Hot cheesecake. Traditional cheesecake with soft cheese

Do you want something tasty and sweet for tea, but are you tired of sugary cakes and hearty pies? Try a very fashionable lately, delicate and airy dish - cheesecake. The first mention of such a dessert is found among the culinary manuscripts of Dr. Greece. But he reached the peak of popularity in America. There the recipe got its name "cheese cake". Subsequently, he scattered around the world, winning the hearts of the sweet tooth. There are countless variations on the theme of cheese-curd pie. Introducing the most delicious and easy cheesecake recipe at home. With a photo, we will tell you step by step about all the secrets of preparing this wonderful delicacy.

The classic versions of cheesecakes are an open shortbread-based pie stuffed with soft cottage cheese or cream cheese (mascarpone, philadelphia, brie, etc.) with fruits or berries.

Most often, the base is not baked, but is made from compressed cookie crumbs mixed with butter. There are recipes in which the cake must first be baked and cooled. And there are options when the cake is baked as a whole, along with the filling.

As for the filling itself, instead of purchased cream cheese, you can easily use homemade one made from cream, milk and sour cream. Or replace it with soft grated cottage cheese with a low fat content.

Whatever the chosen recipe, there are a few key points, considering which, you will always get an excellent result.

Secrets of a successful cheesecake

The hardest part about making cheesecakes is getting the cake out of the mold without damaging it. This process is greatly facilitated by the use of a detachable form. But if one is not at hand, use parchment or foil. You just need to lay them with a large margin, so that later you can easily remove the cake by pulling the edges.

For the base you need shortbread cookies. Of course, you can also use store-bought (for example, anniversary), but it turns out much tastier if you bake homemade in advance.

Another key to a successful cheesecake is that the crust should be very dense. That is, the cookies should be thoroughly crushed, as small as possible, so that it is better saturated with oil. And then the resulting mass must be very strongly tamped with a glass or a small rolling pin.

To avoid cracks during baking (about 50 minutes), it is necessary to maintain a consistently low temperature in the oven, and then allow the cake to cool slowly, without removing it from the oven, but only with the door slightly open. Then place the cheesecake in the refrigerator for at least 3-4 hours, and only then decorate with fruit or chocolate.

During cooking, all ingredients should be at room temperature, especially eggs and sour cream. This will make the filling more airy and tender.

Traditional cheesecake with soft cheese

This orange cheesecake recipe is super easy to make and perfect for making at home. With the help of detailed photos and a step-by-step description, even a not very experienced culinary specialist will cope with it. Such a dessert will be appropriate for evening tea and on the festive table. Even for the little ones with a sweet tooth, this is the perfect treat. Orange, if necessary, can be replaced with a lemon, or any berries (if you are allergic to citrus, for example).

Ingredients

• shortbread cookies - 350 gr.;
• butter - 180 gr;
• soft cream cheese - 400 gr.;
• egg - 4 pcs.;
• sugar - 1 tbsp.;
• orange - 1 pc.;
• sour cream 20% - 150 gr.;
• starch - 1 tbsp. with a slide;
• vanillin - 1/2 tsp;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• bitter chocolate (for decoration).

How to make cheesecake at home

1. First, grind the cookies into small crumbs. To do this, you can use a rolling pin or mortar. And you can grind in a blender.
   
2. We combine it with melted, but not hot, butter and knead well.
   
   
   
3. Now from the resulting mass we form the basis of our pie. To do this, cover the form with parchment or foil and evenly distribute the “dough” along the bottom and sides. You need to tamp it very tightly so that the cake does not fall apart when you take it out.
   
4. For the filling, you need to grate the zest of a small orange and squeeze out all the juice from it, which should be filtered. We need about half a cup.
   
5. Then we separate the yolks from the proteins.
   
6. Beat egg whites and a pinch of salt with a mixer until a dense white foam is formed.
   
7. Pour a glass of sugar into the egg yolks and start beating at a very slow speed. With the mixer running, gradually add sour cream, cream cheese, orange juice, zest, starch, vanilla and baking powder.
   
8. In the resulting mixture, very carefully so that the foam does not settle, we introduce the beaten yolks and mix until smooth.
   
9. Next, pour the filling onto the base, leaving about 1-2 cm to the top edge, because. during the baking process, the egg-cheese mass will rise well. From the given amount of ingredients, a cake with a diameter of about 24 cm is obtained.
   
10. We put the cheesecake in an oven preheated to 160-180 ° C and bake for 45-55 minutes. The density of the filling should resemble a runny omelet or soufflé.
    
