Contrary to popular belief that Cheesecake was first made in New York, this delicate cheese treat was known in ancient Greece. But it was in America, thanks to milkman William Lawrence and restaurateur Arnold Ruben from New York, that dessert began to be prepared with cream cheese. Since then, the New York version of the cheesecake went down in history as a classic and spread throughout the world.
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Classic Cheesecake Cake
It is believed that creating the perfect cheesecake is incredibly difficult. However, this is not at all true. Knowing some of the subtleties of cooking technology, you can create a flawless dessert, even at home.
The main component of this Cheesecake is cream cheese. The taste of the finished dish directly depends on the choice of this ingredient.
There are many types of cream cheeses: Feta, Mascarpone, Philadelphia, Ricotta, Buco, Hortek and others. However, they are often impossible to find on sale. This problem is not a reason for refusing to make a cheesecake dessert. Any of the listed cheeses can be prepared independently.
Fat cheeses are not recommended for cheesecake.
When cooking, it is very important to maintain the correct temperature. All components to be mixed must be at the same temperature. Dessert is baked at 160 ° C without opening the oven door to avoid temperature changes inside it. This will prevent cracking of the dessert surface.
After baking, the cake needs to be cooled gradually. The final readiness of the dish will be achieved after a long exposure in the refrigerator.
To make a cheesecake, you need to have a detachable shape with a diameter of 20–26 cm, which must be lined with parchment.
With Philadelphia Cheese
The most delicate cheesecake dessert is obtained exactly with Philadelphia cheese. It is baked in a water bath.
You will need:
- butter - 160 g;
- cookies "Jubilee" - 280 g;
- cream cheese Philadelphia - 0.7 kg;
- sugar - 110 g;
- vanillin - 0.5 g;
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- lemon zest - 20 g;
- sour cream with a fat content of 25% - 420 g;
- cinnamon - 6 g.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Grind cookies into crumbs using a blender, food processor or rolling pin.
- Pour cinnamon.
- Pour the melted butter.
- Stir until oil-sand crumbs are formed.
- Pour the oil and sand mixture into the mold.
- Tamping to form a base with a side.
- Remove the workpiece for 15 minutes in the freezer.
- Pour sugar into cheese. Mixing is done manually or with a mixer at low speeds using the “spatula” nozzle.
- Alternately introduce eggs into the cheese mass. Mixing with each of them to produce uniformity.
- Add sour cream. It should not contain serum. Otherwise, it is recommended that you first trail it.
- Add lemon zest and vanillin to the mixture.
- Heat the oven to 160 ℃.
- Cover the mold with the base blank with foil on the outside in several layers.
- Transfer the filling into a mold with an oil and sand billet.
- Place the pan in a pan of greater depth and diameter than the pan with dessert.
- Pour into the pan such a volume of hot water in which the cheesecake mold will be immersed in it to the middle of its height.
- Bake in a preheated oven for approximately 1 hour 20 minutes. Readiness is checked along the golden edges and the "lively" middle of the cake - it should tremble.
- Turn off the oven. Do not take out the mold for at least 1 hour. The door must be ajar.
- Remove form from oven and allow to cool completely.
- Put the dessert in the refrigerator for 6 hours, tightening the form with cling film.
Ready cheesecake is decorated with a leaf of mint. Dessert with fresh fruits or berries. A great addition to the dish is strawberry sauce.
Dessert with Oreo cookies
Cheesecake base is made from shortbread cake. Replacing it with Oreo chocolate cookies, you can prepare an original dessert with cream cheese.
You will need:
- butter - 75 g;
- Oreo cookies - 35 pcs.;
- cream cheese - 0.6 kg;
- or cottage cheese - 0.6 kg;
- sugar - 90 g;
- vanillin - 0.5 g;
- cream with a fat content of 33% or more - 180 g.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Grind butter and 25 pieces of cookies into crumbs.
- Form a base with a side out of it, compacting along the bottom of the form.
- Remove the mold with the workpiece in the cold.
- Combine cream cheese with sugar and vanilla.
- Beat the chilled cream until stable peaks form.
- Carefully introduce cream into the cheese mass and mix gently, but carefully.
- Add pieces of cookies.
- Transfer the filling to a chilled base.
- Keep the form with dessert in the cold for 4-6 hours.
Ready Oreo cheesecake can be decorated with chocolate chips, mint leaves or fresh strawberries.
Cake "Curd Cheesecake"
This dessert can be indulged even by supporters of proper or dietary nutrition, since it is prepared on the basis of cottage cheese, the benefits of which are undeniable.
More materials:cottage cheese cheesecake
For the cheesecake, it is advisable to use high fat cottage cheese and sour cream.
