Cheesecake with cottage cheese without baking is a fairly popular dessert that has a lot of advantages. Firstly, it will take much less time to prepare it than an alternative recipe that involves baking. Secondly, no need to fiddle with the oven makes this treat a great option for the heat. Economy is also important: for cooking, we need simple and inexpensive products. Well, the simplicity of making this dessert will appeal even to housewives who have just begun to master kitchen wisdom.
There are a huge number of cheesecake recipes in the world. American housewives prefer to bake this dish in the oven, while in Europe it is often served raw. By and large, this is only a matter of taste, because all the ingredients present in most cheesecake recipes are already ready to eat.
Our article will tell you about all the intricacies of preparing this treat, and in addition, it will offer a few ideas for improvisation. Armed with the information received, you can easily prepare this dessert.
no bake cheesecake base
It is difficult to come up with anything simpler than a sand base on which the curd mousse rests like a cloud. After trying the result, you will be surprised that such a harmonious union can turn out from the simplest products. The crust is an essential ingredient, it is included in any cheesecake.
- The classic no-bake cottage cheese recipe involves the use of a split mold. Install it on the board. And we will do the cake like this:
- Grind 250 grams of any shortbread cookie in any convenient way into crumbs. Place half a pack of butter on a saucer and cover with a glass or cup with scalded boiling water for 3 minutes. This method allows you to quickly heat the oil to the desired state.
- Combine the butter and cookie crumbs, mix the mass thoroughly so that it becomes homogeneous.
- Firmly press the “dough” into the bottom of the mold, gently spreading it over the entire surface in an even layer.
- Remove the mold from the refrigerator.
By the way, to prepare the base, it is not at all necessary to buy the most expensive shortbread cookies. Even a broken one will do (it's much cheaper). The main condition is that the cookies must be very fresh.
A little improvisation
Why not experiment and make an unusual cheesecake? The recipe without baking with cottage cheese provides ample opportunities for improvisation.
For example, for the base, you can use cookies with the taste of coffee or baked milk. And if you do not plan to treat children with dessert, you can drop a few drops of liquor or cognac into the crumbs. A very beautiful base with an expressive taste of chocolate will come from Oreo. You can add chocolate drops, a little boiled condensed milk, nuts fried in a dry frying pan to the crumbs of ordinary cookies. And if you use Savoyardi cookies soaked in strong coffee as a base, the cheesecake will taste like the famous Tiramisu dessert.
Suitable curd
For the preparation of cheesecakes, different fillings are used: homemade cottage cheese, various varieties of cream and curd cheese, and even tofu. It is worth noting that for most recipes, these options are interchangeable.
We are looking at the curd recipe. Therefore, it is worth mentioning which product is the best.
Most confectioners advise using high-fat homemade cottage cheese. It has an expressive taste and an interesting structure. But a no-bake cheesecake with cottage cheese can also be prepared from a store-bought product. Moreover, if you want to achieve a calorie reduction, you can even use fat-free cottage cheese. In any case, before preparing the filling, it will need to be crushed as much as possible, passing through a fine metal sieve.
curd layer
First of all, soak 15 g of gelatin in very hot water. Remember, at temperatures above 85 ° C, gelatin loses its properties, but too cold is not good either. The optimal value is 75-80 degrees.
Load 500 grams of cottage cheese into a blender bowl, send 100 ml of fat sour cream there, 4 tbsp. l. sugar and some vanilla extract. Punch carefully and let stand for a while so that the sugar dissolves.
Stir the gelatin mixture, pour it through a sieve into the curd cream and mix with a spatula.
Spread the mixture over the cookie layer, smoothing evenly. To avoid bubbles and bumps, do not lay out the entire cream at once, load in portions.
It will take about 4 hours for the no-bake cheesecake with cottage cheese to freeze properly. Send the container to the refrigerator. When the curd cream hardens, carefully unzip the mold, remove the side, transfer the dessert to a serving dish. The recipe is fine in this version, but we will consider a few more unusual ideas.
Berry flavor
Since we decided that summer is a great time to make no-bake cottage cheese cheesecake with gelatin, we will use its potential to the maximum.