11. Now the most IMPORTANT! Turn off the oven, open the door, but do not take out the form for 15-20 minutes (until the oven cools down). After that, carefully take out our cake and leave it at room temperature until it cools completely. We make sure that there are no drafts and sudden temperature changes. We move the cooled cheesecake to the refrigerator for 4-6 hours, and preferably overnight. During this time, it will infuse, take on the desired consistency, the cake will soak and become more elastic. Then it will be easier to get it.
12. After the required time has passed, very carefully so that cracks do not go, we take the cake out of the mold. Then we decorate it with bitter chocolate grated on a coarse grater. It is also good to use slices of fresh orange or lemon, mint leaves, coconut flakes or fresh berries as a decoration.
    

That's it, our tender and fragrant orange cheesecake is ready! We cut the cake into portioned pieces and you can call everyone to the table! You can serve dessert not only with hot drinks (tea, coffee, cocoa), but also with cold milk or fruit cocktails. To add a touch of variety, and to make the taste of the cake more vivid, the use of various toppings will help.

Cheesecake with sour cream

Classic soft curd cheese for cheesecake is not always what is at hand, but also in the store. But this is not a reason to deny yourself the opportunity to cook dessert yourself at home. Therefore, let's consider the option with sour cream.

Ingredients

• shortbread cookies without filling - 250g;
• butter - 150g;
• sour cream 20% - 1l;
• eggs - 4pcs;
• sugar - 1 cup (capacity 250 ml);
• starch - 1 tbsp;
• zest of 1 lemon;
• salt - a pinch.

How to make cheesecake with sour cream

1. The process of preparing the base is similar to what I showed in the photo in the recipe above: grind it into crumbs, mix with melted butter, tamp it in the form.
2. We will use starch as a thickener for sour cream. If sour cream is liquid, then its amount should be increased. Add starch to sour cream, put sugar, lemon zest and salt. Mix well with a spoon. Beating is not necessary, the mass should be homogeneous, but without air bubbles.
3. Pour the filling into the form with the base. If your detachable form is not too airtight, then it is better to additionally wrap it on the outside with a couple of layers of foil. We put it in a pan with water. The water level should reach the middle of the height of the form.
4. We put in the oven heated to a temperature of 170 ° C for 1 hour.
5. After an hour, the filling around the edges should “grab”, and in the center remain “trembling”. Turn off the heat of the oven, but do not take out the cake until it cools completely.
6. We put the cooled down in the refrigerator for at least 5 hours. Before serving, the surface of the cheesecake can be sprinkled with cinnamon or cocoa.

In fact, cheesecake is one of those dishes that encourage improvisation. Only shortbread cookies, butter and eggs remain unchanged in the composition. In addition to the traditional soft cottage cheese (cheese) and sour cream, you can add condensed milk, nuts, dried fruits, pumpkin puree, chocolate, etc. to the filling.

chocolate cheesecake

Ingredients

• cookies - 250g;
• butter - 150g;
• eggs - 4pcs;
• cottage cheese - 500g;
• cream 33% - 100 ml;
• sugar - 2/3 cup;
• cocoa - 1 tablespoon;
• dark chocolate - 100g;
• butter - another 1 tbsp.

Cooking chocolate cheesecake

1. We prepare the base for the cheesecake from cookies, which we crumble and mix with melted butter, transfer to a mold and compact.
2. Cottage cheese for a homemade cheesecake recipe is better to take soft, without pronounced grains, which will be easily rubbed with a spoon. We rub it together with sugar and eggs.
3. Whip the cream and fold into the curd.
4. Add cocoa and mix well again.
5. We shift the filling into the form. You can lightly hit her on the table a couple of times so that there are no voids inside.
6. We put on a baking sheet with water and in an oven heated to 200 ° C. After 7 minutes, without opening the oven door (this is very important!), reduce the temperature to 160 ° C and bake the cheesecake for another hour.
7. After an hour, turn off the oven, but leave the dessert to cool right in it.
8. Then put in the refrigerator for 5-7 hours.
9. We cover the frozen cake with chocolate icing on top, which we prepare as follows: break the chocolate bar into pieces, put in a bowl or small saucepan, add 1 tbsp. butter, set over a large saucepan in which water is boiling, i.e. melt the chocolate in a water bath.
10. Cover the cheesecake with melted chocolate and decorate with fruit and chocolate chips as desired.

When you learn the principle of making cheesecake at home, you can experiment yourself. Prepare desserts:

Following the recipe with a photo step by step, making a cheesecake at home is not at all difficult. And although the process takes a lot of time, believe me, the result is worth it. Your friends and family will surely appreciate your efforts.

This article opens a new section on the site - desserts, pastries. The most delicious and popular dishes that can be served with coffee and tea will be laid out there. Below are recipes for cheesecake (with photos) at home.

