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Upside-down apple cake with quark and sour cream

Name: Upside-down apple cake with quark and sour cream
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 2 Apples; 2 tbsp Butter (or oil); 1 tbsp Granulated sugar; 250 g Quark (farmer's cheese); 2 Eggs; 3 tbsp Powdered sugar; pinch Salt; 500 ml Sour cream; 3 tbsp All-purpose flour

An upside-down cake with caramelized apples and a quark, egg, and sour cream batter, baked in an oven-safe skillet. Serves about 8.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 hr
Temperature: 200 °C (400 °F)
Servings: 8 servings
Difficulty: Medium

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This upside-down apple cake with quark and sour cream is a lighter version of the popular cake, with only a little flour and sugar. First, brown the apple slices with sugar in an oven-safe skillet, then cover them with a batter made from quark (farmer's cheese), eggs, and sour cream and bake at 200 °C (400 °F) until golden. Invert the baked cake onto a plate so the apples are on top. It makes about eight servings.

Ingredients

8 servings

Apples 2
Butter (or oil) 2 tbsp
Granulated sugar 1 tbsp

Batter

Quark (farmer's cheese) 250 g
Eggs 2
Powdered sugar 3 tbsp
Salt pinch
Sour cream 500 ml
All-purpose flour 3 tbsp

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Instructions

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Wash, peel, and core the apples, then cut them into slices. In an oven-safe skillet, sauté them on both sides with the butter and sugar.
Mix the remaining ingredients into a batter and spread it directly over the apples. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 °C (400 °F) for about 35 minutes, until golden.
Remove the baked cake from the oven, cover the skillet with a large plate, and carefully invert the cake so the browned apples are on top.

Tip: If you don't have an oven-safe skillet, transfer the browned apples and their juices to a greased round baking pan, then spread the batter over them.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 227 kcal
Protein: 8.1 g
Carbohydrates: 17 g
of which sugars: 12 g
Fat: 14 g
of which saturates: 9.1 g
Fiber: 1.1 g
Salt: 0.4 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: Obrátený tvarohový koláč s jablkami a kyslou smotanou