You can add berries to the curd filling: currants, strawberries, cherries, raspberries. Choose any! You can smash the berries in a puree and squeeze it through cheesecloth into a curd base, or you can add them whole. In the context of the dessert will look very colorful. For the indicated amount, you will need about 2/3 cups of berries.
Fruits are also suitable: peaches, nectarines, plums, ripe soft pears.
low calorie dessert
A small calorie content of the top layer can be provided with low-fat cottage cheese. And for sweetness, it is better to add honey. Its calorie content is not much lower than that of granulated sugar, but it will take quite a bit to get a great taste.
Options for the holiday
The basic recipe for this treat can also be used for a celebration. You can make a no-bake cheesecake with cottage cheese and cookies very quickly, because the active cooking time is no more than half an hour. In the meantime, the dessert freezes, you can pay attention to the rest of the ideas.
Soak 30 g of gelatin, and after 20 minutes put in a water bath, heat until the crystals dissolve. 200 g of sweets "Korovka" without wrappers, cut in half and pour half a glass of milk. Put the dishes on a small fire, do not forget to stir. Beat 400 g of cottage cheese, add an incomplete glass of fat sour cream, swollen gelatin and candy-milk mass. Put the cream on the cake and keep the no-bake cottage cheese cheesecake with gelatin in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours. By the way, "Oreo" is suitable for the base just fine.
How to decorate a cheesecake?
In the summer, you can use pieces of fruit, berries, mint leaves. Chocolate chips look beautiful on curd cream.
A frozen no-bake cheesecake with cottage cheese and cookies can be poured over with ganache or icing. If you don’t want to spend a lot of time decorating, just melt half of the chocolate bar in the microwave, mix with 50 grams of room temperature butter and spread over the surface. What could be more appetizing than chocolate?
Serving to the table
Cheesecake with cottage cheese without baking goes well with tea, coffee, cocoa, juices. It is quite acceptable to serve this treat with fermented baked milk or cold milk. If the format of the feast involves stronger drinks, give preference to red dessert wine.
If you want to cook an original dessert in your home kitchen that will surprise you, your friends and loved ones, then cottage cheese cheesecake is a wonderful option. At the same time, the dish does not require the skills of a professional confectioner and is prepared from the usual set of ingredients.
If we compare the cost of a pie made from mascarpone and cottage cheese, then the latter will have an advantage. The recipe for such a dish, due to its merits, is in the arsenal of many housewives. We recommend combining berries and cottage cheese in such a dessert, since this combination has long been a classic.
Curd cheesecake is a great dessert option that can be served with a sweet table or tea party. It will decorate any feast and delight you with excellent taste. In addition, such a delicacy, since it does not contain dark chocolate, can be given to children without fear that the kids will develop an allergy. All the ingredients in the pie are healthy.
Classic variant
Cheesecake is a dish that has become widespread in Europe and the USA. Translated from English, “cheese” means cheese, and “cake” means pie. In the last decade, this dessert has become extremely popular in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. It is distinguished, first of all, by its creamy-fruity taste.
The classic recipe involves making a cheesecake based on mascarpone cheese. This product is prepared by heat treatment of ordinary cream with a fat content of 25%. Usually the cake is baked in the oven in a water bath. Mascarpone gives the cake an unusual taste that is very difficult to confuse with anything. There are few people in the world who don't like cheesecake.
It should be noted that the classic cheesecake has two disadvantages:
- The first is the high cost of mascarpone. In small shops with a limited range of products, you may not find such Italian cream cheese at all. But there is always a way out - you can cook mascarpone yourself in your home kitchen. This process is not as complicated as it seems at first glance.
- The second disadvantage is the complexity of execution. Not all housewives know how to bake cakes in a water bath. Such a condition is necessary so that the base of the pie does not dry out, does not split and acquire a delicate taste. But it is worth noting that this technology requires appropriate skills.
Dessert from cottage cheese
Cottage cheesecake is much easier to prepare than a classic one. This is its great advantage. You can choose a no-bake pie recipe - in this case, just put the filling on the base and send it to the refrigerator for a couple of hours to solidify. Such a cheesecake can be prepared immediately before the arrival of guests by sending it to a cool place. By the time it's time for tea, the treat will be ready.
