Cheesecake
 
For the dough:
1 1/4 cup of white flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 cup sugar
6 Tablespoon butter
1 egg

This makes the dough for the bottom of a 9-10inch springform pan. Oil the bottom and sides of the pan before putting the dough in, making an even layer at the bottom of the pan.

The quark mixture goes as follows:

2 lbs of quark (I use lowfat)
1 cup of sugar
6 Tablespoons butter
3 eggs
2/3 cup flour

This needs to be mixed thoroughly, pour on top of the dough. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, bake for about 60 min. It needs to come out when the edges turn a slight brown.
 
Christstollen
 
2 cups raisins
1/3 cup rum
4 cups flour
4 teaspoon yeast
2/3 cup sugar
5 Tablespoons milk (warm)
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1/4 lb quark
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon each of cardamom, cinnamon, and ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
2/3 cup candied lemon peel
2/3 cup candied orange peel
1 1/4 cups of slivered almonds
5/8 cup ground almonds

And: 5 Tablespoons butter
confectioner's sugar

Put raisins into bowl, pour rum over it and soak them overnight.

Put flour in another bowl, make a hole in the middle, put yeast in it along with one teaspoon of sugar and the warm milk. Mix with a fork carefully, cover bowl with towel and let rise 15 min. Add other ingredients except for dried fruit and almonds. Mix with mixer at low speed at first, then at high speed for 5 minutes. Cover and let rise until it's gotten substantially bigger.

Take dough and mix it with almonds and dried fruits on a flour-covered surface. Form dough into a "Stollen". Again, cover and let rise until it's gotten substantially bigger.

Preheat oven to 430 degrees, put dough in oven, bake at 355 degrees for about 60 minutes.

Melt the 5 Tablespoons of butter. When cake comes out of the oven, brush butter on the warm cake immediately. Let cake cool, then cover cake with confectioner's sugar.

Put cake in aluminum foil, let stand for 1 week before it's eaten.