White Chocolate Cake

This recipe was quite difficult to translate because of one ingredient, quark. This is quite a common dairy product in Europe but is very difficult to find in the USA. I've decided that mascarpone or cream cheese would work quite adequately but will result in a richer cake.

100g white chocolate
100g butter
2dl sugar
150g mascarpone or cream cheese (quark if you can find it)
2 1/2dl flour
juice and zest from half a lemon
2tsb vanilla sugar
1tsb baking powder
1/2tsb salt

Grease and breadcrumb a cake tin with removable edges.

Melt the chocolate and the butter separately.

Mix the sugar and mascarpone until it is an even batter.

Add the melted chocolate and the butter and stir thoroughly.

Stir in the lemon zest and juice.

Mix together all the dry ingredients and add them to the batter a little at a time.

Pour the batter into the cake tin and bake for 25 minutes at 200ºC.

Serve with whipped cream and/or fresh strawberries.


Enjoy!