Chocolate Crumble Cake with Cherry-Quark Filling

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🍰🍒 Chocolate Crumble Cake with Cherry-Quark Filling 🍫🍒

This chocolate crumble cake is a delightful mix of rich cocoa dough, creamy quark filling, and juicy cherries, finished with crunchy chocolate streusel. A perfect treat for any occasion!

🛒 Ingredients:

For the Dough (Base & Crumbles):

🥣 300 g (2 ½ cups) flour
🧈 150 g (2/3 cup) butter
🍚 150 g (3/4 cup) sugar
🍫 30 g (1/4 cup) cocoa powder
🥚 1 large egg
🥄 ½ packet baking powder (about 1 ½ tsp)

For the Filling:

🍒 1 jar sour cherries (about 680 g / 24 oz, drained)
🍚 100 g (½ cup) sugar
🍦 2 packets vanilla sugar (or 2 tsp vanilla extract)
🥚 3 eggs
🍋 1 tbsp lemon juice
🍮 1 packet vanilla pudding powder (or 40 g cornstarch + 1 tsp vanilla extract)
🥛 500 g (2 cups) quark (or Greek yogurt as a substitute)
🍫 60 g (1/3 cup) chocolate sprinkles
🧂 1 pinch of salt

👩🏼‍🍳 Instructions:

1️⃣ Prepare the Chocolate Crumble Dough:
• Beat butter, egg, and sugar until fluffy.
• Mix flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder, then add to the butter mixture.
• Use a hand mixer to form crumbly dough.
• Press 2/3 of the dough into a greased 26 cm (10-inch) springform pan, forming a 4 cm (1.5-inch) high edge.

2️⃣ Make the Cherry-Quark Filling:
• Beat eggs, sugar, vanilla sugar, lemon juice, and salt until creamy.
• Stir in pudding powder and quark until smooth.
• Fold in cherries and half of the chocolate sprinkles.
• Pour the mixture onto the prepared dough base.

3️⃣ Add the Topping & Bake:
• Crumble the remaining chocolate dough over the filling.
• Sprinkle the rest of the chocolate sprinkles on top.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 175°C (350°F) for about 50 minutes.
• Let the cake cool completely in the pan before serving.