Cheesecake - the most delicious dessert based on cheese or cottage cheese. It is cooked in many restaurants and cafes around the world. There is no real cheesecake recipe, and chefs in every country in the world cook it by adding what they like.
Most housewives find it difficult to make cheesecake on their own, but this is a big mistake. Making this dessert is simple, and an ordinary lover can easily cope with the recipe for the most common version of the New York pie, and adding ingredients to the recipe at its discretion may create a new, unique taste.
We also know many interesting recipes and will definitely tell you how to make a cheesecake, but first, let's plunge into the history of a wonderful dish.
Dessert story
Someone believes that the so-called progenitor of modern cheesecake appeared in ancient Greece. Historians have found in one of the books a detailed recipe for the cheesecake, which was reinforced by the Olympians.
Others believe that the recipe came to us from the Ancient East. Then honey, lemon were added to the cottage cheese and baked. They say that this dish got to Europe through the Crusaders, and there it reached America. So, thanks to American chefs, we can enjoy the most popular dessert in the whole world.
America has amended the dessert recipe. So, for example, one American farmer, trying to repeat French cheese, created a cream, which is now most often used for this dish. And the kind of cake to which we are accustomed, with a dense consistency, was obtained by the famous confectioners from the Turf restaurant, they were the first to replace the cottage cheese with a new cheese.
Of course, each country prepares cheesecake according to its own recipe, changing cheeses and cottage cheese. For example, Italians prefer riccot cheese, the French prefer goat cheese, and in Israel fatty cottage cheese. We will share with you recipes and photos of making cheesecake at home.
Cake in the cake is also prepared to the taste of everyone. For those who want to make cheesecake at home without baking, you can use cookies or ready-made cakes instead of cakes. It is fast and convenient. And for those wishing to cook with baked goods - shortcrust pastry.
But no matter what cheese is taken as the basis and whatever the cake is, the main classic cheesecake recipe should still be given a creamy taste, lemon and a drop of honey.
Pie Cheese Selection
As the name implies ("cheesecake" - cheese cake), the main ingredient of the cake is cheese or cottage cheese. So, we need to understand what cheese for cheesecake to look for on the shelves of the supermarket, because not everyone is suitable.
To make the pie, you need cream cheese, a creamy mass with a delicate taste. Processed cheeses are inappropriate here, although they are similar to each other.
Thus, Philadelphia cheese is suitable for a pie; it is included in the recipe for a classic cheesecake. This cheese is made from sour cream and cream, it has an incredibly delicate, pleasant taste. Mascarpone can replace it; this cheese resembles a cream of fat. It is neutral in taste and is suitable for any recipe. With mascarpone cheese, tiramisu is cooked.
You can also try riccot cheese.
Most housewives use cottage cheese as the basis for the pie, replacing them with expensive types of cheeses, but professional chefs believe that the cottage cheese acidifies the dish. But we found a couple of good recipes with cottage cheese without a hint of sourness.
It’s better for chefs to buy cheese in a briquette rather than in tubes, because the cheese has already been whipped in them. When preparing the pie, we will need to beat the cheese again, which can lead to excessive airiness - we do not need this.
But speaking of the American recipe, the main prototype of all modern versions of cheese pie, no matter what cheese is taken as the basis and whatever the cake, the classic cheesecake should still give a creamy taste, lemon and a drop of honey - its main taste.
Classic Cheesecake
Classic pie is the most common option. It is easy to prepare, does not take much time, and also consists of simple products. Refined with new cheese, the classic cheesecake is called "New York", the name of the city in which the cheese cake has gained its immense popularity.
Now we will tell you how to make cheesecake with pastries. For cooking you will need:
The basis:
- Cookies or crackers - 500-600 g ("Jubilee" is perfect).
- Butter - 150 g.
- Spices optional: cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla.
Filling:
- Philadelphia Cheese - 450 g
- Flour - 3 tbsp. l
- Egg - 4 pcs.
- Sugar - 1.5 cups.
- Vanilla sugar - 1 tbsp. l
- Lemon.
If desired, you can decorate your cheese cake with icing from sour cream and sugar.
Cooking process
Use a meat grinder, blender or manually chop cookies. Melt the butter in a steam bath and combine with the biscuits. Sugar, cinnamon to taste and mix well. Put the thoroughly mixed mass into the mold and press well over the entire surface of the bottom. If you wish, you can make walls for the future cake, after having greased the sides of the mold.
After laying the cake, put it in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees. Let it cool, but for now let's take care of the cream. It is not necessary to take it out of the form.
