Lemon quark cheesecake

Lemon quark cheesecake

This light and luscious lemon cheesecake tastes as good as it looks

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

Cook time

Cook 10 mins

plus chilling

Method

  1. Crush the digestive biscuits and mix with the melted butter. Press into the base of a 20cm springform tin. Chill to firm.
  2. Whisk the light soft cheese with the quark and icing sugar, then fold through zest 2 lemons.
  3. Soak the gelatine sheets in cold water, then melt in the juice 3 lemons over a low heat. Beat into the cheese mix, then spoon on top of the biscuit base. Chill until set.

279 kcalories, protein 12g, carbohydrate 37g, fat 10 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 0g, sugar 31g, salt 0.59 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2010.

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  • 26 August 2012

    sallyw commented on this recipe

    Helen, Have just made the reicipe using a 23cm springform tin, just added more digestives and butter to make the base and follewed the same amount of quatities for the rest of it. At present it is in the fridge setting so fingers crossed :)

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  • 28 August 2012

    Love2munch rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was a real winner when my family came round for Sunday lunch! They couldn't believe it was a low fat topping as it was so delicious! I used a sachet of gelatine in warmed lemon juice as per suggestion and found it an easy recipe to follow. Will definitely make again!

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  • 06 September 2012

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  • 10 September 2012

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  • 20 October 2012

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  • 05 January 2013

    Cornishshar commented on this recipe

    Really good

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  • 17 February 2013

    Littlemissbluestone rated and commented on this recipe

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    This has to be the best cheesecake i have tasted. Simply delicious

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  • 16 March 2013

    michaela commented on this recipe

    @bryan quark is originaly a kind of cheese made from sour milk - the milk (fresh cows milk not long life milk) which went off is kept until the sour milk is settled in a glass or ceramic pots, jars and then is lightly heated (not boiled!) in a casserole, when it starts to make cheese curds you can stir it with a spatula to not to make big curds ( if you were using low fat milk it will be low fat - usually when you have fresh farm milk you take everyday the cream from it and at the end you have low fat milk when there is not anymore crust of a cream creating on the top) and then you sieve it, you can use a sheet of a cotton or flax like the cheesemakers do, and leave it until it dries a little - if you let it drain more the texture won't be so liquid like the people had some problems with it @clairef - on the top of this cheesecake is a very thin lemon peel which is "confit" in a lemon syrup and it got it shape like it's fried in the heat of the simmering sugar

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  • 25 March 2013

    adnilnna1 commented on this recipe

    I changed the quantity marginally as i just had a bit less quark so i added a bit more Philly- had no problem with the outcome.. Added extra lemon as we like it really lemony.. Was absolutely delicious!!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

Cook time

Cook 10 mins

plus chilling

Ingredients

  • 80g digestive biscuits
  • 50g melted butter
  • 200g light soft cheese
  • 500g Quark
  • 200g icing sugar
  • zest 2 lemons , juice of 3
  • 4 gelatine sheets
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279 kcalories, protein 12g, carbohydrate 37g, fat 10 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 0g, sugar 31g, salt 0.59 g

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