Christmas Cake with Quark (Quarkstollen)

⏳ Time

2 hours

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Quark is a German dairy product that is more liquid and homogeneous than the usual cottage cheese; regular cottage cheese should be strained through a sieve and may require a couple of tablespoons of sour cream.

Ingredients

Wheat Flour - 21.2 oz
Baking Powder - 0.5 oz
Sugar - 8.8 oz
Butter - 8.8 oz
Soft Quark - 8.8 oz
Ground Almonds - 7.1 oz
Rum - 7 fl oz
Light Raisins, Seedless - 8.8 oz
Dried ground orange peel - 1.8 oz
Candied Lemon Peel - 1.8 oz
Farm fresh eggs - 2 pieces
Lemon - 1 piece

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Soak the raisins in rum overnight.

Step 2

Beat the soft butter (250 grams) with the sugar, add the eggs, and continue beating. Add the quark, 1 tablespoon of vanilla sugar, lemon juice, and zest, and continue to beat. Mix the flour with the baking powder, sift it over the butter-egg-quark mixture, and knead the dough. First, fold in the almonds, then the candied fruits, and finally the raisins, lightly dusted with flour. There are quite a few additions, so it will take some effort to incorporate them.

Step 3

Divide the dough into 2 parts, shape them into 2 oval loaves, and form them into stollen (the stollen should look like a swaddled baby).

Step 4

Bake for about 1 hour at 356°F. While still warm, generously brush the stollen with melted butter (100 grams) and dust with a thick layer of powdered sugar.