Put the cheese in advance so that it becomes room temperature, mix it with sugar, zest and lemon juice, add vanilla. Beat the mass at low speed, gradually adding flour and eggs.
Pour the resulting mass into a cake pan, distribute it evenly and put into the oven for an hour.
After taking out the cake, give it a little rest.
Before serving, you can decorate the cake with glaze, berries, syrup, cocoa, confectionery modeling, chocolate lace, coconut chips at your discretion.
Cheesecake with curd condensed milk
Do you know how to cook cottage cheese cheesecake? Now we will tell. As mentioned earlier, the hostesses preparing cheesecakes found a good substitute for expensive cheese, it turned out really tasty, but with their own nuances in cooking. Cheesecake, or rather curd, has an incredible aroma and a pleasant caramel taste. A good treat for the sweet tooth, a wonderful dessert for tea.
So, let's figure out how to cook a cheesecake without baking with cottage cheese and condensed milk.
To make a cheesecake you will need:
- can of boiled condensed milk;
- butter - 200 g;
- cookies or crackers - 400-500 g;
- cottage cheese - 750 g;
- nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds) - 50 g;
- gelatin - 30 g;
- half a glass of water.
Grind cookies and nuts in a blender until fine crumbs. Mix it with butter pre-melted in a steam bath.
For convenience, cover the round shape with baking paper, cover the bottom and sides. Put the mass in the finished form, build the edges. Tamp tightly and refrigerate for half an hour.
Mix gelatin and half a glass of cold water, leave for half an hour. The secret to making cheesecake without baking is gelatin, which will help the future cake keep its shape.
The filling starts with cottage cheese and condensed milk, mix these two ingredients until smooth. Use a mixer.
Heat the gelatin a little, add a spoonful of cottage cheese to it and mix well. Return it to the main mass and mix.
Put everything on a frozen cake and put it in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours. Best for the night.
To decorate a cheesecake, we recommend caramel topping, grated chocolate, a little cream or whipped cream, nuts or coconut. What a pleasant aroma from him! And no sourness due to cottage cheese.
We hope you figured out how to make a cheesecake without baking?
As you can see, this is very simple. Even an inexperienced hostess will cook a cheesecake at home. The recipes are the most varied, designed for a different range of products, in addition, having familiarized yourself with the principle of preparation, you can give free rein to imagination.
Zebra Cheesecake
How do you like a fantasy like a colored cheesecake? Why buy such a dessert in a supermarket if you know how to make cheesecake at home, bright, tasty and fragrant.
You probably thought about dyes, but not every hostess in the kitchen has a couple of jars of colored dye. Now we will tell you how to make a cheesecake with a bright pattern and an unusual color without the use of dyes. Let's get started.
For him, in addition to the list for the New York recipe, you will need cocoa or some chocolate melted in a water bath.
The principle of preparation is no different from the classic "New York". Grind the cookies into crumbs and mix them with melted butter. In the form, form a cake with sides and send for 10 minutes to the oven.
Add sugar, vanilla to room temperature cheese and mix with a mixer, gradually adding eggs and flour.
Divide the finished homogeneous mass into two parts. In one of them, add cocoa to the color you want.
Now let's start creating a zebra. Pour a little white cheese mass on the cake, in its center, then in the center of the white - mass with cocoa. According to this principle, pour and pour until the whole filling is over. Send to the oven.
Cheesecake hour baked.
Above it is not always neat, so use some decoration: chocolate grater, cream, coffee. Try using black and white chocolate or plain cream and chocolate to support the main idea of the dessert.
On the cut, the finished cheese pie is striped, just like a zebra.
Marble Cheesecake
Marble cheesecake is prepared in the same way. From several colors.
Let's try changing the color, for example, take pink. No, we will not use dye, instead we will take berries. So, lilac and light purple can be obtained using blueberries or currants, pink - using raspberries, strawberries or cherries, and green - kiwi.
Here's how to make a marbled cheesecake with riccott cheese and cherries.
Add berries to the standard list of ingredients.
Berries in the pie can be used both fresh and frozen. You can also try jam or preserves. In the case of cherries, pitted jam. But be careful: if you use jam, do not add sugar to the filling.
Prepare the base according to the previous recipe.
Mix cheese, sugar, vanilla, flour and eggs with a mixer and divide in two. Grind the berries in a blender and add to the separated part.
Pour one and the other mass gradually in circles or on different sides, but do not mix them into one uniform color. From above draw marble stains. Take a toothpick or a match and stretch the red spots with thin lines, blend it somewhere, somewhere, on the contrary, pull up the white one. Marble does not have a specific pattern, so fantasize by stretching colored spots.
