This might just be the most Luxembourgish cake of all time 🇱🇺
Kéistaart — straight from the old Kichechef cookbooks of the 90s.
Made with quark, mascarpone and sour cream, it’s lighter and fluffier than a classic cheesecake.
The original recipe said 1 hour in the oven. Reality? Over 2 😅 Which is exactly why I test these old recipes before sharing them with you.
As part of Kichechef’s 50th anniversary, I’m going back to their 90s cookbooks to see which recipes still hold up today.
For the dough:
250g flour
1 tsp baking powder
A pinch of salt
100g butter, cold
50g sugar
1 egg
2 tbsp cold water
For the filling:
3 eggs
250g Mascarpone
500g Quark (0% fat)
250g sour cream
150g icing sugar
1 sachet vanilla sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch
Lemon zest
Put all the ingredients for the dough in a food processor and blitz to a dough.
Put the dough into a greased and floured 30cm Springform tin and spread out with your hands, so that it lines the bottom and the sides. Put in the fridge for 30 minutes while preparing the filling.
Preheat the oven to 180°C top bottom heat.
For the filling: separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff and set aside.
Beat the mascarpone, quark, sour cream, icing sugar, vanilla sugar, cornstard and lemon zest together. Fold through the egg whites until smooth.
Pour the filling into the cold tin.
Put the cheesecake in the oven and immediately reduce the heat to 150°C top bottom heat. Bake for 2 hours.
After 2 hours, turn off the oven and leave the cake inside for another 10 minutes, before taking out.
Put on a wire rack and leave to completely cool for 3 hours before putting in the fridge. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours before unmolding.
TIP: This cake keeps in the fridge for 4 days.
