Summer, heat ... In such weather, I just do not want to turn on the oven. After all, the kitchen will then turn into a hot shop of the smelter. On the other hand, I want to pamper myself and loved ones with some delicious homemade dessert. There is an exit! This is a cheesecake with cottage cheese without baking. Mankind has accumulated many recipes for such a dish. Another thing is that these cheesecakes are prepared (as the name implies) with cream cheese. But here we are modifying the classic recipe and will use cottage cheese. This will reduce the cost of the dish and reduce its calorie content from 600 kcal to 400 per serving. Classic cheesecake is a two-layer cake. In it, the bottom layer is “dough”, and the top is a tender souffle. The perfect dessert for a summer tea party!
Basic Recipe Basics
The French believe that the first cheesecake with cottage cheese without baking was born from them, in the province of Normandy. The British dispute this and claim that the recipe for a chilled syrniki was invented in Foggy Albion. Whatever it was, but the dessert, for which it is necessary to stock up with a lot of fat cottage cheese and cream, could be born only in the area where numerous herds of fat cows roam the endless green meadows. In America, cheesecake is baked, and in the Old World it is cooked without using an oven. For the lower layer we take 250 grams of shortbread cookies and grind it into small crumbs using a rolling pin or a blender. We heat half a pack of butter. Water them with crumbs and mix. We spread the mass in a round shape with removable sides and carefully tamp. This base is used for any cheesecakes, including American ones, which are then baked.
Ideas for a test foundation
The basic recipe (regular shortbread cookies and melted butter) can be supplemented. Chocolate harmonizes perfectly with cottage cheese. You can rub the tiles into crumbs, add oil, mix. The easiest option is to use chocolate chip cookies. Berries with cottage cheese is a classic of the genre. Transfer it to the cake. Add a handful of blueberries or raspberries to the blender bowl and grind them with cookies. Here is another idea borrowed from the Italian dessert Tiramisu. Dip the Savoyardi cookies (or any dry biscuit) for a second in brewed natural coffee with liquor. Spread our cheesecake base into a square shape. A recipe without baking with cottage cheese implies that the top layer is already ready. We spread the cheese souffle and put the cake to cool in the refrigerator for several hours. During this time, the savoyard soaked in coffee should enter into a strong union with the curd filling.
Cheese layer
Squeeze the juice of one lemon into a glass. Add three teaspoons of gelatin. We put in a water bath until the crystals are dissolved. Then pour a quarter cup of sugar. Continue stirring until it dissolves. Whisk two cups of fat cream, gradually adding 225 grams of mascarpone and 250 g of cream cheese. At the end, pour a bag of vanilla. Combine the creamy mass with gelatin dissolved in lemon juice. We knead everything well and fill the bottom layer. The reverse side of the knife level the surface. This is how cheesecake is made. A classic recipe from cottage cheese without baking allows you to replace two expensive ingredients with a pound of cottage cheese. However, it should be as fat as possible. And before you beat, you need to wipe it through a sieve. After cooling, the cake can be decorated with icing sugar or berries.
Cherry biscuit and cottage cheese cheesecake without baking
In principle, in any recipe for this dessert, the lower crust is cooked the same way. We melt the butter in a saucepan and pour the crumbled cookies on it. The quantity and, in fact, the thickness of the lower layer depends on you. If you follow the figure and want to create the easiest dessert possible , take 200 grams of cookies from wholemeal. In order for it to create a stable layer, 90 g of butter is enough. Four lemons and cut the zest with a fine grater. Squeeze juice into a separate bowl. Knead with a packet of ricotta curd and six tablespoons of sugar. One hundred and fifty milliliters of culinary cream whipped, combine with the cheese mass. You need to stir with a wooden spoon! In lemon juice, add three and a half tablespoons of gelatin and, as in the previous recipe, bring to a thickening in a water bath. We connect the two components, pour it onto the cake. When the cheesecake stands for at least two hours in the refrigerator, we set about making cherry sauce. Boil four hundred grams of berries in syrup over low heat until the liquid evaporates by three quarters. When the sauce has completely cooled, pour it on the cake and put it in the refrigerator again.
Chocolate-free strawberry cheesecake without baking with cottage cheese
We prepare the basis for the cake in the same way, only with a bar of chocolate to the liver. In half a glass of cold water, soak 30 g of gelatin. While it swells, rub 400 grams of fat cottage cheese with a glass of sugar. Heat over another chocolate bar with two tablespoons of milk over low heat. Pour into cottage cheese and mix with a blender. Put a bowl of gelatin in a water bath and stir until crystals are dissolved. Separately, beat 400 g with sour cream. Without stopping the mixer, add the curd and pour in the gelatin. On the base of the cookies we put a little filling. We are leveling. We put whole strawberries on the curd filling. Gently fill the berries with the remaining filling. Shake the shape or hit it on the table - then the excess air bubbles will come out and the cake will remain flat. Leave it in the refrigerator for the night.
Striped cheesecake
When the base is ready, wipe half a kilo of cottage cheese through a sieve. Knead the same amount of sour cream with 300 grams of sugar. Add to the curd. Mash three hundred grams of blueberries. Put half the cottage cheese in mashed berry, mix. Prepare the gelatin. Add it equally to both servings of curd cream. Now on the basis of the cookies we alternately lay out the souffle of different colors. Since violet is more fluid in structure, it should be at the top, covering itself with white. We hide the striped blueberry cheesecake with cottage cheese without baking in the refrigerator for five hours. Garnish with whipped cream.
Coffee cheesecake
Wipe the cottage cheese (400 g) through a sieve. We make coffee from two spoons of soluble powder and a minimum amount of boiling water. Add a glass of sour cream, a bag of vanillin and three tablespoons of sugar to the cottage cheese. Pour coffee and a glass of liquor (best of Baylis). Beat this mass with a mixer for ten minutes. We spread on the basis of butter-soaked cookies. We put coffee cheesecake with cottage cheese without baking in the refrigerator for 2-6 hours. Three half tiles of dark chocolate with large chips. We decorate our dessert with it. If desired, you can sprinkle the top and sides of our dessert with powdered sugar.
Cow Cheesecake
For the filling, soak 30 g of gelatin in half a glass of cold water. After 20 minutes, put the dishes in a water bath and stir until crystals are dissolved. So that the jelly does not freeze, leave the dishes in boiling water. Two hundred grams of “Cow” is peeled off the labels, put in a saucepan, pour half a glass of milk. Pour a bag of vanillin and six tablespoons of sugar. We put the saucepan on the fire and stir until the mass becomes homogeneous. Beat 400 g of cottage cheese, 200 g of sour cream with caramel mass. Pour dissolved gelatin. Whip again. Pour the filling onto the base of the cookies. We remove the cheesecake from the curd with gelatin (without baking, as you can see, cooking it is quite simple) in the refrigerator overnight.