German Quark Crumb Bars

Submitted by Mom2Rose

"These bars are delicious! They have a crumbly topping and a cheesecake-like filling on the inside - what's not to like!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 1 pan

ingredients

• QUARK FILLING

• 16 ounces Quark
• 1 egg
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄2 cup dried cherries (or dried blueberries, raisins)

• CRUMB TOPPING

• 1 cup butter, room temperature
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 3 1⁄2 cups white flour

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F Mix the ingredients under the Quark Filling section and set aside.
2. Blend Crumb Topping ingredients with a pastry blender (or 2 knives in a criss-cross pattern).
3. Measure out 2 1/2 cups of crumbs. Pat into a greased 13x9 glass baking dish. Pat crumbs up about 1/2 inch up sides of baking dish.
4. Bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes.
5. Pour quark mixture over baked crust. Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture evenly over quark layer. Pat down very lightly.
6. Bake 30-35 minutes. Cool before cutting.
7. STORAGE: Keep refrigerated but bring to room temperature before serving.

Reviews

[komcdonald]

I thought I had already reviewed this! My German boyfriend is constantly asking me to make these! Easier than making a whole cheesecake and it tastes delicious. I always leave out the dried fruit, but I do add about a tablespoon of lemon juice to the filling. Last time I made only half of the recipe and it was perfect for a 9 inch pie plate.( I found with a whole batch it was even too much for a 9 x 13 pan and I ended up having to throw some away.) The best part is my hard to please German family- in- law loves it. : )

 

[Donovan T.]

I Made these for my German Class, i made double thet original amount and i still only got one everyone loved them!! I had people stopping in the halls asking for one! I loved them! 10/10

 

[DoubletheGarlic]

I went a bit autumnal with these, snazzing them up with a layer of pumpkin pie filling! And, preserving the ratios, I made the "crumb topping" out of a kind of graham cracker (digestive biscuit), butter and (a little less) brown sugar. AND, because of the 3 comments about excess amounts of topping, I increased the Quark (and sugar) by half (I forgot to incr. the egg, but it still turned out). Even though I took some liberties with the recipe, our family thinks we are still qualified to give these bars a 5-star!!! They were YUM.

 

[Muffin Goddess]

These went over really well at work -- I dropped them off on the community tech table, and they disappeared pretty darn quick! There was a lot of crust in comparison to the quark filling, as someone already pointed out, but everyone seemed to like the shortbreadiness (?!? - lol) of the crust part, so no complaints there. I didn't have any dried cherries that were just that, but I had a mixture with dried blueberries, raspberries and cherries together, so that's what I used for the fruit. Oh, and I had a little bit of some frosting left over from another recipe, so I melted it and used it as a drizzle over the top, just so I didn't have to throw away the last couple spoonfuls of frosting,lol. This was a good choice for my first foray into using quark. Very nice bars, thanks for posting! :) Made for The Queens of Quisine for ZWT6

 

[twissis]

Made as written for ZWT6 & Oma's Kitchen challenge, these bars are cheesecake heaven! I used raisins I had on-hand, but they were very lrg & dry. So I plumped them in water, used the smaller ones & removed any moisture by pressing them w/paper towels. My magic bullet made quick work of the quark mixture & I folded in the raisins. The crumb topping is also easy to make, but I did feel there was too much of it for the amt of filling. Reducing it by 1/4 would be ideal IMO, except for the egg & I doubt that would matter much. This would also improve the nutritional data. DH was impossibly impatient & made me cut them b4 fully-cooled & properly set after baking - an error I will not repeat. They are company-worthy & will freeze well per to my reserach, but I will leave the fruit out if doing that. We loved these yummy bars, Sarah. Thx for posting the recipe for us. :-)