Quark Cherry Cake

Ingredients

• 500 g sour cherries
• 0.5 Vanilla pod
• 500 g quark (20% fat)
• 2 Eggs
• a pinch of salt
• 75 g coconut blossom sugar
• 50 g spelt whole-grain semolina
• 30 g almond slivers
• 1 tbsp butter
• powdered erythritol sugar

Instructions

1. 1.

   Wash and pit the sour cherries. Split the vanilla pod lengthwise and scrape out the seeds. Drain the quark well.

2. 2.

   Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites with salt into stiff peaks. Whisk the yolks and coconut blossom sugar with a hand mixer until thick and creamy. Fold in the vanilla seeds, quark, and semolina. Gently fold in the meringue and then the cherries.

3. 3.

   Pour the batter into a greased loaf pan and sprinkle with almonds. Bake in a preheated oven at 160 °C (fan 140 °C; gas: level 2) for 65 minutes. Cover the cake if it darkens too much. Dust with powdered erythritol sugar before serving.