There are many recipes for cheesecakes: classic from yeast dough, on sour cream, fresh and even from puff pastry. Filling from homemade cottage cheese is considered traditional, but resourceful craftsmen bake cheesecakes with mashed potatoes, thick jam, pieces of fruit and even millet. This article discusses simple recipes for cheesecakes with cottage cheese from different types of dough, and photos will help to cope with cooking without much effort.
Grandma's recipe
Probably no one will argue that the most delicious cheesecakes are made from yeast dough prepared by your beloved grandmother. Families rich in tradition and respect for their ancestors have a proprietary recipe that is inherited along with family heirlooms and wise instructions.
According to one of these cheesecake recipes, you can cook this delicious pastry for your household. To prepare the dough, you will need the following ingredients:
- 50 grams of raw pressed yeast;
- 300 ml of milk;
- three eggs;
- 120 grams of sugar;
- 80 grams of butter;
- 4.5 cups flour.
Cooking dough
To prepare the dough for cheesecakes, it is necessary to warm the milk and dissolve in it half a serving of sugar and yeast, you can also add a pinch of salt. Leave the mass for ten minutes in order for the yeast to activate: a foam will appear on the surface of the milk, indicating that the process has begun. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with the remaining sugar, add the melted butter and mix to a uniform consistency; vanilla may be added if desired for greater flavoring of the dough. When the dough is doubled, add the egg mixture to it, mix and pour the flour in small portions, kneading the dough.
It is possible that part of the flour will remain, since the level of gluten can be different - you do not need to try to use all the flour if the dough has already formed in a soft lump. Knead it thoroughly on the table until perfect elasticity, and then place it in a clean dish and cover with a towel. Leave the dough in a warm place for two hours so that it doubles in size. When it comes up, it will have to be crushed and left again for another forty minutes in the same place.
Filling
Usually cheesecakes with curd filling are prepared, for the preparation of which it is necessary to mix 0.5 kg of cottage cheese with 0.5 tbsp. sugar, two eggs and 2-3 tbsp. spoons of thick sour cream. It’s also better to add some vanilla. Stir the mass with a blender or fork, removing grit. Optionally, you can add steamed raisins, pieces of dried apricots to the filling, but they are not in the classic cheesecake recipe.
How to steam raisins? Pour dried fruits with a small amount of boiling water for ten minutes, and then simply throw them in a colander or sieve, add to the filling. Instead of vanillin, you can use lemon or orange zest to flavor the dough or filling, which will make the baking not so banal.
Shaping and baking
Divide the finished dough into small round pieces, which you need to slightly crush with your fingers, making a recess in the center so that a small side remains at the edges. This is necessary so that the curd lies in a uniform layer and does not flow over the edges. Put curd filling on each cake and place on a baking sheet.
Give the dough a little more (the products should increase by at least a third in size), and then bake cheesecakes in the oven, after having greased the top with a beaten egg. The temperature regime of the oven should be 200 ° C, and the baking itself lasts an average of half an hour. Remove the finished products from the baking sheet and cover with a clean cloth towel - this will make the dough soft, and the cheesecakes will become incredibly tender, preserving this property even the next day.
Royal cheesecake
This baking is more reminiscent of a pie than traditional cheesecakes, but even in antiquity all round open pies were called cheesecakes, because “vatra” is a synonym for a burning hearth, and the pie was an integral part of it as a symbol of wealth and prosperity. Over time, cheesecakes began to be made portioned, small, and the name remained. Today it looks like an open bun with cottage cheese. Only in the hinterlands they still continue to call cheesecakes all kinds of open pies with any fillings.
To prepare a royal cheesecake with a prescription, you will need these products:
- For the test: 400 grams of flour, 160 grams of margarine, a little salt and soda, as well as 50 grams of granulated sugar.
- For the filling: 300 grams of cottage cheese, two eggs, 120 grams of sugar and 1 \ 4 tsp. vanillin. If the cottage cheese is dry, then you can add a couple of spoons of sour cream or yogurt.
Cooking
The dough for the royal cheesecake is usually used shortbread, so in general the dessert is quite high-calorie - about 630 kcal per one-serving portion. The classic option is to grind flour with margarine into crumbs, add sugar and baking soda to it, if necessary, a little ice water, if the lump of dough is poorly formed. Next, wrap the dough in a film and place in the refrigerator for an hour, so that it comes to condition. Then it is divided into two parts: from a larger piece, make the basis for the curd cheesecake: roll it into a 5 mm thick layer and lay it out in a round detachable shape, pressing it with your fingers. The remaining piece of dough should be placed in the freezer for ten minutes: it should freeze slightly.
