Cheesecake is a very popular dessert, which, as is clear from the name, is a kind of cheese cake. How to combine incompatible concepts: sweet cake and unsweetened cheese? It's very simple: sugar is added to the cheese. Do not be scared! The fact is that for cheese cheesecake use is not made of ordinary cheese, but creamy: it has a soft, creamy consistency, delicate, creamy taste, so cream cheese is often used in a variety of desserts. Cheesecake "New York" classic is prepared with cream cheese "Philadelphia", this is an indispensable ingredient. If you try to replace "Philadelphia" with another cheese of similar consistency, you will get a completely different taste, not very similar to the taste of the cheesecake dessert "New York". The recipe for this dish is quite simple.
How to make cheesecake "New York"?
Ingredients:
- a gram of 600 Philadelphia cheese;
- ½ cup cream 30%;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- lemon peel;
- ½ cup of sugar;
- 2 packs of shortbread cookie to 100 g;
- ½ pack of butter;
- vanillin.
These are the mandatory ingredients necessary for the cake itself, you will get a classic New York cheesecake. The recipe can be varied with the help of fillings - sour cream, chocolate, fruit-berry, jelly - or sauce.
Preparation:
First, we prepare the core cake: the biscuits must be ground into crumbs using a blender. We will combine the crumb with the melted butter. The resultant plastic mass is laid out in a disassembled baking dish. The form is put in the oven and we bake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 160? C. While the foundation is being baked, we prepare the cream. Cheese "Philadelphia" put in a bowl, add cream and grinded in powder sugar, vanillin or vanilla sugar. Carefully combine everything into a homogeneous mass, whisking with a whisk or a mixer (at the slowest speed). Then one by one, add eggs and lemon zest. Get a gentle, fairly liquid cream. Pour it into shape. The bottom and sides of the shape will be wrapped in several layers of foil, so that the water does not penetrate inside, we set the shape in a deep pan with boiling water. We will install everything in the oven and bake for about an hour at a temperature of 170 ° C. Cheesecake is ready, if with a slight rocking only the middle shakes. Let's leave the dessert cool in an open oven for an hour, then close it with a food film and put it away for the night in a cold place. Carefully take the dessert out of the form and serve it.
Berry cheesecake
Cheesecake can be cooked with any berries, but the most popular options are with red currants, strawberries, cherries and lemon. New York cheesecake with cherries is prepared in the same way as the classical version, but the cherry layer is laid out on the ready cheesecake. To make the top - berry - layer, use fresh cherries or cherries in your own juice. From berries we take out stones, add sugar and starch, a little water and lemon juice (for 300 g cherries 1 tablespoon of starch), the amount of sugar and lemon juice - to taste. We put all the ingredients in a saucepan and cook for 3 minutes, cool it and put it on a cooled cheesecake.
For those who like chocolate
The chocolate cheesecake "New York" is also very popular. You can cook with a chocolate cake-base, you can use chocolate cream, you can pour the finished dessert with chocolate glaze, or you can make a triple chocolate cheesecake.
Ingredients:
- 500 g of Philadelphia cheese;
- ½ cup cream 30% + ½ cup cream for glaze;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 2 chocolate bars with 200 g each;
- ½ cup of sugar;
- 2 packets of chocolate shortbread cookie per 100 g;
- 100 g of butter + 100 g of butter for glaze;
- vanillin.
Preparation:
Chop the chocolate cookies with the melted butter, lay out in a detachable shape and bake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 160º C. Prepare the cream, as in the classic recipe, but without zest, in the end we add a melted chocolate bar on the water bath. Pour the resulting cream over the base. We will bake the dessert, as described above. Prepare the icing from melted chocolate, cream and butter. When the glaze cools down, pour it onto the cooled cake.