It is very important to choose the right form for the dish. It should traditionally be round. It is desirable that the mold be collapsible - then it will be much easier to remove the finished cheesecake from it.
It may turn out that there is cottage cheese in the refrigerator, with which you simply do not know what to do. In this case, cheesecake is a way to use products rationally, making an incredibly tasty dessert that your loved ones and guests will love. Of course, the taste of such a dish will be different, since mascarpone and cottage cheese are fundamentally different fillings. But that doesn't make the cheesecake any less delicious. Moreover, for adherents of Slavic cuisine, the taste of such a delicacy will be more familiar, since in Eastern Europe dishes based on cottage cheese have been known to everyone since early childhood. This ingredient contains a large amount of calcium and is very beneficial for the body.
Cheesecake preparation
It is very important to add suitable spices to the cake, such as vanilla, cinnamon. You can decorate the finished delicacy with a sprig of fresh mint, which will emphasize the sophistication of the dish.
Easy Cheesecake Recipe
This recipe is very simple, despite the fact that the cake should be baked in the oven. So, in order to make a curd cheesecake, you need to take the following ingredients:
- 100 grams of sugar (4 tablespoons);
- 100 grams of butter;
- 350 - 400 grams of cookies;
- 2 eggs;
- 500 grams of cottage cheese;
- 150 grams of sour cream.
We recommend starting the preparation of dessert from the base. To do this, the butter must be cold so that it has a solid consistency. Cookies can be used "Baked milk" or another similar kind. The main condition is that the cookies should be crumbly. It is necessary to grind it into crumbs and add the butter cut into small pieces. When the two ingredients are well mixed, a dough will be obtained, which should be laid out on the bottom of the baking dish. The walls should also be covered with a cookie base. If you are afraid that the cake will burn, you can lay out the bottom of the form with parchment paper.
Next, you need to prepare the filling. First, the cottage cheese should be passed through a sieve or well crushed with a fork. This will give the ingredient a uniform structure. After that, sugar, sour cream and eggs are added to the cottage cheese. The stuffing should be mixed well. You can beat it with a mixer. After that, the cottage cheese is laid out in a mold on the bottom layer, consisting of butter and cookies.
The cake should be baked at a temperature of 160 degrees for about an hour.
Since our base consists of cookies, it is not necessary to put a container of water in the oven, which will create a water bath. The main thing is not to bake the dessert at a high temperature, otherwise it may dry out and crack.
If you want to achieve a golden crust, 10 minutes before you take the cheesecake out of the oven, turn on the temperature of 180 - 185 degrees and set the oven to the upper preheat setting.
You should wait a little after you remove the cheesecake from the oven, and only when the cake has cooled a little, you can take it out of the mold. This process requires caution as there is a risk of damaging the integrity of the cheesecake. We recommend decorating your dessert with raspberries, strawberries or apricots. It must be understood that decoration is not the main thing in this dish. Even the most sophisticated restaurants often serve cheesecake without the presentation of additional ingredients. The pie is of culinary and aesthetic value even without fruit filler.
Cheesecake without baking
The following recipe is ideal for housewives who do not have an oven. He is able to surprise anyone who tries such a delicious dessert. Its main feature can be considered that it is not baked. So, you will need the following ingredients:
- 300 grams of cookies "Baked milk";
- 150 grams of roasted hazelnuts;
- 150 grams of melted butter;
- 500 grams of homemade cottage cheese;
- 500 grams of blueberries;
- 80 milliliters of grenadine;
- 15 grams of gelatin;
- 120 grams of sugar;
- 100 grams of white chocolate;
- 50 milliliters of cream.
So, the preparation of dessert should begin with the basics. Hazelnuts must be carefully chopped. If you bought raw nuts, roast them lightly in a pan. After that, grind the cookies into crumbs and mix them with chopped hazelnuts and melted butter. The shortbread dough should be laid out in an even layer in a baking dish and compacted well. Then you can start preparing the filling.
