Without this American dessert, it’s hard to imagine at least one modern cafe. What is so unique about it? At first glance, absolutely nothing - just a cheesy sweet cake. In our country, this sweetness gained popularity only in the nineties, therefore it is useless to look for a cheesecake cake recipe in Soviet cookbooks.
What?
Cheesecake - A traditional cream cheese dessert. But interestingly, a single cheesecake cake recipe does not exist. And all because each cook-pastry chef cooks according to his personal taste preferences. The differences begin both at the stage of glaze preparation (it can be based on cream, fat sour cream or condensed milk), and extend to the choice of cheese base. Contrary to popular belief, not only Philadelphia but also Ricotta or Mascarpone are suitable for cheesecake. And thanks to such different cheesecake cake recipes, everyone can choose a dessert to their taste, or even come up with their own.
There is also a misconception that cheesecake is almost impossible to cook at home. But this is just a fallacy. In fact, nothing is impossible and super complicated. The main thing is to follow the recipe, and then any housewife will be able to please relatives with yummy.
Historical information
Most people are mistaken about the parent country of the cheese cake. This is not America, as everyone is accustomed to believe, but Ancient Greece. The mention of this dessert was discovered as early as the sixth century BC. At that time, he was not considered a delicacy, but was treated as a product that helps athletes regain strength after the Olympic Games.
A little later, the Romans also began to prepare a semblance of cheesecake. The Roman emperor Caesar preferred this dessert to any other.
Over time, the cheese dessert recipe reached the Kingdom of England. And from the kingdom, the sweet cake reached the shores of America.
In Russia, the great-great-grandfather of a cheesecake can be considered a cheese loaf.
Varieties of dessert
In the modern culinary world, only a couple of varieties of cheesecake are distinguished:
- to bake;
- those that do not require baking.
For example, the American "New York" refers to those desserts that are baked in the oven. And it is made on cream cheese "Philadelphia".
But the English version does without heat treatment. The basis is crushed cookies and butter, and the cream of animals, milk, cheese and granulated sugar go to the filling.
Due to the different cooking methods, naturally, the cheesecake cake recipes are different. In the photo, any dessert looks appetizing regardless of the recipe.
Choose a cheese base
Cheesecake has the direct meaning of "cheese pie". Of course, the cheese cake recipe does not include hard salted cheese or any kind of maasdam. It's about creamy or curd cheese. About how to choose the last one and the conversation will go.
Categorically it is impossible to use processed cheeses, replacing them with cottage cheese or cream. They do not fit either in consistency or in taste. It is also undesirable to substitute cheese for cottage cheese, as in case of substitution a sourish flavor may appear.
The best option is to make a dessert based on Philadelphia. Such cheese is prepared from animal cream and sour cream, so it turns out to be tender and melting in the mouth.
If necessary, Philadelphia is easily replaced by Mascarpone cheese. The taste of the cheesecake will undergo some change due to the fact that Mascarpone tastes more like fat cream than cheese. Nevertheless, the dessert will still be very tender and airy.
It is best to choose cheeses packed in foil according to the briquette principle for cheese pie. Those products that are in the baths, with repeated whipping, can simply settle.
Classics of the genre
What is the classic cheesecake cake recipe? All products are designed for split form with a diameter of twenty centimeters.
Components:
- shortbread cookies - 125 grams;
- butter - 75 grams;
- cream cheese "Philadelphia" - 500-600 grams;
- chicken eggs - 3 medium;
- granulated sugar - 3 tablespoons;
- vanilla extract - not more than a teaspoon;
- lemon juice - optionally in the amount of a teaspoon.
Cooking method:
By the beginning of cooking, all components must be held outside the refrigerator. This is done so that there is no sharp temperature difference.
The oven is heated to one hundred and eighty degrees.
Cookies are crushed in any convenient way (through a meat grinder, rolling pin or on a grater).
Butter is heated in a microwave or in a pan.
In crushed cookies pour melted butter and mix thoroughly.
If it is very lazy, then the butter is crushed in the same way as cookies or with it.
In a detachable form, line the bottom with parchment paper in size. Such a simple action will help to transfer the dessert when serving and provide a beautiful, ruddy, uniform crust.
A mixture of cookies and butter is evenly distributed along the bottom and sides. Align the sides and bottom with a glass or rolling pin.
The base is sent to a preheated oven for ten minutes. This is done so that the cheese mass is not absorbed into the cake and does not leak through it.
