Refreshing quark cake with oranges, kiwi and almond base
Ingredients
Base
- 70 g almonds
- 80 g dates, pitted
- 1 tbsp peanut butter
Filling
- 250 g quark
- 50 g icing sugar
- 1 orange
- 4-5 kiwifruit
- berries, optional
Utensils
- pan
- wooden spatula
- stand mixer
- mixing bowl
- hand mixer
- springform pan
- knife
- sieve
- cutting board
Instructions
Base
- Roast the almonds in a dry pan.
- In a blender, grind to a fine almond paste.
- Add the dates and peanut butter to the almonds.
- Mix everything together until you have a firm dough.
- When the dough is crumbly, add some juice, milk or more peanut butter.
- Spread the batter into a springform pan, lifting up a rim.
- Refrigerate the springform pan for at least 1 hour.
Filling
- Peel the orange, in a stand mixer chop and pass through a sieve.
- Mix the quark with powdered sugar in a bowl.
- Add the orange puree and stir again.
- Spread the quark mixture over the cooled base.
- Put the quark cake back in the fridge.
- Peel the kiwi , halve lengthways and slice thinly.
- Roll up the kiwi slices so they look like roses.
- Top the quark cake with kiwi roses and berries as desired.