Gelatin should be dissolved in a small amount of warm water. Separately, you need to grind through a sieve or grind blueberries in a blender. Next, pass the curd through a sieve. Cottage cheese, grenadine, grated blueberries, sugar are mixed in a separate container. You can lightly beat the mixture with a mixer. After that, the filling is laid out on the bottom layer of cookies. Then the dessert should be sent for 20 - 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
In the meantime, you can prepare a delicious cream. In a water bath, heat the cream to a warm state and add pieces of white chocolate to them. When the mixture becomes homogeneous, remove the cream from the heat and cool it. Dessert should be taken out of the refrigerator and poured over with cream. It is desirable that the cheesecake then be in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours. This recipe will allow you to cook a truly royal dish. Before serving, you can decorate the cheesecake with berries.
You can cook cottage cheese cheesecake in a slow cooker, oven, or even make a dessert that does not require baking. Of course, the classic recipe calls for the use of mascarpone cream cheese. But at the same time, cottage cheese is also often used to make cheesecake, since this ingredient is affordable and no less tasty. We recommend that you definitely try making cottage cheese cheesecake in your home kitchen.
Good afternoon friends!
Today we are preparing New York cheesecake, a very American dish. In translation (sheese - cheese, cake - cake) means an open cheese cake, which consists of two layers, the lower one is a crumbly dough that melts in the mouth and the upper one is made of the most delicate soufflé.
Where does the name "New York" come from? From Wikipedia: from the history of this dessert, it is known that until 1929, Americans used mainly curd cheeses in recipes, and starting from this year, the famous restaurateur Arnold Reuben used cream cheese for the first time. Since then, the name has been determined - cheesecake, as well as the place of its origin - "New York".
Cheesecake prepared according to the classic recipe turns out to be quite high-calorie (about 700 kcal per 100 grams of the finished product), because it contains high-calorie ingredients: cookies, cream cheese, sour cream (cream), sugar (chocolate), eggs. The most important component is fatty cream cheese, slightly salty, with a delicate texture.
This dessert can be baked in the oven, in the oven in a water bath or in a slow cooker. And you can even cook without baking. Today we will look at the first two baking options, as they are more suitable for preparing a classic recipe.
Making a cheesecake at home is not difficult if you follow the technology and certain proportions of the main ingredients.
If you haven't tried it yet, I suggest you do it together.
Classic New York Cheesecake Recipe Step by Step
Cheesecake base can be prepared in two ways. The first is to prepare the dough yourself, roll it out, put it in a mold and then pour the filling on it. This is a labor intensive and time consuming process. The second is to use crushed cookies, which is exactly what the roots of this dessert do.
Ingredients:
for the base:
- cookies - 300 gr
- butter - 80 gr
- brown sugar - pinch
for the soufflé:
- cream cheese - 750 gr
- sugar - 4 tbsp. spoons
- eggs - 4 pcs
- zest of one lemon
- vanilla sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon
- salt - to taste
for decoration:
- glaze - 1 sachet
- mint - 1 sprig
Step by step preparation:
I took the creamy shortbread. When I buy a product, I always pay attention to the composition, production time, and the reliability of the packaging. You can take any cookie: shortbread, biscuit, almond, puff, lingering, oatmeal, cracker. The taste and calorie content of this cheese cake will depend on your choice.
Shortbread cookies are loose, tender and crumbly, so they are very suitable for our recipe.
Break the cookies into pieces and chop, add brown sugar and mix everything well.
Melt butter.
In a bowl, combine crushed biscuits with butter.
Mix everything until the state of "wet sand". The baking dish must be detachable, otherwise you risk not getting your baked masterpiece. Put parchment paper in a baking dish, it should cover the bottom and walls of the form.
With your hands, evenly distribute the mass along the bottom and tamp. You can tamp only along the bottom, or you can make the side higher.
Send the prepared base to the oven for 10-12 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. My favorite convection oven, it has a built-in fan that evenly moves hot air and ensures even baking from all sides.
While the base for our cake is being prepared in the oven, let's take care of the filling. Break the eggs into a bowl, add the zest of one lemon, white sugar and real vanilla. Mix well at low speed.