While the cake is baked, begin to prepare the cheese mass. Philadelphia is mixed with the remaining products. When mixing, they try to make as few movements as possible.
This is the secret of an ideal cheesecake - in no case should you interfere quickly and especially with a mixer. In the oven, air will begin to surface and the cheese layer will be covered with ugly pits.
All this should happen in the following sequence:
- Chicken eggs and granulated sugar. Lemon juice and vanilla extract are poured into this mass.
- A sugar-egg mixture is added to the cream cheese.
- A homogeneous mass for the filling is poured onto the baked cake.
In the oven, change the temperature to one hundred and sixty and put the form with the cheesecake there. For forty minutes the oven does not open. After time is up, dessert is pressed a little with your hand.
Readiness is evidenced by a springy surface and a slightly trembling middle of the pie. In this case, the treat is left in the oven until it cools completely.
Once it has cooled, cover with cling film and put in a refrigerator for three hours.
As a result, the cheesecake is smooth and slightly trembling. Serving pieces are served on the table, which are cut with a wet knife. The classic cheesecake cake recipe at home is very simple to implement. Enjoy your meal!
What do you need to pay attention to?
A cheesecake cake recipe at home is not so complicated if you know the secrets of cooking.
- The basis for the cheese pie is practically irrelevant. In different countries it is cooked in its own way, and it can be either sponge cake or ground cookies with butter. But all this applies only to the cheesecake baked in the oven. If there is no need for heat treatment, then the components for the cheese pie are purchased ready-made and after mixing are simply sent to the refrigerator. There are also such cheesecake cake recipes at home, which are designed for cooking in a slow cooker.
- Eighty percent cheesecake consists of cheese filling. And here the difficulties begin. The recipe for cheesecake cake is about the same everywhere. Difficulties begin with the consistency of cheese cream. It should be of medium fluidity and consist of Philadelphia cream cheese. Recently, despite a violation of the recipe, an increasing number of people are preparing such a dessert with curd filling, or even with sour cream of high fat content. Although this is a violation of technology, in our country such tastes are more familiar. In addition, such a replacement reduces the cost of dessert.
- For this goodies you do not need to buy a separate form. It is perfectly replaced by a detachable confectionery form. To make the pastries aesthetically beautiful, the bottom and sides are lined with parchment paper. If this is a cheesecake cake recipe without baking, then you can take a silicone mold.
- Heat treatment is a rather complicated process. It’s important to find a middle ground, you can’t get enough cheesecake or overexpose in the oven. In both the first and second cases, the product will be spoiled. The temperature regime ranges from 150 degrees to 180 degrees. Baking time reaches an hour. A sign of a properly cooked cheesecake is the trembling middle of the dessert. If you are not sure that the cheese pie is ready, it is recommended to leave it for another 15 minutes in the oven. And only after full baking start to cool.
- Many chefs are sure that no matter what the cheesecake cake recipe with or without a photo, you need to cook it in a water bath. This is done by setting a larger form than the one where the cheesecake is prepared. Then pour water until about the middle of the form with a dessert. It is baked in the oven only in such a tandem.
- Cool the cheese cake away from drafts and cold. And do not cover it with anything so as not to damage the cheese layer.
- If a similar cheesecake cake recipe, sold at home, is already boring, then you can dilute it with other tastes. For example, add chocolate, some berries or fruits. You can experiment every day, thereby changing the taste.
Custom Recipes
In addition to the classic cooking option, there are also unusual cheesecake-based desserts. One of these is > Oreo cake recipe with cheesecake inside.
This is a very tasty variation on the theme, it will make you look at the cheese pie from the other side.
Oreo Cheesecake Cake Recipe
Components:
- Oreo cookies - 180 grams for the base and 90 grams for the decor;
- condensed milk - 380 grams;
- animal cream with a fat content above 30% - a quarter liter;
- cottage cheese "Mascarpone" - half a kilogram;
- butter - a little more than 50 grams;
- gelling agent (gelatin) - no more than two tablespoons.
Cooking method:
The first step is crushed one hundred eighty grams of cookies. Butter is heated in the microwave and poured into cookie crumbs.
The oil-sand mixture is evenly distributed in a detachable form and pressed down with a glass or spoon. Sent in the cold for half an hour.
Gelatin is poured with water at room temperature and left for some time.
Mascarpone and condensed milk are mixed until smooth. Animal cream in the amount of 400 grams is whipped with a mixer to elastic peaks. Whipped cream and cheese component are combined. The gelatin is heated in the microwave and sent to the filling.
