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Alsatian Cheese cake (Käsküeche)
Alsatian Cheese cake (Käsküeche)
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A French cheese cake from the region Alsace where the cake is called käsküeche. The bottom is made like a pie bottom and not like the usual cheese cake bottom with biscuits crumbles. It is big, fluffy, and less sweet than the American or English versions. You can add some citron peel in the cake to have a different taste.

Ingredient List for 10 servings:
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200 gr Flour
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60 gr Butter
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1 pinch Salt
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7 gr Vanilla sugar
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100 ml Milk
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1 Egg
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1 pinch Baking powder
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25 gr Sugar

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3 Egg yellows
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3 Egg whites
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1 tablespoon Flour
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500 gr Cream cheese
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1 tablespoon Vanilla sugar
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50 ml Whipping cream
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1 tabslespoon Icing sugar
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100 gr Sugar

Oven temperature:
210 degrees Celsius
Instructions:
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Cut the butter in cubes and pour it in a bowl. Add the flower, sugar, vanilla sugar, egg, salt and milk and mix it all well to a pie dough.
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Place the dough in the fridge for thirty minutes.

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Preheat the oven at 210 degrees Celsius.
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Take out the pie dough from the fridge, roll it out and cover the bottom and edges of a pie form approx twenty six centimeter in diameter. Pick the bottom several times with a fork.
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In a bowl stir together the vanilla sugar together with the whip cream.
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Add the egg yellows, cream cheese, flour, half of the sugar and mix well.
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In another bowl whip the egg whites to a hard foam while adding the rest of the sugar at the same time.
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Mix gently the egg white foam with the cream cheese mixture.
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Pour the filling on the pie bottom, and place the cake in the middle of the oven. After ten minutes lower the heat to 180 degrees Celsius and let the cake rest in the oven twenty five more minutes.
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Take out the cake and let it cool down. Before serving the cake sprinkle the icing sugar on top of it.

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This recipe is from France , Alsace.
This is one out of hundreds different varieties of the Alsatian bredele cookies you that you will find in Alsace during the Christmas holidays. These hazelnuts cookies have a crispy surface and a slightly chewy interior. The best part is that the cookies can be prepared in advanced, though they can be kept for weeks in a cookie box.
Homemade spinach and egg pie that is easy to prepare. With this recipe you can make a healthy tasteful pie that can be serve warm directly from the oven together with a green salad, or it fits cold to bring on a picnic.
The lammele is a soft cake in a shape of a lamb, and is served during the eastern day. This cake can be found in the region Alsace in France, some parts of Germany, and Austria. This cake is a typical symbol of eastern for christan.
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