Do not beat the eggs with sugar too much, the sugar should just completely dissolve.
The classic Cheesecake, in the original, is made from soft and tender Philadelphia cream cheese. I didn’t have it in the refrigerator, and I replaced it with Almette cheese, it is very similar in texture and taste, and besides, it’s cheaper.
Combine the cheese with the contents of the bowl and mix well. It turned out to be a thin, tender, creamy mass.
In the meantime, the substrate in the oven was browned, became crispy.
Pour the prepared substrate with cheese mass and level it. Quietly shake a few times so that the filling evenly spreads and fills all the voids.
Next important! Before sending the completed form back to the oven, it is necessary to reduce the temperature from 180 to 150 degrees. At high temperatures, the cheese mass may delaminate, and the surface will crack. After the oven has cooled to 150 degrees, place the mold and bake for 40-50 minutes. To determine the readiness of the souffle, you need to gently shake the form - if ready, then only the middle will tremble.
After the time has elapsed, do not rush to pull the mold out of the oven. From rapid cooling, the surface of the dessert can crack badly and lose its presentation. To save the cake from cracking, it must be cooled very slowly, let it remain in the oven for an hour.
After the time has elapsed, remove the detachable form, and leave the dessert on the table until completely cooled. Then cover with cling film and send for further cooling in the refrigerator for 8-12 hours.
What a handsome man we have! Tall and magnificent, it remains only to decorate it. In the classic New York cheesecake recipe, only mint leaves are garnished.
If you get small cracks, they can be masked by sprinkling powdered sugar on the cake or covering it with a thin layer of icing. I did not have powdered sugar, but there is a ready-made glaze powder.
Dilute the contents of the sachet in warm milk (four tablespoons), and put on the top surface of the cheesecake. Draw a picture with chocolate strings, lay out mint leaves. Refrigerate for 15-20 minutes to allow frosting and chocolate to harden.
It turned out a delicious, delicate, airy dessert, a classic cheesecake. Having bitten off a piece, the grandson immediately defined “stunned”, and this is his highest praise.
Basic cooking rules:
- All ingredients must be at room temperature
- Be sure to take Philadelphia cream cheese.
- the baking dish must be detachable
- cooling of the finished dessert is carried out in 3 stages
How to bake a cheesecake in a water bath oven
At the first stages of preparation, everything is done in the same way as described above. We will also bake in the oven, only in a water bath. What is it for. Some sources claim that with this method of baking, the heat from the water is more even, and therefore the cheesecakes come out without cracks. I have tried both methods of preparation and I will say that there is not much difference.
However, try it yourself and choose what suits you best. Most likely it will, depending on the functions of your oven.
So, a water bath for cheesecake:
- wrap the outside of the cake mold with foil to prevent water from getting inside
- put in a deep pan, and pour hot water into it, up to half of the detachable form
- bake for 1 hour at 160 degrees
The most important thing in preparing a cheesecake is to bake evenly and for a long time, and then cool slowly and for a long time.
no bake cheesecake recipe lies in the fact that the base of the cake and the filling are not baked, but cooled in the refrigerator.
- Mix crushed biscuits with softened butter.
- Put the resulting mass into a detachable form and tamp into a thin cake with high sides.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes, during which time the butter will freeze and the cake will hold its shape.
- Melt chocolate in a water bath, add cream cheese.
- Three secrets of well whipped cream: it must be well chilled, the utensils and mixer must be dry, beat at medium speed. Gently fold the whipped cream into the chocolate mixture.
- Pour the prepared filling into the chilled cake.
- Cover with cling film and refrigerate for 8-10 hours.
- Decorate as desired, serve.
Strawberry cheesecake with cottage cheese at home
To prepare this dessert, we need:
for the base:
- flour - 150 gr
- butter - 100 gr
- brown sugar - 50 gr
- salt - a pinch
- water - 1 tbsp. l
for the soufflé:
- cottage cheese - 920 gr
- fresh strawberries - 300 gr
- gelatin - Art. l
- milk - 250 gr
- cream 35% fat - 300 gr
- sugar - 50 gr
- salt - to taste
for decoration:
- fresh strawberries - 700 gr
Now you know how to make cheesecake at home. Use this recipe, or modify it to your liking, but know that in any case, bliss awaits you!
