Apricot Quark Schnitten
Ingrediënten
Ingredients for 1 Cake Pan or Baking Frame
- Basic sponge cake for schnitten double recipe
- Apricot marmalade for brushing
- 2 lbs 900 g Quark or other fresh, white cheese
- 18 oz 500 g Mascarpone, or sour cream
- 1 cup 120 g Confectioner’s sugar
- 3 tbsp 4 cl Rum
- Lemon zest
- 4 tsp 20 g Vanilla sugar
- Raisins
- 1¼ cups 300 ml Orange juice
- 4 tbsp Apricot marmalade
- 12 Sheets gelatin
- 4¼ cups 1l Whipped cream
- About 4½ lbs 2 kg preserved apricots (see p. 188 or from a can)
- Confectioner’s sugar for dusting
Instructies
- Prepare the sponge cake batter for schnitten according to the basic recipe, and bake two cake bases.
- Brush one cake base with warmed apricot marmalade.
- Place a baking frame around this cake (or place in a deep cake pan).
- Mix the quark, mascarpone or sour cream, confectioner’s sugar, rum, lemon zest, vanilla sugar, and raisins in a mixing bowl.
- Warm the orange juice.
- Add cold water to the gelatin, remove excess water, dissolve in orange juice, and stir into the quark mixture.
- Now mix in the apricot marmalade.
- Finally, fold the whipped cream and apricots into the quark cream and fill the pan.
- Place the second cake on top and chill for 4 hours.
- Cut with a serrated knife dipped in hot water and dust each piece with confectioner’s sugar.
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