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Apricot Quark Schnitten

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Ingredients

Ingredients for 1 Cake Pan or Baking Frame

  • Basic sponge cake for schnitten double recipe
  • Apricot marmalade for brushing
  • 2 lbs 900 g Quark or other fresh, white cheese
  • 18 oz 500 g Mascarpone, or sour cream
  • 1 cup 120 g Confectioner’s sugar
  • 3 tbsp 4 cl Rum
  • Lemon zest
  • 4 tsp 20 g Vanilla sugar
  • Raisins
  • 1¼ cups 300 ml Orange juice
  • 4 tbsp Apricot marmalade
  • 12 Sheets gelatin
  • 4¼ cups 1l Whipped cream
  • About 4½ lbs 2 kg preserved apricots (see p. 188 or from a can)
  • Confectioner’s sugar for dusting

Instructions

  • Prepare the sponge cake batter for schnitten according to the basic recipe, and bake two cake bases.
  • Brush one cake base with warmed apricot marmalade.
  • Place a baking frame around this cake (or place in a deep cake pan).
  • Mix the quark, mascarpone or sour cream, confectioner’s sugar, rum, lemon zest, vanilla sugar, and raisins in a mixing bowl.
  • Warm the orange juice.
  • Add cold water to the gelatin, remove excess water, dissolve in orange juice, and stir into the quark mixture.
  • Now mix in the apricot marmalade.
  • Finally, fold the whipped cream and apricots into the quark cream and fill the pan.
  • Place the second cake on top and chill for 4 hours.
  • Cut with a serrated knife dipped in hot water and dust each piece with confectioner’s sugar.
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Course; Fruit / Tarts
Cuisine; Austria / European