If your oven goes on strike or you just fancy a sweet treat without sweating in the kitchen, then these Crispy Strawberry Quark Squares are the perfect summer treat for you.
We’ve made them at the weekend for my mum’s 50th birthday party and they were a big hit with all party guests. If you want to recreate them, here’s the recipe for you.
Crispy Stawberry Quark Squares – for around 32 squares
Ingredients:
50g dark chocolate
15g vegetable fat like Trex
500g puffed rice cereal
7 gelatin sheets
6 tbsp strawberry jam
2kg strawberries
500g quark
100g sugar
500g whipping cream
Method:
1.Roughly chop chocolate, vegetable fat and puffed rice cereal. Melt chocolate and fat over a bain mari and stir in puffed rice cereal.
2. Line your baking tray (25 x 35cm) with baking paper and evenly spread your chocolate and puffed rice cereal mix. Leave to cool for 20 minutes.
3. While soaking your gelatin sheets, wash and quarter your strawberries, leaving enough to decorate your squares at the end. Spread the strawberry jam on your chocolate and puffed rice layer and then cover in your quartered strawberries.
4. Mix sugar and quark and then whip your cream. Squeeze out gelatin, dissolve and mix with quark before covering your base and strawberries with it. Cool for at least 2 hours, best over night.
5. Decorate with leftover strawberries and dust with a sprinkle of cocoa powder (optional!).
Enjoy and let me know what your favourite strawberry recipe is!
Linking up with Recipe of the Week, Tasty Tuesdays and Friday Foodie Round-Up.
They look lovely, but I cant eat gelatin- I will have to try and think of a substitute!
Oh yes -come to mamma little strawberry gems!
Another veggie who doesn’t eat gelatin – they look lovely though, agar flakes are a good alternative
Oh I’ve never heard of those, thanks for the tip, Chris x
Oh my this looks so yummy! One dessert i need to try!
Thank you for linking up with #fridayfoodie
They look gorgeous! Someone mentione vege-gel (or something like that to me a little while ago when I was making jelly and it looks like a great alterative to gelatin x x
They look delicious, I’ve not cooked with gelatine before, I must give it a try sometime.
It’s really easy. If I can do it, everyone can 😀
Jeez these look good x
They look yummy and one of my 5 a day too right 🙂
2kg of strawberries, that’s at least 3 out of 5, right? 😉
Wow these look incredible (fab food photography there), husband doesn’t eat meat or derivatives so perfect dessert for him, thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
Thank you 🙂
32 squares? that is one serving right? Because i could eat all of those right now with a cup of tea.
If I make the tea have we got a deal?
It sure is 😉
These look great. I keep meaning to try making something with quark – this might be just the thing! Thanks so much for linking up with #recipeoftheweek – I’ve pinned and tweeted this post and there’s a new linky going live at 6pm this evening 🙂
We use it a lot in German baking/cooking. It’s a fab ingredient x
I think I might try this but use banana instead of the gelatine.I’ve bought agar before and only used it once but banana is a good binder to use instead.
Yes agar flakes for me too but these do look super!
ooooh they look good Carolin and using quark makes them quite healthy too (well lower in fat then cream or cream cheese) x