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Small Russian Plucked Cake

5 from 4 votes
Course Dinner
Cuisine European
Servings 8 people

Ingredients
 

For the dark dough

  • 1 tsp Chia seeds (ground)
  • 50 ml Water
  • 200 g Flour
  • 100 g Butter
  • 100 g Sugar
  • 20 g Cocoa
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1 pinch Salt

For the cheese mass

  • 300 g Double cream cheese
  • 250 g Quark (40%)
  • 80 g Sugar
  • 1 packet Custard powder
  • 1 packet Orange or lemon zest (optional)

Instructions
 

The dark batter

  • Mix the ground chia seeds with the water and leave to soak for 5 minutes. (You can use a small egg instead.)
  • Meanwhile, measure the remaining ingredients and pour them into a bowl.
  • Add the swollen chia seeds and make a kneading dough.
  • Line the bottom of a size 20 tin with baking paper and grease the edge of the tin with butter.
  • Spread 2/3 of the kneaded dough evenly in the mold, press firmly and pull up an edge of 2-3 cm. Put the rest aside. (Now you can preheat the oven to 180 ° O / U heat or 160 ° convection.)

The cheese mass

  • Put the cream cheese in a bowl and stir briefly, add the quark and mix well.
  • Add the sugar, stir in and do the same with the pudding powder and, if necessary, with the orange / lemon zest.
  • Beat the mixture a little airy on a high setting.
  • Place the cheese mixture in the springform pan on top of the dough and distribute it evenly.

finish

  • Crumble the remaining 1/3 of the dark dough and spread it over the cheese mixture.
  • Now bake the cake on the wire rack in the lower third of the oven for an hour. The cheese mass should have got a little bit of color.
  • Take the small Russian plucked cake out of the oven, place in the tin on a rack and let it cool down.
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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