Bake your cheese pie for an hour. We promise you will like this recipe. The berry aroma is beautiful.
Remember to decorate before serving.
If we talk about berries, then here's a note. Add fresh berries to the cheese mass, mix them gently and pour them with gentle, gentle movements. Pay attention to the beauty in the cut. Even in this form, the berries will give an excellent aroma and an incredible fresh flavor.
Homemade Curd Cheesecake
For those who live in a village or in the private sector or, perhaps, go to the cottage or to relatives, a recipe for homemade cottage cheese pie is suitable. Does your grandmother hold a cow? If yes, then this is wonderful, because dishes made from home-made natural products are the most healthy. Despite the calorie content of desserts, one cannot but agree with the fact that natural products inspire much more confidence in those who care about their health.
So, we must tell you how to cook cheesecake with homemade cottage cheese, be sure to try this recipe!
To prepare, stock up on the list.
The basis:
- Butter - 150 g.
- Flour - 250 g.
- Cocoa - 25 g.
- Powdered Sugar - 50 g.
- Baking powder - a teaspoon.
- Milk - 50 g.
Filling:
- Cottage cheese - 500 g.
- Egg - 2.
- Powdered Sugar - 160 g
- Milk - 50 g.
- Lemon.
Sift flour before cooking. To it add icing sugar and baking powder. Mix everything thoroughly. Add room temperature butter, cocoa and some milk to the same place.
Knead the dough and place in the freezer.
Getting to the filling: Separate the yolk from the protein. Mix the yolks with cottage cheese, sugar and lemon zest (about a tablespoon), beat them thoroughly. Whip the squirrels until foam separately and send to the curd. Shuffle.
Grate the dough and spread evenly. Form the walls. Pour the curd mass from above and put in the oven for 45 minutes. Here's how to make a cheesecake by baking your cake.
Curd cake can be made closed by covering the curd mass with dough.
Cheesecake without cottage cheese
There is an excellent recipe on how to make a cheesecake with an incredible delicate taste. What a divine smell he has, how he melts in his mouth! Yes, now you will learn how to cook cheesecake without cottage cheese with a little secret.
Here are the ingredients we need:
- Cookies - 400 g.
- Butter - 150 g.
- Flour - 4 tbsp. l
- Fat sour cream (22%) - 400 g.
- Sugar - 1.5 cups.
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Peach - 2 pcs.
- Vanilla sugar - 1 tbsp. l
As you already understand, the basket for the pie is made in the same way as in the previous recipes using cookies as the basis, while we prepare the filling from sour cream.
Beat four eggs with sugar and vanilla. Add sour cream there and gradually, stirring, add flour. Beat well. Cut the peach into small pieces and send to the filling.
Send to bake in the oven for 45 minutes, preheated to 180 degrees. Take a look at him.
Peach will give an incredible delicate taste to your dish. Excellent recipe! Note: try adding banana to this recipe.
Check out another popular way to decorate cheesecake. Jelly with berries on top of the finished pie. A small layer of jelly will harden in about an hour and a half. For the sake of such beauty, you can wait.
Without removing the cake pan, prepare the jelly. Put the berries or other fruits on the cheesecake. Pour a little jelly with a gentle, fine stream without ruining the composition of the berries and allow to freeze in the refrigerator.
Simple actions will give incredible results. Real holiday dessert.
For a bright children's holiday, pre-cooked pieces of jelly of different colors can be added to the filling for cheesecake. This will diversify the color of the dessert and will delight the guests.
Cooking nuances
After reading how to make a cheesecake at home, you must have decided that it is easy. It is, however, it has its own nuances.
- In the cooking process, we need to beat the filling. This is best done with a whisk or fork, but, of course, I want to use a minimum of effort, so use the mixer at minimum speed. The cake should not rise, and with slow whipping, a minimum of air will get into the filling. Beat the cheese only once, and when adding new ingredients, such as berries or cocoa, use a whisk or a fork.
- To prevent your ideal form of cheesecake from cracking during baking, put a mold with water under it. Only half fill the mold with water. It’s great if the form with water is much larger than the form with the pie. Cracks on the cake appear from unnecessary time in the oven. So check out your cheesecake. Ready, it hardens on the sides, but trembles a little in the center. Turn off the oven, but leave the cake inside for half an hour to let it cool.
In any case, if you have a crack, decorate the cake in this place with berry, chocolate sprinkles, cocoa, coffee, jelly.
We hope you get the answer to the question of how to make cheesecake. The photos in our article demonstrate only the simplest, but very bright options for decorating a delicious cheese pie. Imagine, create and create, and be sure to share the recipe.