Most people believe that cheesecake (the photo of which is presented in the article) was invented and distributed by the Americans on the planet. However, in fact, their main participation in this dish is the name. The delicacy has a much more ancient history, since the Greeks “invented” it, reinforcing the strength of the participants in the olympiads with a cheesecake more than eight thousand years ago. In the States, they added it with cream - and now dessert is perceived solely as a national American dish. There are a million recipes, but today we will prepare raspberry cheesecake, since the taste of baking from this berry becomes unforgettable.
Some subtleties
Not always a cheesecake with berries succeeds the first time. And all because the housewives are not aware of certain rules and tricks.
- Do not stand too long baking in the oven - from overheating inevitably cracks appear.
- Avoid opening the oven door excessively. Here are the rules, as when baking a biscuit: if you slam the lid, it will fall off.
- For readiness, any, including raspberry, cheesecake is checked not by piercing (this can never be done!), But by shaking. If only the center oscillates, it’s time to turn off the oven.
- You can’t immediately take out the form - the delicacy should be cooled in the oven.
- If you want to get extremely tender filling, you can’t bake cheesecake in the oven, you need to use a water bath (which not everyone will agree to). And if you prefer density, add corn flour or starch to it.
- The main ingredient of the dessert is cream cheese. Ideally - "Philadelphia", but you can not always find it in kind. “Almette” serves as an alternative in many recipes, and our housewives perfectly replace all these delicacies with cottage cheese.
- The temperature of all components should be room temperature, unless, of course, you agree to mask the cracks on the cheesecake.
Now you can start cooking.
Raspberry Cheesecake for the Lazy
If you follow this recipe, you will not have to mess with the oven. A bag of gelatin is diluted according to the instructions written on it, and left to swell. Grams of 400 friable cookies (even suitable for “tea”) are crushed into crumbs (but not dust!) And mixed with melted butter, which you need to take a 200-gram package. The "dough" is distributed in a form with a good ramming and hides in the refrigerator. The swollen gelatin is placed on the hot plate and heated until it dissolves. In a bowl, whip a glass of cream, sugar and vanilla, which are put to taste, after which 400 grams of fermented milk product unloved by many children are added - this time we are preparing an almost classic cottage cheese cheesecake . When the gelatin has cooled to a tolerable temperature, it is introduced into the total mass. Finally raspberries are poured and very carefully mixed. The “basket” is filled with all this and cleans up for two hours in the cool. Dessert is ready to eat!
Raspberry Chocolate Treat
This time we will have a cheesecake with pastries. The recipe advises you to buy for him sugar cookies like “Baked Milk”. It will take about a third of a kilogram. The cookies are again crushed to the crumbs and mixed with a piece of butter, this time melted. The mixed mass is distributed in the form and for ten minutes is cleaned in a not too hot oven. For the filling, 600 grams of soft cream cheese are kneaded or rubbed, combined and kneaded with a whisk with fat sour cream and sugar (150 grams of both). After two eggs and a yolk are introduced; after each addition, the filling is carefully mixed. At the very end, two tablespoons of flour are poured. A 100-gram bar of white chocolate is finely chopped or rubbed coarsely and, together with a third kilo of raspberries, interferes with the mass. It is placed on the base, and the mold returns to the oven for three quarters of an hour. You can eat raspberry cheesecake after four hours, which he must spend in the refrigerator.
English variation
In it, a cheesecake with berries is prepared without cookies and other substitutes for it. Of 60 grams of butter, 130 flour, half a spoonful of baking powder, three tablespoons of sugar and a small bag of coconut flakes, a rather crumbly dough is kneaded. About a quarter of an hour, cake is baked from it at standard temperature. In a mashed "Philadelphia" or, in extreme cases, mashed cottage cheese (400 g), half a bar of white chocolate is rubbed and a glass of fat cream whipped with three tablespoons of sugar is added (take brown). A packet of gelatin diluted according to all the rules is added, the filling is kneaded and poured onto the cake. After an hour of standing in the cold, raspberries, strawberries and kiwi plates are generously spread on top of it, all this luxury is sprinkled with chocolate chips and left all night for final solidification.
Portion Cheesecakes
It will be just a salvation for mothers whose children are constantly quarreling over the one who got more of something tasty. Now each of the wreckers will get a personal raspberry cheesecake. Grams of 100 friable cookies are finely crumbled (a blender or a meat grinder will help) and mixed with two tablespoons of melted butter and one and a half tablespoons of sugar. A full spoonful of the mixture is placed in a spread or oiled cupcake tin and tamped. Ten minutes in the oven - and we get to cool. A glass of raspberries is mashed with a blender, rubbed through a fine sieve to remove seeds and mixed with a spoonful of sugar. Almost a pound of soft cream cheese is whipped to splendor, a glass of sugar is poured, then a little salt, a little vanilla sugar and, in turn, two eggs, and finally raspberries. When you achieve uniformity, stop so as not to drive excess air into the mixture. The filling is laid out in baskets, which are cleaned in the oven for a third of an hour for baking, and then - for four hours in the cold to freeze.
