No-bake quark cream dessert with pudding and cookies

Name: No-bake quark cream dessert with pudding and cookies
Yield: 1 pan
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 500 ml Milk (plus a little for the cookies); 3 tbsp Powdered sugar; 2 packets Vanilla sugar (20 g each); 350–400 ml Heavy whipping cream; 250 g Smooth quark (soft curd cheese); 2 packets Instant vanilla pudding mix (no-cook); 300 g Butter cookies (plain biscuits)

No-cook, no-bake dessert of quark, whipped cream and instant vanilla pudding, layered with cookies. About 20 minutes of work, then it sets in the fridge.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 20 min
Servings: 1 pan
Difficulty: Easy

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Cold quark cream with no-cook pudding is a layered dessert with cookies that needs neither a stove nor an oven. It is based on a grandmother's recipe in which a classic pudding was originally cooked; here it is replaced by instant vanilla pudding whisked with milk. The pudding is combined with sweetened quark and whipped cream and layered in a pan lined with plastic wrap, alternating with cookies sprinkled with milk. The work takes about 20 minutes, and then the dessert sets in the refrigerator.

Ingredients

Milk (plus a little for the cookies) 500 ml
Powdered sugar 3 tbsp
Vanilla sugar (20 g each) 2 packets
Heavy whipping cream 350–400 ml
Smooth quark (soft curd cheese) 250 g
Instant vanilla pudding mix (no-cook) 2 packets
Butter cookies (plain biscuits) 300 g

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Instructions

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Beat the quark with 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar and 1 packet of vanilla sugar. Whip the cream with the remaining 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar.
Whisk the 500 ml of milk, 1 packet of vanilla sugar and the two packets of instant pudding mix together until you have a smooth, thick pudding. Fold in the quark mixture and the whipped cream.
Line a pan with high sides, about 20 × 30 cm (8 × 12 in), with plastic wrap. Arrange cookies over the bottom and sprinkle them with a little milk. Spread half of the cream over them, then add cookies, the rest of the cream and cookies again, and refrigerate for at least 3 hours to set.

Tip: Instant pudding sets within a few minutes, so fold in the quark mixture and the whipped cream as soon as it thickens; if it stood for a while, the cream would turn lumpy.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per 100 g, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 245 kcal
Protein: 4.9 g
Carbohydrates: 28 g
of which sugars: 19 g
Fat: 13 g
of which saturates: 8.1 g
Fiber: 0.1 g
Salt: 0.5 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Studený tvarohový krém s pudingom bez varenia