Simple cheesecake with dates

AUTHOR
Pat Ware
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3 2
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour
  • 150 g dried dates (without stone)
  • 1 Organic Lemon
  • 5 Eggs (Gr. M)
  • 750 g cream quark (40 % fat)
  • 200 g Whipped cream
  • 75 g + 75 g sugar
  • 2 packages Vanilla sauce powder
  • 175 g Nut kernel mixture (e.g. hazelnuts, walnuts, cashew nuts)
  • 8 TABLESPOONS Maple syrup

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Grease springform pan (26 cm Ø) and dust with flour. Roughly chop dates. Rinse lemon hot and dab dry.

  2. 2

    Finely grate the skin. Halve the lemon, squeeze 1 half. Separate the eggs.

  3. 3

    Cream egg yolk, quark, cream, 75 g sugar, sauce powder, lemon peel and 2 tbsp lemon juice with the whisks of the mixer. Beat the egg whites until stiff, adding 75 g of sugar. Add dates to the quark mixture.

  4. 4

    Pour into the mould and smooth it down. Bake in a hot oven for 55-60 minutes.

  5. 5

    For the syrup, roughly chop the nuts and roast them in a pan without fat. Remove and let cool briefly. Mix with maple syrup.

  6. 6

    Carefully remove the cake from the edge with a knife. First let it cool down in the slightly opened oven for about 15 minutes, then take it out and let it cool down. Add nut syrup.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
310 kcal
CARBS
27 g
FATS
17 g
PROTEINS
9 g