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Cheesecake (cheese cake) is a very popular treat. Despite the fact that this is a cake (cake), it is not always necessary to cook it with an oven. An American cheesecake is certainly baked, but the British came up with the idea of adding gelatin to the curd filling. The result was a no-bake cheesecake made from both cream cheese and regular cottage cheese.
Classic no-bake cheesecake
Although it is quite feasible to make a cottage cheese cake from cream cheese and sour-milk cottage cheese (both products in English are called the same word “cheese”), but it’s better to take mascarpone, and if you use cottage cheese, it’s soft and fatty without granularity and grains.
To prepare a classic version of a dessert without the use of heat treatment, the kitchen must have:
- 400 g of shortbread cookies;
- 155 g butter;
- 620 g cream cheese (or cottage cheese);
- 500 ml cream;
- 155 g of powdered sugar;
- 100 ml of water;
- 100 ml of milk;
- 24 g gelatin.
Cooking step by step:
- Grind the cookies to small grains, to which add the melted butter. You can quickly carry out such a manipulation using a blender or by walking over the cookies with a rolling pin. In the first case, it is more efficient. Compact the oiled crumb in a detachable form.
- Cheese, sweet powder and cream foam into the most homogeneous mixture.
- Pour water into a small container with gelatin. Heat the milk to a hot state, not allowing it to boil. Pour it into the swollen gelatin. Stir until all grains are completely dissolved.
- Dissolved gelatin is added to whipped cream cheese and beat well again so that the gelling component does not settle at the bottom.
- Transfer the soufflé to a mold and allow it to harden calmly in the cold. The finished cheesecake can be topped with a layer of berry or fruit juice jelly, as well as chocolate icing, garnished with berries, or chocolate or coconut flakes.
Curd dessert with cookies
Making no-bake cheesecake is not difficult. In a nutshell: you need to mix all the ingredients, put them in a container for assembly, and put them on the shelf of the refrigerator.
To do this, to the disgrace of a simple dessert, you need to take:
- 400 g of cottage cheese;
- 320 ml sour cream;
- 255 g of powdered sugar;
- 4 g vanilla powder;
- 4 yolks;
- 42 g gelatin;
- 250 g shortbread crumbs;
- any berries for decoration.
Cooking steps:
- Grind sour milk cheese with yolks, add powdered sugar, vanilla powder and sour cream. Beat the mixed products well, then pour in the gelatin dissolved in water (or milk).
- At the bottom of the mold, it is good to compress the sand crumbs, put the curd soufflé on top. After that, hide the dessert from yourself and other sweet lovers for four hours in the refrigerator to thicken and stabilize. Garnish with whole berries before serving.
With strawberries
The combination of bright juicy strawberries with snow-white curd soufflé will make the dessert tasty and spectacular.
How to make cheesecake at home? What cottage cheese or cheese is better to use? Do I need to bake it or can I get by with a “cold” recipe? Learn all about the popular American dessert!
In fact, the birthplace of cheesecake is not America at all, but Eastern Europe. It was in some regions of Russia, as well as in Ukraine and Belarus, where cottage cheese was traditionally eaten, that the first casseroles and cheesecakes appeared, which are considered the “ancestors” of the famous dessert. The Americans made only some adjustments to it, replacing the cottage cheese with more fatty varieties of cream cheese, in particular, Philadelphia. But it is worth noting that the overseas version of the cheesecake allows you to get a more delicate dish. Such a dessert can be served at the festive table along with other delicacies: chicken heart skewers or pork liver pate.
Dish features
Behind the fashionable name is a pie with cheese or cottage cheese filling, which can be prepared in two ways.
- Hot - as a base, a grated biscuit cake is used, which serves not only as a bottom. But it also helps to remove excess moisture from the curd. When we cook cheesecake at home, it is important to remember that “hot recipes” require patience: the finished dish should be kept in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours so that it reveals all its flavors and cuts well when served.
