DELICIOUS PUMPKIN CHEESE CAKE

Hello Everybody
It is PUMPKIN TIME again!!! So let us bake a pumpkin cake.
Today I will be showing you one of my family favourite recipe
for MY DELICIOUS PUMPKIN CHEESE CAKE made from quark oder dripped dry yoghurt to get the mass.
I use yoghurt/quark because I personally find that soft cheese is lighter for the stomach to digest before dinner.

So let us start baking!!!
Enjoy baking!!!
BON APPETITE!! Enjoy eating MY PUMPKIN CHEESE CAKE and …..
DONT FORGET TO GIVE ME A THUMBS UP!!!



1)Prepare the baking cake form. Brush the form with margarine or butter then dust with bread crumbles and set aside.

2) In a clean bowl mix
250gms quark(or dripped dry yogurt)
200gms steamed and mashed pumpkin (you can use as much as 250gms)
3 eggs size 'M' lightly beaten
125gms sugar
half a cup of milk (125ml)
75ml vegetable oil
2-3 tbsp custard powder oder cornstarch
stir and mix well and place the mixture in the fridge while you prepare the cake base pastry

3) Preheat the oven at 175C top and bottom heat

4) Prepare the pastry base for the cake.
In a fresh bowl add
250gm sieved flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp Vanille sugar
100g raw sugar
125g cold butter or margarine
Using your fingers combine all the ingredients to make into loose crumbles then add
1 lightly beaten egg size 'M'
combine into crumble and then pour these ready crumbles into the cake form.
Press the crumbles towards the rim of the baking form to get about a 2 to 3 cm edge and then press the rest on to the base of the form.(This method saves you from the hassle of rolling out the pastry and you use the complete pastry crumbles)

5) Take out the pumpkin yoghurt mixture from the fridge and add
the spices like
1/4 tsp Cinnamon powder
1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg powder
give it a quick stir.
Pour the whole mixture into the baking form lined with the cake pastry.

6) Bake the cake at the 3rd lowest level for 40-45 Minutes at 175C
If you see that the surface is a bit burned, cover the cake with aluminum folio.
Once it is bake, turn off the heat, tilt the oven cover but keep the cake in the oven for another 5 minutes, then remove from oven.

7) Cool the cake and then place in fridge before cutting. This cake like my GERMAN CHEESE CAKE is best serve the next day.

BON APPETITE!!!

STAY TUNED!!! MORE EXCITING RECIPES COMING UP.!!