Small crumb cake with fruit and quark

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 300 g flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 150 g sugar
• 140 g butter, soft
• 1 egg(s)
• 300 g fruit, of your choice
• 250 g quark
• 20 g cornstarch
• 50 g sugar
• 1 egg(s)
• ½ tsp vanilla powder
• e.g. butter, for the mold

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 50 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 10 minutes

For the 18/20 cm springform pan; with fruit of your choice; also suitable for baking beginners and without a mixer

First, mix the flour with the baking powder and sugar. Then add the softened/room-temperature butter and the egg and knead everything together. You can do this with a dough hook, but a fork or your hands are fine. Grease a small springform pan (18 or 20 cm in diameter) with a little butter and crumble in about 2/3 of the dough, pressing it firmly into a rimmed base. Now preheat the oven to 180-200°C. For the filling, mix the quark with the cornstarch, sugar, egg, and vanilla powder until smooth. You can also use a mixer (with the beaters) for this, but a simple whisk is sufficient. Now spread the quark cream on the base and smooth it out slightly. Prepare the fruit accordingly and spread it on the quark, crumble the remaining dough over it, and place the cake in the oven. Check the cake after about 40-45 minutes of baking time – but it’s usually only done after about 50 minutes, and the crumble topping will begin to brown slightly. It’s best to let the cake cool in the oven with the oven door half-open, so it won’t collapse. Variations: Instead of cornstarch, you can also use 0.5 sachets of vanilla pudding powder – but then omit the vanilla powder. Instead of vanilla powder, you can also flavor the quark with a little lemon zest. Low-fat quark works just as well as cream quark – but please drain off any whey that has separated first. You can use any fruit: * Canned fruit such as cherries, apricots, gooseberries, or similar; drain well. * Fresh fruit (e.g., 2 apples or about 2 handfuls of plums/gooseberries/cherries, or 1 large pear), peeled, cored/stoned if necessary, and cut into pieces if desired.