Easy Strawberry Quark Sheet Cake

Grease the baking sheet and line with parchment paper

Preheat the oven to 180°C (convection: 160°C)

Beat soft butter with sugar and salt until fluffy

Add the eggs one at a time

Mix flour with baking powder and gradually fold into the butter mixture

Spread the batter onto the baking sheet

Bake for about 35 minutes

While the cake bakes, chop the chocolate coating and melt over a hot water bath

While the cake bakes, wash and clean the strawberries

While the cake bakes, halve 12 strawberries with stems and dip half into the melted chocolate

While the cake bakes, let the chocolate-dipped strawberries set on a piece of parchment paper

Let the cake base cool

Spread the remaining melted chocolate on the cooled cake base

Puree the remaining strawberries with lemon juice and the scraped seeds of the vanilla pod

Soak the gelatin in cold water according to package instructions

Whisk quark with sugar in a bowl

Warm 4-5 tablespoons of the strawberry puree with the squeezed-out gelatin and dissolve

Stir the dissolved gelatin mixture into the quark

Stir in the remaining strawberry puree

Whip the cream until stiff

When the quark mixture begins to set, fold in the whipped cream

Spread the quark mixture evenly over the chocolate layer on the cake sheet

Chill for at least 1 hour

Cut the sheet into 24 pieces

Garnish each piece with half a chocolate-dipped strawberry

Optionally, decorate with mint leaves