Simple fruit/topfen pie

[Jubal]

This was done to use up some ingredients that needed using up and I was quite pleased with it, noting down the recipe here for future use. For those not in German-speaking countries, topfen is more or less similar to quark, a very neutral or slightly sweetened (rather than savoury) soft/spreadable cheese product.

Basically five ingredients:

• Shortcrust pastry (murbteig in German)
• Creamy topfen
• Apricots (4)
• Blackberries (small punnet)
• Sugar

I formed the base in the tin and put the topfen straight on - I should probably have actually cooked the base a bit first to get a drier base and a faster cook. I had the oven on fan 180, and loosely put some foil over the top to stop everything browning too fast while it cooked, I think I did about a half hour like that, then took it out and arranged the fruit on top, I did the apricot segments in a spiral through the blackberries which looked pretty. Same thing cooking again for another half hour, sprinkled some extra sugar on top with about ten or 15 mins to go. And voila, Bob is thine uncle, etc.

And the result: