Anyone familiar with Quark and know of any recipes for it?

I was introduced to quark, which is a type of fresh cheese, in Germany a few years ago.  My host had made a desert of it, mixed with berries that was delicious...sort of a fresher/lighter version of panna cota or other custard desert.    In Europe, it apparently comes in various degrees of fat and has a taste something like a cross between cream cheese and sour cream.

Well, I just found quark at the Costco!  I've never seen it in the U.S. before, so this was exciting...particularly since it is the 99% fat free type.

I've mixed it with chocolate pudding mix and it has a taste sort of like chocolate cheesecake. But I'm wondering if anyone might have any real recipes using it or other suggestions?

I'm assuming it has the same consistency as cream cheese so maybe you can go to the Philadelphia cream cheese website and replace it with your cheese.

I'm familiar with quark, but I don't have any recipes (I was Germany many, many years ago before I actually started to cook, bake, care about preparing food). But if I remember correctly, you can get the same thing here by making yogurt cheese, which is where you strain the whey liquid from ungelatinized yogurt (plain usually). So if you put a quart of plain yogurt into a strainer lined with cheesecloth or something similar and let it drain overnight, what remains is yogurt cheese, which is what quark is actually. So I would think if you Googled yogurt cheese recipes, you could find some pretty creative uses for your newly found quark. Have fun! BTW, I still don't do much in the line of baking, or creating foods, etc...30 years later, not much has changed!

http://mydukandiet.com/recipes/1/