Cheesecake with Mandarins (Käsekuchen mit Mandarinen)

Ingredients

Dough:

• 380 g Flour
• 3 tsp Baking powder
• 100 g Margarine
• 2 Eggs
• 180 g Sugar
• 1 packet Vanilla sugar

Cheese filling:

• 4 Eggs
• 250 g Sugar
• 2 packet Vanilla pudding powder
• 150 ml Sunflower oil
• 1 kg Low-fat quark
• 250 ml Milk
• 1 Lemon (juice and zest)
• 3 cans Mandarins

Glaze:

• 2 packet Clear cake glaze
• Mandarin juice (from the cans)

Equipment

• KitchenAid Artisan 5KSM175PS stand mixer

Instructions

1. 1.
   Dough:
2. 2.
   Quickly work all the ingredients for the dough into a shortcrust dough. If the dough is relatively soft, put it in the fridge briefly and let it rest.
3. 3.
   Then roll it out onto a baking tray lined with baking paper and press up an edge.

Cheese filling:

1. 4.
   Preheat the oven (200°C conventional (top/bottom heat))
2. 5.
   Drain the mandarins well in a sieve and catch the juice to use for the glaze later.
3. 6.
   Beat the eggs and sugar until fluffy.
4. 7.
   Then beat in the vanilla pudding powder, oil, quark, milk and lemon (juice and zest) until you have a creamy mixture.
5. 8.
   Next, spread the cheese filling evenly over the cake base and top with the mandarin pieces.
6. 9.
   Bake the cake in the preheated oven for approx. 35-40 min. and then let it cool completely.

Glaze:

1. 10.
   Once the cheesecake has cooled, the glaze can be applied. To do this, boil up the cake glaze according to the packet instructions (use the mandarin juice as the liquid - if there isn't enough, please top up with water) and quickly spread it evenly over the cheesecake.
2. 11.
   Tip: Cut into pieces, the cake can be frozen very well.