Cheesecake with plums and crumbles

grain-free | gluten-free

Recipe by: Johanna from glutenfreierezeptwelt.de

Ingredients for the gluten-free mirabelle plum cheesecake

For 1 cake approx. 18 cm in diameter

For the base

• 70 g cold butter
• 100 g Ruut cassava flour
• 25 g sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tbsp water

For the quark filling

• 500 g quark
• 100 g cream cheese
• 2 eggs, medium
• 80 g sugar
• 1 tsp grated lemon zest
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 30 g cornstarch
• 250 g mirabelle plums

For the crumble topping

• 25 g cassava flour
• 25 g ground almonds
• 15 g sugar
• 25 g butter

How to make a gluten-free cheesecake with crumble topping

Tip :) Always use a kitchen scale for our recipes and for weighing the flour.

Base

1. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and work them into a smooth dough with your hands.
2. Wrap the dough in cling film and leave it to rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
3. Roll out the dough a little on a well-floured work surface and line the base of a springform pan (18 cm in diameter) with it, forming a small rim. The dough will tear a little as you put it in. Simply press it back together at the end.
4. Keep the pan in the fridge until you continue.

Filling

1. Put all the ingredients except the mirabelle plums in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric hand mixer until smooth.
2. Pour the mixture into the cake pan.
3. Wash the mirabelle plums, halve them and remove the stones. Arrange the halves on the cake, tilted slightly at an angle. The plums should be sunk about halfway into the quark mixture.

Crumble topping

Preheat the oven to 180 °C top and bottom heat.

1. Knead all the ingredients together in a bowl. Don't knead for too long – rub the ingredients together rather than kneading them, so that you get irregular crumbs.
2. Sprinkle the crumbs over the mirabelle plums and press down lightly.

Bake the cake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes. Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool completely in the pan before cutting.

Tip:

If you bring the quark and cream cheese to room temperature before using them, the quark filling will be easier to beat into a smooth mixture.