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No-bake vanilla and cocoa quark cake

Name: No-bake vanilla and cocoa quark cake
Yield: 1 cake
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 450 g Smooth quark (soft curd cheese); 450 g Sour cream; 1/2 cup Milk; 20 g Unflavored gelatin; 1/2 cup Granulated sugar; 2 tbsp Cocoa powder; 1 packet Vanilla sugar (20 g)

A no-bake cake with vanilla and cocoa layers made from smooth quark, sour cream, and gelatin. Prep takes about 15 minutes, then chill. Makes 1 cake.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 15 min
Servings: 1 cake
Difficulty: Easy

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This no-bake quark cake with gelatin has two layers: a light vanilla layer and a dark cocoa layer. The filling is made with smooth quark (soft curd cheese), sour cream, and sugar, then set with gelatin dissolved in hot milk. Preparation takes about 15 minutes; the cake spends the rest of the time in the refrigerator. Decorate it with nuts or fresh fruit before serving.

Ingredients

Smooth quark (soft curd cheese) 450 g
Sour cream 450 g
Milk 1/2 cup
Unflavored gelatin 20 g
Granulated sugar 1/2 cup
Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
Vanilla sugar (20 g) 1 packet

1 cup = 250 ml (metric cup)

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Instructions

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Pour the hot milk over the gelatin and let it bloom. Meanwhile, mix the sour cream with the quark, granulated sugar, and vanilla sugar. Add the gelatin mixture and mix thoroughly.
Divide the filling in half and stir the cocoa powder into one half. Pour the vanilla filling into a cake pan and place it in the freezer for a few minutes so it sets faster and the cocoa layer will not sink into it.
After a few minutes, pour the cocoa filling over the vanilla layer and refrigerate the cake until set. Decorate with nuts or fruit before serving.

Tip: Dissolve the granulated sugar in the hot milk along with the gelatin, or replace it with powdered sugar; in the cold filling, granulated sugar would remain undissolved and taste gritty.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per 100 g, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 159 kcal
Protein: 8.4 g
Carbohydrates: 14 g
of which sugars: 14 g
Fat: 7.6 g
of which saturates: 5.1 g
Fiber: 0.3 g
Salt: 0.1 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: Nepečená tvarohová torta so želatínou a kakaom