What is a cheesecake

cheesecake is a dessert of European and American cuisine. Interestingly, there are a huge number of recipes for preparing this dish. The final product has limitless variations in appearance and taste. Therefore, many consider cheesecake to be a pie, a cake, a casserole, and a special kind of tiramisu.

This delicious and high-calorie dessert is now very popular in Russia. Many cafes and restaurants offer cheesecake for coffee.

Cheesecake and calories

Of course, like any dessert, any sweet pastry, cheesecake is very high in calories. It contains a large amount of fats and simple carbohydrates, which do not have the best effect on the figure.

It follows that it is often impossible to eat cheesecake, especially for those people who already have problems with being overweight.

Interested in the calorie content of cheesecake? You can take a look at these pictures. Of course, it all depends on recipes, ingredients, but you can still find out approximately how many calories a cheesecake contains on average.

Homemade Cheesecake Recipes

Cheesecakes so popular that you can buy them at any candy store. But some people prefer not to buy, but to cook for themselves, at home. There are several arguments in favor of this opinion.

1. First, homemade cheesecake is much cheaper than store-bought.
2. Secondly, homemade cheesecake is much safer, since you are cooking for yourself and your loved ones, and you will use the freshest, best ingredients.
3. Thirdly, your cheesecake turns out to be much tastier, since you do not spare the ingredients and you can always replace something with something depending on your taste preferences.
4. Fourth, making cheesecake at home is a very exciting experience!

How to make cheesecake at home? Very simple! Choose your favorite cooking option, follow the instructions, and then enjoy a delicious cheesecake.

Classic cheesecake at home (recipe)

Ingredients:

• 150 g of sour cream;
• 140 g of granulated sugar;
• 2 yolks, 2 whites and 4 eggs. Chicken eggs.
• 200 g cream cheese;
• 2 cups wheat flour;

Cooking:

Pound the butter and 2 egg yolks in a bowl. Add 40 g of sugar and flour. Knead the mixture to make a dough. It should be quite elastic, so add flour carefully and gradually. Wrap in a bag and put in the refrigerator. For now, let's get on with the filling.

Break the eggs into a bowl and add 2 squirrels there. Add all the remaining sugar and grind until smooth. Put sour cream and cheese. Beat this mixture with a blender, as a fork is unlikely to work.

Put the dough into a round shape, covering the walls and bottom. Top with an even layer of the resulting mass of eggs, sugar and cheese. Put in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, for 50 minutes. Then turn off the oven, open the door a little and leave it for 30 minutes so that the cake “grabs”. After that, send your cake for a while in the refrigerator.

Cheesecake "American"

Ingredients:

Pie base:

• 1 hour a spoonful of ground cinnamon;
• 3 art. spoons of sugar;
• 500 g of any cookies;
• Nutmeg. 1 teaspoon is enough for us.
• 150 g butter;

• 3-4 st. spoons of sugar;
• 3-4 teaspoons of sour cream;
• 3 eggs;
• 800 g Philadelphia cheese;
• Vanilla extract 2 teaspoons;
• 100 g of heavy cream;

Cooking:

Finely crumble cookies and mix with butter. Add cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg to it and mix everything again. Stretch this "dough" in a baking dish. Choose a form with a diameter of no more than 30 cm. Heat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius and send the base of the cheesecake there. Cooking time - 15 minutes. If oil starts to drip from the mold, place a saucer under it on another baking sheet. Then cool down.

Next we prepare the filling. Mix all the ingredients for her, except for the eggs. Stir with a whisk and gradually break one egg into this mixture. Pour the filling into the baked base. Cook for an hour at the same temperature, 150 degrees. Then again leave for 20 minutes in the switched off oven, and then send your cheesecake to the refrigerator for 4-5 hours.

Some may think that all this is very difficult. Try it - you will be very pleased!

Now let's look at a common problem when making cheesecake. Sometimes the filling cracked. Gradual and slow cooking will help get rid of this. Cheesecake does not like sudden changes in temperature during cooking, cooling. Therefore, they leave it in the switched off oven for 15-20 minutes, then 10-15 with the door ajar, then take it out and wait again for 40 minutes. Then refrigerate if the recipe calls for it. However, if you still have cracks- do not despair! Just top with whipped cream, jam, fruit, jam. It will turn out not only beautiful, but also much tastier.

