Almond Cheese Cake with Cherries

Ingredients

• 300 g flour
• 30 g fresh yeast
• 60 g sugar
• 100 ml lukewarm milk
• 1 egg
• 75 g baking margarine
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 tsp orange zest
• flour for dusting
• 300 g almond flakes
• 300 g sugar
• 400 g whipping cream
• 100 g cherry topping
• 1 kg low-fat quark
• 500 g mascarpone
• 300 g sugar
• 5 eggs
• 2 packets vanilla pudding powder (for cooking/baking)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Combine all dough ingredients in a bowl and knead with the hand mixer attachments until smooth. Cover and let rise in a warm place for about 50 minutes, until doubled in volume.

2. 2.

   For the topping, combine sugar, almonds and cream in a pot and simmer for about 10 minutes. Remove from heat, chop cherries and fold them in.

3. 3.

   In a bowl whisk all cream ingredients together until smooth. Roll out dough on floured surface to sheet size and place on a parchment-lined (or greased) baking tray. Spread the quark mixture over the dough, then distribute the almond mixture on top. Bake in preheated oven at 175 °C for about 70 minutes, covering with foil if necessary. Cool and cut into pieces to serve with coffee.