Despite the high calorie content, cheesecakes can be classified as the most useful desserts. The main advantage of “cheese” delicacies is a high protein content for muscle growth, and lemon cheesecake, thanks to its vitamin C content, also provides additional protection of the immune system against viruses during colds.
Making Lemon Cheesecake with Cottage Cheese
Cottage cheese pie with delicate lemon Kurd is the perfect combination of rich color and taste in one dessert.
You can even cook this exquisite treat at home. To do this, you must adhere to the following sequence:
- Pound the soft butter (90 g) with flour (160 g) into crumbs. Then add 1 egg, sugar (2 tbsp. Tablespoons) and knead the dough. Form a ball from it, wrap it in a film and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Mix sugar (130 g) and egg yolks (3 pcs.), Add lemon juice, put on a stove and cook over low heat, stirring constantly. Lemon Kurd should drain heavily from a spoon, leaving a mark on it. Then you need to add butter (60 g), shavings of lemon peel and mix. Tighten the plate with Kurdish on top of the film and send to the refrigerator.
- Take out the dough, evenly level it with your hands on the bottom of the form and send it to the oven, heated to 200 degrees, for 13 minutes.
- Beat 2 eggs with sugar (200 g), add cottage cheese (400 g) and cream cheese (280 g), beaten egg whites (3 pcs.), A tablespoon of starch and vanilla to taste. Put the prepared filling on the cooled cake. Bake at 175 degrees for 5 minutes and then at 140 degrees for another 1 hour.
- Pour the prepared lemon-curd cheesecake with lemon Kurd, cool well and refrigerate for at least 6 hours. After a while, dessert can be served with tea or coffee.
Lemon cheesecake without baking
To cook this cake you don’t need an oven, only a stove and a refrigerator. But from this, the dessert turns out to be no less tasty and refined than that presented in the previous recipe.
First you need to prepare the base or cake for a cold cake. To do this, melt the butter (130 g), then pour it onto crushed cookies (250 g). Combine the ingredients with your hands to form a soft dough. Distribute it on the bottom of the form and send it to the freezer for 17 minutes to cool the cake.
Now you can start preparing the filling. From water (80 ml) and sugar (160 g) make a thick syrup. After this, beat the yolks with a mixer and pour in a thin stream of syrup into them. Continue whisking until the mass becomes lush and light. It should double in volume. Dissolve gelatin powder (150 g) in 50 ml of water. Combine cream cheese (Philadelphia) with lemon juice and zest, and then add swollen gelatin to the mass. Combine the curd with the yolk mixer, then add the cream (whipped) and mix again with a silicone spatula.
Put the cream cheese filling on the cake and set the lemon cheesecake in the refrigerator for 8 hours. When serving, garnish the dessert with fresh berries.
Meringue Lemon Cheesecake Recipe
For the base or cake for this dessert, you will also need cookies (220 g) and melted butter (120 g). The mass obtained from these ingredients is distributed on the bottom and on all sides of the split mold and sent to the refrigerator for half an hour.
In a deep bowl, beat with a mixer 600 g of Philadelphia cheese, egg yolks (4 pcs.), Sugar (120 g) and milk (100 ml). Then add the juice and zest of 1 lemon, starch (50 g) and cream (100 ml). Do not stop whisking for another 5 minutes. Put the finished cream in a cake pan and send it to the oven preheated to 175 degrees for 1 hour.
Cook meringues at this time. First, boil the syrup from 120 ml of water and 250 g of sugar. Then beat the egg whites with lemon juice, and pour in a thin stream of syrup in them. Put the lush protein mass on top of the lemon cheesecake. Send the dessert form to the oven heated to 250 degrees for another 7 minutes.
Pastry Lemon Cheesecake
This delicious cake, covered with bright yellow glaze, will certainly cheer you up even on the most cloudy day. The cooking technology consists of stages similar to the previous recipes.
First, cakes are made from 2½ cups of unsweetened crackers, 100 ml of butter and sugar (50 g). The resulting mass is distributed in shape and sent to the refrigerator for half an hour.
At this time, you need to prepare a cream of cream cheese (700 g) and eggs (3 pcs.), Sugar (1½ cups), lemon juice (3 tablespoons) and zest (1 teaspoon). Beat all ingredients with a mixer until fluffy. Put the cream on the chilled cake and put in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, for 35 minutes.
During this time, you need to make a cream of sour cream (0.5 l), sugar (3 tbsp. Tablespoons) and vanillin. Put sour cream on the prepared and cooled cheesecake and send the form to the oven for another 10 minutes. After a while, remove the cheesecake from the oven and cool.
Prepare the icing from water (½ cup water), sugar (½ cup), corn starch (1 tbsp.spoon with a hill) and lemon juice (2 tbsp.spoons). Bring to a boil over low heat and cook for 3 minutes. Cool.
Pour the cooled icing onto a cold lemon cheesecake. After that, send dessert to the refrigerator for another 4 hours.
Making Lemon Lime Cheesecake
As in previous recipes, the preparation of goodies in this embodiment also begins with a cake (base). To do this, biscuit crumbs (crushed cookies) and butter are combined into one mass, laid out at the bottom of the mold and sent to the refrigerator.
For the filling, you need to take 5 sheets of gelatin and soak it in water. Heat 75 ml of cream, then drain the water from gelatin and add it to warm cream, dissolve completely. Beat the remaining 300 ml of cream into a lush mass. Cream cheese "Philadelphia" (280 g) combined with powdered sugar (100 g) add lemon juice (2 pcs.) And lime zest, gelatin and beat all the ingredients together. Carefully introduce whipped cream into the cream.
Put the creamy mass on the cooled cake. Lemon-lime cheesecake, if desired, can be decorated with citrus fruit zest. Then it must be sent to the cold for at least 6 hours.
Lemon Cheesecake: Multicooking Recipe
Lemon-flavored pie can also be cooked in a slow cooker. To do this, you need to make cookie cakes and tasty creamy curd filling according to any of the recipes you like. Put in a similar sequence in the multicooker bowl and bake for 50 minutes, after setting the “Baking” mode. Before serving, you need to cool the cheesecake well for at least 6 hours.