Creamy German Cheesecake with Strawberries

Creamy German Cheesecake with strawberries, that’s what you will get today. You may ask what German cheesecake is compared to American cheesecake? The main differences are that you use quark or curd cheese instead of only cream cheese and you have a pie crust to keep it all together and not your typical cookie crust. Do you want to give this cheesecake a try? The version you see below is the creamiest of them all. You can eat it plain or serve it, as I did, with a strwaberry topping. If you rather try some other, this is more traditional cream cheesecake with blueberries a no refined sugar, this one with apples and caramel, this one is the traditional Japanese, or a no-bake with limes.But let’s go back to this traditional German cheesecake. Recently I don’t seem to have a lot of luck with recipes I plan to present on this blog, usually I have to try them several times before I finally end up with something I am happy with. This cheese cake was no exception. I was lured into the promises on Pinterest telling me that this was assumedly the best German cheesecake ever. Hah, I should have stayed with my precious recipe from the start. I tried several to realize that none of them compared to my beloved recipe. As stated, you can east the cheesecake plain or serve it with caramel sauce or any other topping you prefer, but I like my cakes to be juicy and fruity, hence the add of the strawberries. I cut some strawberries and also made a very simple strawberry sauce by processing fresh strawberries with a little bit of sugar.

Have you ever considered putting a cheesecake inside a pie crust? I don’t know why, but this is the most common thing to do in Germany. To me it makes sense, to keep it all together nicely, you just add a thing layer of pie crust. So no cookie crust for a German cheesecake. And then you need curd cheese, I hope you can find it somewhere. If you have an Aldi or Lidl close-by, you may get lucky, it is called quark and should be found in the dairy section. You may also have a chance in the Slavic section, it will be called tvorog. I believe the consistency to be closer to farmer’s cheese, but it is still better than regular cream cheese. If you know of places where to get it, let me know.

So if you are adventerous enough, how about giving this classic cake a try? You will have a pie crust as a base, a very creamy center due to the fact that you are using quark or curd cheese instead of regular cream cheese, and you get a super delicious strawberry topping, consisting of two ingredients, fresh strawberries and a little bit of sugar. Why not give this German version a chance?

Credit: Adapted from Bake to the roots