Sin-free cheesecake (Quarkkuchen)

So, last time I made mega calorie mandarin orange cheesecake and today I took my electric whisk and tried a delicious almost sin-free version. Replacing double cream, marscapone cheese and digestive biscuits melted in butter with just one ingredient - quark.

To be honest I  never heard of it until I visited Germany. There it comes in 10%, 20% and 40% fat version. The only one I could find in my local supermarket was 0.5%. 

All the necessary ingredients

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 400g sugar
• Lemon juice
• 1kg quark
• 100g semolina
• 15g baking powder
• 1 tablespoon plain flour

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180C and grease and line a springform tin. Use semolina to line the greased tin (shake it like you're sifting for gold, baby!)
• Separate the egg yolks and whites. Mix the sugar and the yolks until smooth.
• Add the quark, semolina and baking powder to your mixture.  Whisk away until nice and fluffy and foamy.
• Add a little salt to the egg whites and whisk up as if you were making meringues. When it looks like a fluffy white cloud use a large spoon and fold carefully into your main mixing bowl. You need to keep as much air inside the cake mixture as possible.
• Pour into your cake tin and bake for about an hour. Test with a skewer to be sure it is not liquid inside.
• Cool, and place in your fridge. 
• Enjoy with a coffee in the afternoon or an illicit trip to the kitchen after midnight.