The cheese mass is poured on top of a sand base and cooled for four hours. Over time, decorate with the remaining cookies and cocoa powder. The cheesecake cake recipe turned out to be very simple. Enjoy your meal!
Cottage cheese based desserts
For a Russian person, curd taste is more familiar. Therefore, cheese cake is very successful, which, in fact, is already curd in our interpretation. Nevertheless, there are many delicious cheesecake cheesecake recipes where the promised acidity is missing.
Blackberry curd cheesecake
Components:
- shortbread cookies - 300 grams;
- butter - 130 grams;
- granulated sugar - 100 grams;
- non-grained cottage cheese skim - half a kilogram;
- chicken eggs - 2 medium;
- salt is optional;
- classic yogurt - 150 grams;
- lemon peel - to taste;
- lemon juice - optional;
- blackberries - 380 grams;
- strawberries - 150 grams;
- vanilla sugar - not more than one tablespoon.
Cooking method:
The cookies are ground into small crumbs and mixed with melted butter.
Parchment paper is placed at the bottom of the baking dish and the oil and sand mixture is poured. Tamp with a spoon or the bottom of a glass.
Grind the cottage cheese with a sieve or combine. In grated cottage cheese add lemon zest and juice.
Pour granulated sugar, salt, vanilla sugar and classic yogurt. Thoroughly mix the entire mass. Chicken eggs are beaten in order, after each carefully mixing the cottage cheese.
The resulting cream is poured over the base and leveled. According to this recipe, a dessert is prepared in a water bath. To do this, cheesecake utensils are placed in a larger diameter form. Boiling water is poured into a large container and sent to the oven.
Cooking time is an hour at a temperature of 160-170 degrees. After dessert, get out of the oven, allow time to cool and place in the cold for several hours.
Puree of strawberries and half blackberry are poured on top of the cheese pie. Decorate with the remaining berries.
Curd Cheesecake
Another delicious version of your favorite cheese pie. It can be cooked at least every day, as cottage cheese is cheaper than cream cheese. The most delicious pastries will be made from homemade dairy products.
Components:
- a biscuit prepared in advance and corresponding to the diameter of the baking dish - 1 piece;
- high fat cottage cheese - 700 grams;
- granulated sugar - one faceted glass;
- twenty percent sour cream - 150 grams;
- chicken eggs - 3 medium.
Cooking method:
Beat sour cream with a cottage cheese mixer. Constantly stirring, pour sugar in and beat eggs. The main goal will be to achieve a sufficiently thick consistency so that the cream does not crawl in shape. To fix the cream, you can insert parchment paper or foil through the bots. Sent in an oven preheated to one hundred eighty degrees. Baking time is about an hour. Cool and allow to rest in the refrigerator for another three hours. Do not be afraid to cook cheesecake with cottage cheese. The recipe is much simpler than it sounds. Enjoy your meal!
How to avoid cracks?
- All components should not differ in temperature. To achieve this, the products are removed in advance from the refrigerator.
- When connecting products, do not use a mixer or a combine. They do everything smoothly and exclusively with a spatula.
- When baking, always cheesecake cool.
- It is necessary to focus more on your oven. If you see that the crust is very fried, then, of course, you need to reduce the degrees.
- To heat up evenly, cover the top of the cheesecake with foil.
- After baking, in no case can you drastically get a treat from the oven. First, it stands in a cooled oven, then for several hours at room temperature. The last step will be to settle in the refrigerator.
- Unfortunately, you cannot bake a cheese pie and serve it immediately. This dish is not suitable if the guests are already on the doorstep and there is nothing to treat them with. Almost half a day is needed for the delicacy to ripen. And taste notes are revealed only after it has stood. The most delicious cheesecake on the second or third day.
- Cooking in a water bath. Before you try this option, you need to make sure that all other solutions do not help.
Cheesecake for losing weight
Components:
- shortbread cookies - 180 grams;
- butter - 90 grams;
- soft cheese - 200 grams;
- fat-free cottage cheese - 200 grams;
- classic yogurt - 200 milliliters;
- chicken eggs - 2 medium;
- sugar - 150 grams;
- vanilla extract - optional.
Cooking method:
The crushed cookies are mixed with ghee. Spread evenly into the mold, not forgetting the sides. Sent in the oven for ten minutes at 180 degrees.
The remaining products are combined using a mixer and spread on cake. A water bath is prepared and dessert is baked for half an hour. Allow to cool and put in the refrigerator for three hours. Decorate with chocolate, berries or coconut. Enjoy your meal!