011 Russian pluck cake

Ingredients (20 pieces/ baking tray):

dough:

• 400 g flour
• 1 packet baking soda
• 4 tablespoons of cacao
• 250 g butter
• 2 egg yolks
• 5-7 tablespoons of cream
• 1 pinch of salt
• 100 g sugar

covering:

• 5 eggs
• 75 g sugar
• 750 g quark/ curd
• 200 g sour cream
• rest of cream
• 2 packets of vanilla pudding powder
• lemon flavor

Mix flour, baking soda and cacao. Cut butter in pieces and add it together with the other ingredients. Knead all into a smooth dough. Wrap it in cling film and let it cool for half an hour.

Separate the eggs. Beat egg-whites and sugar until very stiff. Mix quark, egg yolks, sour cream, cream, pudding powder and lemon flavor until smooth. Put the egg-whites under the quark.

Take two thirds of the dough and roll it out, and put it on a baking tray with baking paper. Put the quark on it. Then take the rest of the dough, pluck it into little pieces and put it on the quark. Let it bake for 40 min at 180°C in a preheated oven. Then let it cool down.