American-style cheesecake

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 200 g biscuits (wholemeal biscuits)
• 90 g butter, liquid
• 1 pinch of cinnamon
• 600 g cream cheese
• 400 g quark
• 200 g sour cream
• 225 g sugar
• 3 packets of vanilla sugar
• some flavoring (vanilla flavor)
• 5 eggs

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour 20 minutes

American Cheesecake

For the base, finely grind the biscuits and place them in a bowl. Add melted butter and a little cinnamon and knead well (the base will be very crumbly, but that’s how it should be). Grease a springform pan and add the crumbs. Press them firmly onto the base. Form a raised edge out of about 1/3 of the crumbs and press them down firmly. Place the springform pan in the refrigerator to make the base firmer. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Fill a deep baking tray with a finger’s thickness of water and place it in the oven (the steam from the water makes the cake even creamier and prevents it from cracking; at least, that’s always been the case for me). For the cream, beat the eggs with sugar, vanilla sugar, and vanilla extract until frothy. Gradually add the cream cheese, quark, and sour cream, beating vigorously until the mixture is nice and creamy. Remove the springform pan from the refrigerator. Spread the cream on the base and smooth it out. Carefully place the dish in the oven and bake at 180°C top/bottom heat or 170°C fan-assisted oven for 50-60 minutes. If the top starts to get dark, simply cover with aluminum foil. After baking, turn off the oven and let the cake rest for a good 30 minutes. Then take it out and let it cool completely. The cake is super creamy, very quick to prepare and not quite as heavy as the American originals thanks to the quark (I used low-fat quark). If you like, you can replace the quark with cream cheese. You can also replace the double cream cheese with a low-fat version if you like. The sugar content can be reduced if you like, but I found it to be just right! The cake tastes best when it has had a day to sit.