Well, I’ve pretty much exhausted the search for quark. Tried 7 different locations and nothing other than the stuff I mentioned. There is a dutch grocery about an hour away but that will wait until I happen to be in the area. So damn you who have easy access for cheap!
Okay, so cottage cheese is an option(or making it I see and which I might try). What else might work? What about ricotta? Occurred to me as I was searching the grocery stores for quark.
This looks awesome, bruder!
I think strained greek yogurt (ie. yogurt cheese) would be a great sub for quark. Very high in protein, and strained it has the consistency of soft cream cheese.
My mother makes a ricotta cheesecake every year at Christmas. I have the recipe locked away somewhere. Maybe I’ll dig it out and post here or in “La Cucina” thread.
@SteelyD
Wanna give the greek yoghurt version a try?
Please, feel free to post your mum’s ricotta cheesecake both in you “La Cucina” thread and here.
Sometimes, redundancy can be a good thing 
@MrZsasz
Wanna give the greek yoghurt version a try? >_>
How did the Chocolate one turn out?
LR
Well, “Magerquark” is simply the term for low-fat Quark or Curd Cheese. ( Quark (dairy product) - Wikipedia )
I didn’t know it’s such uncommon in the US, you can find it in every supermarket in Germany.
The Cheesecake looks pretty awesome, reminds me a bit of the Leangain’s Cheesecake
[quote]London Runner wrote:
How did the Chocolate one turn out?
LR[/quote]
Quite fine.
I simply replaced vanilla pudding powder with its chocolate counterpart, dito citrus aroma with rum (although I only used 1.5 ml, since it’s pretty aromatic). I also added 50g of ground bittersweet chocolate (42.5% F, 35.5% C, 9.4% P).
But I like my original cheesecake variant better.
[quote]FattyFat wrote:
Quite fine.
I simply replaced vanilla pudding powder with its chocolate counterpart, dito citrus aroma with rum (although I only used 1.5 ml, since it’s pretty aromatic). I also added 50g of ground bittersweet chocolate (42.5% F, 35.5% C, 9.4% P).
But I like my original cheesecake variant better.
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I’m going to see if I can invent some variations and post them up here. I saw a banana pudding, but I don’t have banana protein at the moment, and I haven’t seen banana essence. I’ve still got 90% of the one I made the other day, so it should last a while.
LR
Mash up 2-4 bananas into your quark and go for it. Should be enough, since bananas are pretty aromatic and mix quite well with quark.
Shouldn’t be too hard on the benefit:shit ratio.
@FattyFat, I’ll shoot a PM your way. =)
Tomorrow I’m going to score some light syrup and will try another variation.
Okay, I tried the forest fruits edition. It’s okay… but not the same as citrus. And I fucked up my citrus edition, it’s too sweet… damnit. I came to the conclusion that the quark cake should be fresh. I’ll make another badge this weekend, so I’ll try lime.
Okay, I tried the forest fruits edition. It’s okay… but not the same as citrus. And I fucked up my citrus edition, it’s too sweet… damnit. I came to the conclusion that the quark cake should be fresh. I’ll make another badge this weekend, so I’ll try lime.
This cheesecake is going to take over! The biggest thing in Nutrition since the Anaconda protocol. Just ordered some Banana protein Fatty, so I might make the Banana one this weekend.
LR
Good going, guys, good going.
Maybe we should do some dissemination to push it. >_>
I’ve mailed my recipe to a few friends, just for shit and giggles. Lo and behold, they liked it - and they’re neither ‘fitness’ buffs, nor really physique-oriented.
But they dig the taste, texture and - most of all - the ease of preparation.
[quote]FattyFat wrote:
I’ve mailed my recipe to a few friends, just for shit and giggles. Lo and behold, they liked it - and they’re neither ‘fitness’ buffs, nor really physique-oriented.
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Of course, the irony is that it’s called “Fatty’s Cheesecake”!
After reading this i’ve been looking for quark with no luck. Wholefoods had it at $5 for 224g, no good. Making it from scratch seems a litte too involved. Where can I get this in the States? I don’t want any ricotta/cottagecheese/creamcheese substitute.
Question, is Crème Fraiche the same as Quark?
NO.
LR
[quote]London Runner wrote:
NO.
LR[/quote]
I realized that right after I typed it and went back and edited it. But it looks like my edit didn’t come through. What I did say was that Fromage Frais was close instead of Creme Frais.
I may try to do it with Greek yogurt this weekend. Still pricey but I figure I could be the tester for this one.
And my wife has an addiction.
And for people who want to try it with light syrups… don’t. You’ll have to use too much for the taste, and too much light syrup is too much sucralose. I was tripping all night, lol.
[quote]MrZsasz wrote:
I may try to do it with Greek yogurt this weekend. Still pricey but I figure I could be the tester for this one.[/quote]
I honestly think you’ll be left with mush. It’ll be a good experiment though.
LR