You will need:
- shortbread cookies - 180 g;
- butter - 80 g;
- sour cream without serum - 180 g;
- cottage cheese - 0.55 kg;
- sugar - 120 g;
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
- vanillin - 0.5 g.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Grind cookies and butter into small crumbs and distribute it along the bottom of the mold.
- Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes, heating it to 180 ℃.
- Reduce oven temperature to 160 ℃.
- Knock down cottage cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanillin until smooth and smooth.
- Introduce eggs alternately.
- Transfer the mixture to a mold.
- Bake 1 hour 20 minutes in a water bath at an oven temperature of 160 ℃.
- Do not remove the cheesecake form from the oven for 1 hour.
- Soak in the cold for 7 hours.
To get the product out of the mold, you need to draw along the edge of the mold with a dry, hot, thin knife. Serving the cake is recommended in the same way.Cheesecake is traditionally decorated with fresh fruits and berries.
With strawberry
Cheesecake can be decorated with any fruit or berries. But the sweet and sour taste of strawberries and its pronounced aroma are especially harmonious in combination with the creamy-curd taste of this delicacy.
To make a chocolate-strawberry cheesecake you will need:
- shortbread cookies - 160 g;
- chocolate with a cocoa content of 50% - 220 g;
- white chocolate - 70 g;
- cottage cheese - 0.5 kg;
- sugar - 160 g;
- sour cream - 0.5 kg;
- milk - 60 ml;
- butter - 90 g;
- strawberries - 0.3 kg;
- gelatin - 60 g.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Wash and dry strawberries.
- Cut it into layers.
- Grate the fourth part of dark chocolate.
- Grate cookies, chocolate and melted butter into a homogeneous crumb.
- Cover the bottom of the mold with foil.
- Transfer sand-oil mixture to it.
- Cool for 2 hours.
- Pour gelatin over water for 10 minutes.
- Dissolve it in a water bath.
- Break the remaining dark chocolate, pour over milk and melt over a low heat.
- Beat the curd with a blender, adding chocolate and gelatin to it.
- Beat with a mixer sour cream and combine it with the curd mixture.
- Put the filling on the cake.
- Cool for 8 hours.
- Put strawberries on a chilled dessert and sprinkle with white chocolate chips.
Strawberry sauce is served with strawberries cheesecake, which emphasizes the taste of the dessert and makes it even more pronounced.
How to cook without baking
To prepare a Cheesecake, the presence of an oven is not necessary, since the production technology of this cake provides for two methods, one of which is cold. Making cheesecake without baking is quite simple. The composition of such a treat, as a rule, includes a wide variety of fresh fruits and berries for the season.
To make an orange cheesecake you will need:
- chocolate shortbread cookies - 0.12 kg;
- cream - 0.5 l;
- cream cheese Philadelphia - 0.35 kg;
- sugar - 0.15 kg;
- butter - 0.1 kg;
- gelatin - 20 g;
- orange - 3 pcs.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Cook the butter and sand crumbs.
- Put it in a form.
- Remove the form in the cold.
- Pour gelatin with water and mix. Leave on for 15 minutes.
- Dissolve 2/3 of sugar in cream and bring the solution to a boil. Introduce cream cheese into it, mix thoroughly and remove from heat. This is custard.
- Dissolve 1/2 part of gelatin in a hot cream. Cool the mixture.
- Pour the cream into the mold with the base for the cake and put in the cold for 6 hours.
- Squeeze the juice from the oranges.
- Dissolve the remaining sugar in the juice and boil.
- Add the rest of the gelatin to the hot juice. Cool.
- Gently pour the cake with orange jelly.
- Chill the cake for 4 hours.
Decorate the finished dish to your taste with berries, mint, chocolate chips.
Cheesecake Cake Inside
This original pastry dish combines biscuit cakes for a classic cream cake and cheesecake, which is used as a filling.
Having decided to make a cake with cheesecake inside, you can experiment with various options of biscuits and cheesecakes. The main thing is to know the principle of assembly of this unusual dessert.
For cooking you will need:
- biscuit cakes with a diameter of 20 cm - 2 pcs.;
- 18 cm cheesecake - 1 pc.;
- curd cheese - 0.6 kg;
- cream with a fat content of at least 33% - 0.3 l;
- icing sugar - 80 g;
- vanillin - 0.5 g;
- fresh strawberries - 200 g;
- sugar - 50 g.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Boil strawberries with sugar for 2 minutes.
- Cool.
- Grind curd cheese with sugar and vanilla.
- Gradually add chilled cream to the curd mixture, stirring until a homogeneous consistency.
- Beat the cream with a mixer.
- Soak the biscuit with strawberry syrup.
- To assemble the cake, it is convenient to use a pastry ring. Put sponge cake.
- Put 1/3 of the cream on the cake, forming a side along the edge.
- Put 1/2 of the strawberry layer.
