How to make your own cheesecake? How to choose cottage cheese? Bake or use a cold recipe? Read the answers to all these questions and a detailed recipe for an American dessert in this review.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step preparation of cheesecake with photo
- Video recipe
The beautiful and fashionable name of the dessert, like Cheesecake, is increasingly remembered in our country. The product is a pie or cake, where the main component is soft cheese or cottage cheese filling. Cheesecakes are divided into 2 categories: "cold" preparation and with a baked filling.
The easiest way to work with "cold" unbaked cheesecakes. They are curd mousse or cream cheese, which are combined with gelatin or other gelling agent. Thanks to this, the products keep their shape. Sometimes white chocolate is put in the filling to keep the cake well. Cheesecakes like this are great in summer with fruit sauces or fresh berries. How to cook this recipe, with step by step photos, I will tell you later. And today we will figure out in detail how to cook a cheesecake with baked curd filling. Moreover, this particular cheesecake is considered a classic American dessert.
- To prepare such a cheesecake, a shortbread cake is usually baked, which serves as the bottom base for the cake. It absorbs moisture from the curd filling, which makes it softer and more tender.
- It is important to cool the baked cheesecake to room temperature, and then keep it in the refrigerator for 10 hours. Only then will it be well cut and fully reveal the taste.
- Cool baked goods slowly. First, turn off the oven, open the door and let the cheesecake sit for 15 minutes. Then remove it from the brazier and use a knife to separate the edges of the cake from the walls of the pan. Leave the cake in the pan to cool until it cools completely. Move it to the cold just now.
- All foods must be at the same temperature. Therefore, remove them from the refrigerator beforehand.
- For an even baking process, bake the dessert in a water bath.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 321 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 1 Pie
- Cooking time - 1 hour, plus cooling time
Ingredients:
- Shortbread cookies - 300 g
- Butter - 150 g
- Sour cream or cream - 200 ml
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Cottage cheese - 300 g
- Sugar - 100 g or to taste
Step by step cheesecake preparation:
1. Place the biscuits in a food processor and grind until finely crumbled. Take soft cookies. Its taste is usually classic, vanilla. But if you wish, you can take other types or assorted.
2. Cut the softened butter into slices and add to the food processor to the cookie crumbs.
3. Take a baking dish and lay out the shortbread crust, forming sides 3 cm high. Send it to a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
4. In a food processor, combine sour cream with eggs and sugar and beat until smooth.
5. Pour the cottage cheese to the sour cream and beat again so that the cottage cheese becomes homogeneous and smooth without grains and lumps.
6. Pour the curd filling into the dried shortbread cake. Set the temperature in the oven to 160-170 degrees and send the product to bake for half an hour. Chill the cheesecake, as described above, slowly, gradually, and only then start drinking tea.
See also the video recipe on how to make a delicious homemade cheesecake.
