Ingredients:

• 1.5lb of fresh farmers cheese (quark)
• 4 eggs
• 3.5oz of butter
• 3/4 cup of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of semolina flour + a bit for dusting the baking pan
• Juice of half of small lemon
• 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla sugar

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients:

   

2. Turn on oven on 375F to warm it up. Melt butter in a bowl (I used microwave):

   

3. Grease baking pan with some of the butter:

   

4. Dust baking pan with semolina flour:

   

5. Separate egg whites from egg yolks, put whites into the mixer bowl:

   

6. And yolks into the separate bowl:

   

7. Add half of the sugar to the bowl with yolks and mix it with yolks using spoon:

   

8. Start beating egg whites with white attachment, once doubled in volume add rest of the sugar, portion by portion, then continue to beat until foam is thick and stable:

   

9. While whites are beating blend farmers cheese until homogeneous (I use deep bowl and hand blender, but you can use food processor for this and several next steps):

   

10. Add egg yolks and sugar mix:

    

11. And melted butter:

    

12. Mix good:

    

13. Squeeze juice of one lemon in:

    

14. Add vanilla sugar:

    

15. And 2 table spoons of semolina flour and mix:

    

16. Beaten egg whites should look like this by now:

    

17. Carefully mix beaten whites into the cheese batter with vertical slicing movements, portion by portion:

    

18. Work through the rest of the beaten whites and you will get tender fluffy cheese batter like this:

    

19. Carefully move batter to the baking pan:

    

20. And even it up with a spatula:

    

21. Then put to the oven warmed up to 375F for 15 mins, then turn temperature to 350F and continue baking for 45 mins more:

    

22. Then turn the heat off and let cake cool down till room temperature inside the oven, don’t open the oven; once cooled remove cake from the baking pan and put to the fridge (over night sounds good);

    

23. Next morning cake is ready, slice it up:

    

24. And serve for breakfast or dessert with coffee and tea: