German cheesecake with raisins

Name: German cheesecake with raisins (Käsekuchen mit Rosinen)
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 65 g/2½ oz/⅓ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 250 g/9 oz/2¼ cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 100 g/3½ oz/¾ cup raisins; 25 ml/5 tsp almond liqueur; 100 g/3½ oz/scant ½ cup butter, softened; 100 g/3½ oz/½ cup caster sugar; 2 tsp vanilla extract or 2 packs vanilla sugar (about 10 g/¼ oz); 2 tsp vanilla extract or 2 packs vanilla sugar (about 10 g/¼ oz); 3 eggs, separated; pinch of salt; 500 g/1¼ lb curd (farmer’s) cheese; 250 ml/9 fl oz/generous 1 cup sour cream; grated rind of 1 lemon; 15 ml/1 tbsp plain flour; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting

Käsekuchen mit Rosinen

Preparation info

Makes
12 slices

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Germany

By Mirko Trenkner

Published 2009

About

So German! This cake is famous all over the world, though in many places you can’t get good curd cheese, so cream cheese is used instead. The cake is really easy to make and tastes fantastic. You can vary the dried fruit if you like – apricots are particularly good in this.

Ingredients

For the base

130 g/4½ oz/generous ½ cup butter
65

Europe
Germany
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas 5. Soak the raisins in the liqueur for 30 minutes. Butter a springform 30cm/12in cake tin (pan).
To make the base of the cake, cream the butter with the sugar, vanilla extract or sugar and salt. Add the flour and rub