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by Shaindy Menzer | May 08, 2018 | 21 comment(s)

The Cheesecake of Your Dream Is Here: Light and Airy Israeli-Style Cheesecake

Want a no-bake, fluffy, smooth, refreshing cheesecake? This is the one! Add this one to the Shavuos menu and it’ll be part of your Yom Tov memories forever.

My mother-in-law used to make this cheesecake, and I remember always loving it. So light and airy, almost like whipped cream…it was so different that the typical thick North American cheesecake. The lightness and creaminess was always really perfect for a hot Shavuos day. A few years ago, I asked my mother-in-law for the recipe, but she had lost it. Then, just last year, she called me up, all excited…she had found the recipe! It’s everything that I remember.  

Israeli Cheescake

Israeli-Style Cheesecake
 
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Ingredients
Crumble:
  • 3 ½ cups flour
  • ¾ cup (1 ½ sticks) margarine or butter
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 whole egg
Cheese filling:
  • 1 (8-ounce) container whipped topping or heavy cream
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 box instant vanilla pudding
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 8.8 ounce containers Quark 9% Soft Cheese
Instructions
  1. Prepare the crumble. Preheat oven to 350⁰F.
  2. In a bowl, combine all ingredients and knead with your hands to form a crumble. Set aside ⅓ of the dough. Spread remaining crumble in a 9- x 13-inch baking pan. Don’t press the crumbs down too hard. Bake until light brown, about 20-25 minutes. Place the remaining ⅓ crumble in a separate baking pan and bake just a few minutes less. Set aside.
  3. Prepare the filling. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat whipped topping until stiff. Slowly add in milk while the mixer is running, then add pudding and sugar. Turn the mixer off and stir in the cheese using a spoon.
  4. Add the cheese filling on top of the first dough. Crumble the second dough and sprinkle it onto the cheese. Refrigerate for 4 hours. Slice into squares when ready to serve.
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Filed Under: Recipes, Shavuos Tagged With: baked goods, cake, dairy, desserts, oven, shavuos, snacks

Shaindy Menzer

As the founder of MyDesign, Shaindy is the genius behind some of the most successful marketed brands in the Jewish world today. As a multitalented graphic designer, web developer, and photographer, Shaindy, along with her children, also enjoys delving into creative DIY projects.

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Comments

  1. Estie says

    May 8, 2018 at 4:57 pm

    Looks yum! By instruction #2 it says to bake until light brown, about X minutes. Can you replace that with a number?! Thanks.

    Reply
    • Shaindy Menzer says

      May 8, 2018 at 5:29 pm

      Updated! Thanks for pointing it out.

      Reply
  2. A says

    May 8, 2018 at 7:16 pm

    Is there a sub for the quark cheese?

    Reply
    • Leah Schapira says

      May 8, 2018 at 9:17 pm

      No, I’m sorry, this needs Tnuva Israeli cheese. You can search other cheesecakes on our site.

      Reply
  3. SL says

    May 9, 2018 at 2:03 am

    what would the cups/tablespoons measure for the pudding

    Reply
    • Shaindy Menzer says

      May 9, 2018 at 9:55 pm

      One box is 2.8 oz

      Reply
  4. Mia says

    May 9, 2018 at 3:37 am

    My mother makes a similar recipe, but for the filling she uses sour cream instead of quark cheese, and it comes out AMAZING! Looks similar to the picture shown too.

    Reply
    • C says

      May 22, 2022 at 5:18 pm

      Mia, could you share your mother’s recipe? Thanks!

      Reply
  5. Esti V says

    May 9, 2018 at 11:33 am

    Can this be frozen?

    Reply
    • Shaindy Menzer says

      May 9, 2018 at 10:26 pm

      Yes!

      Reply
  6. D M says

    May 10, 2018 at 9:57 am

    Will 3% Quark cheese also good?

    Reply
    • Shaindy Menzer says

      May 16, 2018 at 9:39 pm

      5% would be better, but 3% should be fine as well.

      Reply
  7. Carol says

    May 16, 2018 at 1:55 pm

    Will 5% tnuva quark cheese be ok. I can’t find the 9%. If not I’ll keep looking. Thanks

    Reply
    • Shaindy Menzer says

      May 16, 2018 at 9:39 pm

      Yes it should be fine.

      Reply
  8. Carol says

    May 24, 2018 at 11:12 am

    I made your cheesecake for Shavuot, excellent, a new favorite. Thank you

    Reply
  9. Darzee says

    May 5, 2021 at 2:31 pm

    Hi,

    I really want to make this cheeseball.
    I checked out all my local groceries, and could only find tnuva labaneh, low fat sour cheese spread, 5%.

    Do you think it could work?
    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Darzee says

      May 5, 2021 at 2:32 pm

      Autocorrect argh!

      Cheesecake, not cheeseball!

      Reply
    • Shaindy Menzer says

      May 5, 2021 at 10:34 pm

      It should work!

      Reply
  10. Mindy says

    May 22, 2022 at 1:01 pm

    Quark cheese is impossible to find in Lakewood. No stores carry it, and if they happen to carry it they might only have a 3%.

    Reply
  11. Yehoudit says

    May 22, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    Hey, what’s quark cheese in hebrew please?

    Reply
    • Devorah says

      May 30, 2022 at 10:21 pm

      Gevina levana

      Reply

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