Raisin & Quark Cheese Bread

If you are planning to make a glutenfree High Tea this soft, cakelike bread has to be amongst the other goodies you serve. It's full of flavour and all it needs is a bit of butter to make your tastebuds do the Harlem Shake in your mouth. Yeah, sorry, I had to go there! :-)

Anyway, it's a great bread to serve on the Easter breakfast table too and my kids like it very much. The raisins add extra fibers that my kids need so it's a win-win situation actually. It's not a healthy kind of bread due to the amount of sugar in it, but ever seen a healthy High Tea? ;-)

Now doesn't that look delicious?

For those of you who have no clue what Quark Cheese is (it's very common in The Netherlands): 
Quark is a type of fresh cheese. It is made by warming soured milk until the desired degree of denaturation of milk proteins is met, and then strained. Dictionaries usually translate it as curd cheese or cottage cheese, although most commercial varieties of cottage cheese are made with rennet, whereas traditional quark is not. It is soft, white and unaged, similar to some types of fromage frais. It is distinct from ricotta because ricotta (Italian: "recooked") is made from scalded whey. It is quite similar to the Indian paneer. Quark usually has no salt added. (Wikipedia)

Ingredients:

• 500 grams (1 lb and 2 oz) of glutenfree all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 200 grams (7 oz) of white caster sugar
• Grated lemon zest (I used that of a whole lemon, the original recipe says 1 teaspoon, but you can hardly taste that)
• 8-10 grams (0.25 oz) of vanilla sugar 
• 3 eggs
• half a teaspoon of salt (I use iodized salt)
• 130 grams (about 4.5 oz) of melted butter
• 350 grams (12 oz) of Quark Cheese. 
• 350 grams (12 oz) of mixed raisins

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees centigrade (325 degrees fahrenheit). 
2. Mix the all purpose flour in a large bowl with baking powder, caster sugar and vanilla sugar. 
3. Add all the other ingredients to the flour and sugar mix and knead well. 
4. Butter a baking tin and transfer the dough into the tin. 
5. Bake until golden brown in about 70 minutes. 
6. Take the bread from the tin when done and let it cool on a wire rack. Dust with powdered sugar before serving. Cut into slices and serve with (salted) butter or maybe some marmelade.

Enjoy! 

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