I have long known (since my first visit to Germany in 1966) that the very best Cheese Cakes were the German Käse Sahne Kuchen and that these were made with Quark, the german equivalent of Cream Cheese/Cottage Cheese/Fromage Blanc/Fromage Frais/Mascarpone etc., etc.

To my delight I found some yesterday, and being made in Ireland too.

I was on a food trip with Myrtle Allen on behalf of Euro-Toques Ireland and we found the young Kingston family making delicious cultured milk products at their dairy farm in the hills over Drimoleague in West Cork.
Proper German Quark is one of their specialities.
They even make a sumptious cheese cake with it themselves which rivals those I tasted in Germany all that time ago.
Look out for Glenilen Farm Products.

Myrtle and myself with Alan and Valerie Kingston and their children.

By the way if , like me you have a fasination for words you will be interested in the following pinched from Wikipedia

“The name comes from the German Quark, which in turn is derived from the Slavic tvarog, (Polish twaróg, Russian tvorog, and Czech and Slovak tvaroh, which means “curd”).
In German, Quark may be used figuratively to mean “nonsense.” This usage is believed to be an inspiration for the sentence Three quarks for Muster Mark in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake,which itself inspired the name of quarks, elementary particles of which most of the material world is built.”