To prepare the filling, you just need to mix the ingredients and lightly beat with a blender to a uniform consistency, and then put the mass on the dough. Grate the dough from the freezer directly on the curd, while distributing it evenly over the surface. Place the pie in the oven and bake until cooked at a temperature of 230 ° C.
Cheesecake in a slow cooker
Taking into account modern technologies, it is already possible not to use the oven for baking pies, cakes and cookies: now a universal machine - a multicooker, can do this very well, with which it is easy not only to cook first and second dishes, but even bake dough products. A royal cheesecake in a slow cooker is a very real thing, only the top layer is not as golden as in the oven. Otherwise, there are no differences at all. Essential Ingredients:
- 500 grams of cottage cheese;
- 1 tbsp. flour;
- 160 grams of butter;
- 250 grams of sugar;
- 1/4 tsp vanilla sugar;
- four eggs;
- 1/2 tsp soda.
Step cooking
Following the cheesecake recipe with cottage cheese step by step, you should first prepare the filling: mix the cottage cheese with vanilla and four tablespoons of sugar, add the eggs and beat the mass with a blender. Next, you need to cook flour crumbs, which will be the basis for the cake.
Melt butter mixed with sugar in a saucepan and combine with flour, carefully working with a spoon until the mass turns into crumbs, reminiscent of shtrezelnoy sprinkling: this will be the basis for the cheesecake. Divide it into two parts, place one in the multicooker bowl and squeeze slightly with a spoon, forming a layer, then pour on the curd filling, and on top - the remaining oily crumb, distributing it evenly over the surface. Turn the multicooker into the “Baking” mode, set the timer for 1.45 minutes and wait for the process to end. At the same time, it is undesirable to take the cheesecake out of the mold immediately after the timer signal - it is better to give it time to cool for fifteen minutes.
Yeast-Free Cheesecakes
This cheesecake recipe will appeal to those who don't like yeast dough. Moreover, both the filling and the dough are prepared on the basis of cottage cheese, which makes cooking very convenient, because the number of ingredients is small:
- For the test: 200 grams of cottage cheese, four eggs, an incomplete glass of sugar + a pinch of vanilla, one hundred grams of butter, 1/2 teaspoon of soda and 600 grams of flour.
- For the filling: 200 grams of cottage cheese, 6 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, two eggs and a spoonful of thick sour cream. You can also add vanilla or lemon peel for flavor.
How to cook?
The dough for cheesecakes is prepared as simple as possible: the cottage cheese with sugar and eggs is slightly beaten with a blender, flavor is added, melted butter and soda. Next, sift the flour and mix it into the base in small portions, achieving a soft plastic dough that will stick a little to your hands or table. Let the dough lie down for twenty minutes, in the meantime, you can prepare the filling: mix all the necessary ingredients together. If desired, you can add a hundred grams of raisins or dried apricots steamed in boiling water, cut into small pieces.
Roll out the dough into a layer five millimeters thick and cut out circles with a large glass, a little hoop the middle of each cake, forming a depression in which the filling is placed. You can also do this with the bottom of a smaller glass, pressing it to the dough. When all the cheesecakes are formed, transfer them to a baking tray greased with grease, and using a silicone brush, grease the top of each product with a beaten egg. Bake cheesecakes in the oven until rosy, turning on the oven to a mode of 200 ° C.
From puff pastry
You can also cook cheesecakes from puff pastry: somewhat unusual, but very tasty and fast if cooked from frozen dough, bought in the semi-finished products department. This will require only half a kilogram of dough, three hundred grams of cottage cheese, three eggs and 100 grams of sugar. Defrost the dough on the table and cut into squares with a side of 6 - 8 cm. To form cheesecakes from puff pastry, you can do this in the following ways:
- The traditional form for this product is a circle: cut circles with a large glass, divide everything received in half, cut a center with a smaller glass from one half. Then put a circle with a hole on the cake without it, put 2 - 3 tablespoons of the filling in the center. Cheesecake ready for baking!
- According to the same principle, make cheesecakes, while cutting out only a circle of small diameter for the upper part. As a result, the products will be square with a round filling in the middle.
- Fold each square half diagonally and cut a corner with a knife, then turn the dough and wrap the corners on the side of the cuts, as shown in the photo. Put the curd filling in the center. This form is unconventional for cheesecakes, but quite interesting.
After that, grease each product with a beaten egg and place the baking tray with cheesecakes in the oven, heated to 220 ° C. Bake until cooked, then garnish with dried fruits, marmalade or fresh berries if desired.
According to the same principle, you can cook cheesecakes with other fillings, guided by the basic rules for making dough. The filler can be anything from traditional potatoes (with cabbage or mushrooms) and ending with more exotic ones. Homemade cheesecakes can be eaten as an independent dish. They are satisfying, but also high-calorie.