Cranberry Cheese Tart with Linzer Pattern

Variation of: Kathi’s Delicious Apple Tart

You will need:
1 package of Kathi’s Delicious Apple Tart
For the dough: 1 egg, 5 oz (130g) butter or margarine
For the filling: 14 oz (400g) cranberry?s, 3 eggs, 9 oz (250g) curd cheese (quark), 7 oz (200g) sour cream, 1,5 oz (40g) sugar

Baking Pan:
springform pan Ø 10 inch (Ø 26cm)

Baking Time:
approx. 60 minutes



Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 360°F (180°C). Generously grease and lightly flour the springform pan.
2. Prepare baking mix for the dough as explained in step 1 on the backside of the baking mix.
3. Blanch the fresh cranberry’s in hot sugar water for a minute. Thereafter, drain them well.
4. In a new bowl, blend the curd cheese, the sour cream, the 3 eggs, the poppy seeds and the mix for the filling. Beat until smooth, then fold in the blanched and drained cranberry’s.
5. Pour the filling into the prepared crust and smoothen it out.
6. Now take the remaining crumbles and knead them with your hands to a smooth dough. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured, hygienic clean surface, into a rectangle. Then cut it into stripes. Decorate these stripes in a grit pattern on top of the cranberry-cheese-cream.
7. Bake in preheated oven for about 60 minutes and proceed according to the instructions on the packaging.