- Place a cheesecake in the middle of the cake.
- Put 1/2 of the remaining cream, forming a side.
- Spread the remaining strawberry layer.
- Cover the strawberries with a second sponge cake.
- Lubricate the surface of the biscuit with a thin layer of cream.
- Refrigerate for about 6 hours.
- Remove the cake from the pastry ring and decorate it with the remaining cream, fresh fruits and berries.
The cake looks very elegant. Ideal for special occasions.
Chocolate flavored
The chocolate cheesecake recipe appeared relatively recently and very quickly won millions of fans around the world. Today it is one of the most popular desserts.
You will need:
- chocolate shortbread "Oreo" - 280 g;
- butter - 90 g;
- milk - 10 g;
- cream cheese - 0.75 kg;
- sugar - 160 g;
- cream with a fat content of 33% - 220 ml;
- chocolate 60% - 150 g;
- instant coffee if desired - 10 g;
- cocoa powder - 10 g;
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Grate cookies with butter and milk into crumbs.
- Put it in a shape, compacting and forming a side.
- Bake at 180 ° C in the oven for about 5 minutes.
- Bring the cream to a boil.
- Pour in cocoa and coffee. Mix. Cool.
- Melt the chocolate.
- Grate cheese with sugar.
- Pour chocolate into the cheese mass and mix.
- Alternately introduce the eggs into the mixture.
- Pour in the cream with cocoa and coffee.
- Mix the mixture thoroughly.
- Put it in shape.
- Bake at 160 ℃ for about 1 hour 20 minutes.
- Do not remove from the open oven for 1 hour.
- Put the cooled dessert in the cold for 6-9 hours.
Before serving, remove the cold cheesecake from the mold and decorate with chocolate chips.
Mascarpone recipe
Most cheesecake recipes suggest using any cream cheese available. But the opinions of culinary experts were divided about cream cheese Mascarpone. Some people think that Mascarpone can and should be used in cheesecakes, while others categorically deny this.
Objectively, this cheese has a high fat content. Therefore, it is best suited for making a cheesecake dessert without baking or in combination with other creamy cheeses and baking the product at a lower temperature.
You will need:
- cookies - 0.2 kg;
- butter - 0.1 kg;
- cream cheese Philadelphia - 0.35 kg;
- Mascarpone cheese - 0.35 kg;
- icing sugar - 0.2 kg;
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- liquor - 40 ml;
- espresso - 40 ml.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Cook crumbs from cookies and butter.
- Combine both cheeses and powdered sugar.
- Add liquor and coffee to the cheese mass in a thin stream. Do not stop stirring.
- Add eggs one at a time.
- Put the filling in the form.
- Bake for 3 hours at 100 100.
- Leave the form for 2 hours in the oven.
- Soak in the cold for 6 hours.
Ready dessert is decorated with mint leaves. It goes well with berry sauce.
Cheesecake New York
The classic New York cheesecake, according to the original recipe, is prepared exclusively with Philadelphia cream cheese. This allows you to ultimately enjoy the very refined taste of the impeccable dessert of American cuisine.
You will need:
- shortbread cookies - 0.3 kg;
- butter - 0.2 kg;
- cream cheese Philadelphia - 0.9 kg;
- sugar - 0.2 kg;
- chicken eggs - 5 pcs.;
- sour cream with a fat content of more than 40% - 0.16 kg;
- vanillin - 0.5 g;
- lemon peel - 5 g;
- lemon juice - 30 ml.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Make crumbs from cookies and butter and distribute it in shape.
- Chill in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Prepare the filling from the rest of the products.
- Put it on the base.
- Bake in a water bath for 1 hour 20 minutes at 160 ℃.
- Do not remove from the oven for 1 hour.
- Remove the completely cooled form with dessert in the cold overnight.
Ready New York cheesecake is decorated with mint and berries.
Cooking in a slow cooker
The multicooker will help speed up the process of making Cheesecake. This is a kind of express cooking classic cheesecake.
For a banana cheesecake you will need:
- banana - 3 pcs.;
- cream cheese - 0.5 kg;
- shortbread cookies - 240 g;
- butter - 75 g;
- sour cream - 160 g;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- lemon juice - 50 ml.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Cook crumbs from cookies, grated with butter.
- Cover the bottom of the multicooker, greased with butter, parchment.
- Lay out the foundation.
- Prepare the filling from the rest of the ingredients.
- Put it on the base.
- Cook in the “Baking” mode for 1 hour 10 minutes.
- Do not remove from the multicooker for 1 hour.
To decorate the finished cheesecake, pieces of banana, chocolate chips, whipped cream and melted chocolate are suitable.
A cheesecake for a cook is a great opportunity for experimentation and, possibly, creating your own, unique recipe for this amazing dessert.