Extras: lemon cream
If you did not know, you can make cheesecake without gelatin. And it will turn out tasty, tight and at the same time airy. The basis is already made in the usual way: a crumb of a packet of creamy or sugar cookies (200 g) is combined with half a packet of butter (naturally, it is melted), a cake-basket is formed in a baking dish and put in the oven for about 10 minutes. lemon and two tablespoons of juice from it (mixed with half a bag of baking powder), about 600 grams of fat cottage cheese, an almost full glass of cream or sour cream and half a glass of sugar. All this is whipped - with a mixer or a blender. Then, one by one, with intermediate beating, three eggs are introduced. The filling is evenly spread over the cake, and the “pie” is baked for an hour in the oven. Five minutes before being ready, the surface wakes abundantly with berries so that the raspberry cheesecake is saturated with their aroma and juice, but the berries themselves have not cringed. Lemon cream is prepared from a semi-finished product and applied to an already cooled dessert.
Poppy seed cheesecake
The base is prepared as usual: two glasses of crumbs from cookies or crackers are combined with half a pack of butter (using a blender), two large spoons of sugar and two small spoons of lemon juice. While the basket is baking, the filling is prepared. And for her, two tablespoons of poppy are steamed for about seven minutes in a half glass of boiling water, a pound of low-fat cottage cheese is whipped with a glass of sugar. After 200 grams of cream cheese and three eggs are added. The filling is divided into three. In two parts, the poppy is added, one remains clean. Poppy filling is laid out along the sides, the middle is made out as usual. On top of it, it is covered with raspberries. The form is covered with parchment and hides in the oven for 50 minutes. It turns out not only delicious, but also very beautiful cheesecake - the photo will confirm the validity of these words.
Japanese cheesecake
A rather complicated recipe with an original base. Six eggs are divided into proteins and yolks. The first, first with a pinch of salt, are whipped to a foam, after sugar is added (two-thirds of a glass), and to non-falling peaks. A cube of butter is rubbed with a quarter kilo of cream cheese until smooth, the juice of half a lemon is squeezed out there, after which the yolks are introduced in turn. Next milk is poured - and again the mass is kneaded. Three tablespoons of flour are combined with a spoonful of starch and a quarter spoonful of baking powder; this mixture is gradually poured into a common container. Finally, tightly whipped squirrels are gently mixed. The dough is gently distributed in a form that is placed in a deep baking sheet and placed in the oven. Boiling water is poured into the sheet, the oven should be heated to 150 - this will be a replacement for the water bath. Exactly an hour do not touch anything! After extremely carefully remove, cover with raspberries and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Baileys Cheesecake
He will need a pack of chocolate or coffee cookies, which must be grinded and mixed with melted butter, a little less than half the package. A cake is formed from the mass, this time without sides, and baked for about ten minutes. A mixture of chocolates is melted: bitter - a small piece, and dark, preferably with brandy or other alcohol - a whole tile. A quarter of a liter of thick cream is whipped into foam, at the same time the same is done with soft cheese like “Almette” (250 g), combined with two tablespoons of powdered sugar and three - Baileys liquor, as an option you can take “Kalua”. The mass is combined with cream and melted chocolate by mixing with a mixer operating at low speed. The filling is placed exactly on the cake, decorated with raspberries, and the cheesecake is hidden in the refrigerator for four hours.
Condensed Milk Cheesecake
The base is made from cookies (it would be nice - chocolate), yolk and butter in a traditional way and pre-baked all the same ten minutes. In this recipe, the filling is interesting. For it, a kilogram of cottage cheese with three eggs and a standard can of condensed milk (not boiled) is whipped into a single mass. It is poured into a prepared base, the form is placed in a pan with water poured up to a third of its height and sent to the furnace for almost half an hour at a temperature of 200 Celsius. After the expiration of the allotted time, the incandescence is reduced to 170, and the form does not take out another third of an hour. When the cheesecake with condensed milk cools well, it is set overnight in the cold to gain density. Before serving, the surface is artistically painted with raspberry jam.
Vanilla cheesecake
This recipe is slightly different from those already described. One third of a kilo of cookies (now sandy) crumbles and connects with a blender to half a packet of butter - this we have already passed. The dough is distributed in the form - this is also familiar. However, after this, the form is hidden in the refrigerator for half an hour - this is already a novelty. While the base is cooling, a third of a liter of sour cream or very greasy cream is whipped with a bag of vanilla sugar and 150 grams of ordinary. A quarter kilo of Philadelphia or its analogue is laid next to the mixer, and at the very end, without stopping the apparatus, three eggs. The filling is poured into a prepared basket, fresh or frozen berries are laid out on top, and raspberry cheesecake goes for baking, which will last exactly an hour at 160 degrees. After which - bon appetit!