- Cold - no-bake cheesecake is a mousse made from cream cheese or cottage cheese. Gelatin or other gelling component helps to keep its shape. Sometimes this is white chocolate. Especially attractive is the no-bake cheesecake recipe in summer, in combination with fruit sauces or berries.
7 cooking secrets
Cooking a cheesecake at home will succeed if you follow 7 rules.
- Take the ingredients out of the refrigerator ahead of time. It is important that they are at room temperature.
- Do not beat the curd mass at high speed or for too long. If it is oversaturated with air, the surface of the dessert will crack.
- Bake in the oven in a water bath. Thanks to the "work" of the steam, the process will be more uniform.
- Do not set the baking temperature to high. It should be 165-170 °.
- Chill the cake slowly. To do this, after turning off the fire, slightly open the oven door, leave for 15 minutes, and only then take it out. After another 10 minutes, separate the edges of the cake from the walls of the mold with a knife, but do not remove it from it, but leave it to cool completely.
- Cream cheese for cheesecake can be Philadelphia, Bucco, Ricotta, Mascarpone. But no less tasty will be a dessert made from low-fat cottage cheese.
- Other ingredients can be added to the filling. for example, try making pumpkin cheesecake. But it is important to consider that such a cake will be even more moist.
Delicious and easy recipes
Take advantage of any cheesecake recipe at home. And make sure that this dish is not difficult to prepare.
Classic recipe
To make this classic cheesecake recipe, you will need:
- sweet cracker (can be replaced with any crumbly biscuits) - 300 g;
- sugar - 2 cups;
- oil - 100 g;
- cream cheese - 900 g;
- egg - 5 pcs.;
- flour - 3.5 tbsp. spoons;
- zest of half a lemon;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- vanilla sugar - a tablespoon;
- salt - a pinch.
- Grind the cookies, add 4 tablespoons of sugar, pour in melted butter and mix well. Knead a homogeneous mass with your hands.
- Place in a round detachable form, firmly tamp with a spoon or the bottom of a glass.
- Bake in a preheated 180° oven for 10 minutes.
- Beat cheese with sugar, lemon juice and zest, salt, vanilla.
- Add flour and continue beating.
- Enter the eggs one at a time.
- Pour the cheese mixture into the form with the cooled cake. Put in the oven for 1 hour. Place a smaller bowl filled with water underneath.
- The finished cheesecake is browned on the sides, but retains a quivery, gelatinous center.
- Cool at room temperature and refrigerate.
New York Cheesecake
The recipe for New York cheesecake is also very simple. You will need:
- shortbread cookies - 200 g;
- butter - 100 g;
- cream cheese or cottage cheese - 750 g;
- sugar - 200 g;
- vanilla sugar - 10 g;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- cream with a fat content of 35% - 180 ml;
- lemon zest - a teaspoon.
- When preparing the shortbread base, grind the cookies in a blender, pour in melted butter, mix, pack tightly and bake for 10 minutes in an oven heated to 180 °.
- Take out the form, cool, wrap it with a couple of layers of foil.
- Peel the zest from the lemon, chop.
- Grind sugar into powder in a coffee grinder.
- Mix cheese with sugar, vanilla, beat at minimum speed with a mixer. Add the zest, pour in the cream and beat again.
- Pour the butter cream into a mold with a ready-made base, level it and put it in a preheated oven in a water bath. Bake for approximately 80 minutes.
- Cool and serve.
chocolate cheesecake
This recipe for chocolate cheesecake at home is prepared without turning on the oven.
- shortbread cookies - 150 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- sugar - 100 g;
- fat cream - 120 ml;
- bitter chocolate - 150 g;
- cocoa - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- cream cheese - 200 g.
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath, cool.
- Crush the cookies into crumbs, mix with one tablespoon of sugar and melted butter. Grind and tamp into shape. Put the workpiece in the refrigerator.
- Whip the cream into soft foam, add chocolate and cocoa, previously diluted with a small amount of warm water. Stir.
- Beat cheese with sugar, mix with chocolate mass.
- Pour into a mold and put in the freezer for an hour.
- Then put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, serve.
Now, we hope you know exactly how to make cheesecake at home. And you can cook it without problems!