Cheesecake cottage cheese (recipe at home with photo)

Ingredients:

• Flour - 240 grams (sifted)
• Butter - 70 grams
• Sugar - 260 grams
• Drinking water - 20 ml.
• Chicken eggs - 5 pcs.
• Cottage cheese - 900-930 grams. (Give priority to low fat)
• Milk 2.5% - 4 tbsp. spoons
• Vanillin - 1 pinch
• Table salt - 1 pinch
• 1 small lemon

Cooking

How to cook cheesecake with cottage cheese at home? Follow the steps in sequence, and a wonderful cheesecake will be waiting for you at the exit!

1. First, let's do the dough, for which you need: 200 grams of flour, 70 grams of butter, 70 grams of sugar. Mix the ingredients and add water. From the resulting mass you need to knead the dough. The dough will be firm.
2. Take a baking dish, cover it with special paper (put a circle of paper on the bottom).
3. Roll out the dough so that you get a circle with a diameter slightly larger than the paper circle.
4. We put the dough in a baking dish, decorate the sides, walls.
5. We send the resulting to the oven for 7-10 minutes at a temperature of 180 gr.

Now let's move on to the cheesecake filling.

1. For her you need: 190 g of sugar, 5 eggs, a pinch of salt, 2 tablespoons of flour, lemon juice, 4 tablespoons of milk, 900 grams of cottage cheese, lemon zest.
2. First, separate the yolks from the whites. Mix the yolks with sugar, and whisk the whites with lemon juice and salt.
3. Separately, mix together flour and milk.
4. Add the mass of flour and milk, vanillin and cottage cheese to the beaten proteins. Mix everything. Add lemon zest and mix thoroughly again.
5. Place the resulting filling in the form in which the dough was baked. Yes, you didn’t forget that you have the base of the pie in the oven?
6. The filling was laid, we grease the cottage cheese with whipped yolks on top and send it to the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees until a yellowish, golden crust is formed.

By the way, the cheesecake should cool down a little before serving. Then the taste will be great!

And here is a step-by-step preparation from one home cook.

If you do not know how to cook cheesecake at home, then check out the recipes presented. To do this is not as difficult as it seems.

The classic cheesecake recipe is an easy way to make your favorite dessert.

Required products:

• a small package of butter;
• cream cheese, Philadelphia is ideal, but another one is also possible - a little more than half a kilogram;
• 200 grams of cookies to your liking;
• three eggs;
• high-fat cream - about 150 grams;
• a little vanillin;
• about 150 grams of powdered sugar.

Cooking process:

1. The classic cheesecake recipe starts with the preparation of all dairy products. They shouldn't be cold.
2. Next, you need to prepare the cake, for this, with your hands or using a technique, grind the butter along with the cookies.
3. Take the form in which you will bake. On its bottom, lay the resulting mixture of cookies and butter tightly.
4. Preheat the oven to a temperature of 160 degrees and send the cookies in the mold there for 10 minutes. Then let it cool down and proceed to pouring.
5. In a bowl, mix powdered sugar and cheese. Don't make it too intense. Add more vanilla, eggs and stir again.
6. Pour the cream into the same bowl and whisk until smooth.
7. Pour the filling into the mold and prepare a water bath.
8. Everything that happened in the previous step, put in the oven for about an hour with a temperature of 160 degrees.
9. After the cooking time is up, do not rush to get pastries. Open the oven and let the dessert stand there for another hour. Then, without getting out of the mold, let it stand for another 4 hours in the refrigerator.

Cooking without baking at home

A no-bake cheesecake is an option for those who don't want to mess around and turn on the oven for a long time.

Required products:

• any shortbread cookies - about 300 grams;
• about 150 grams of sugar;
• half a kilogram of low-fat cottage cheese;
• a small pack of butter;
• cream packaging - 200 milliliters;
• 20 grams of gelatin.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare gelatin: pour it with a little water and let it stand for about 60 minutes.
2. Grind cookies into crumbs in a blender or meat grinder. Mix it with oil, brought to a liquid state, and fill the form with the resulting mass. Put in the refrigerator for a while.
3. Bring gelatin to a boil and immediately set to cool.
4. In a separate container, beat the cream well, then add the cottage cheese to it and mix so that the mixture becomes homogeneous. Pour in the gelatin.
5. Remove the form from the refrigerator and place the mass of cottage cheese on the cookies. Refrigerate again for about 4 hours.

In a slow cooker

The recipe will certainly appeal to those who like to cook in a slow cooker.

Required products:

• a pack of butter;
• powdered sugar package;
• a couple of eggs;
• 300 grams of cottage cheese;
• cookies to taste - 300 grams;
• 250 grams of sour cream;
• packet of vanilla sugar.

Cooking process:

1. Turn the cookies into small crumbs.
2. In the "Frying" mode, melt the butter and mix it with the cookies.
3. Pour the biscuit mixture tightly into the cooking bowl.
4. In a regular bowl, mix cottage cheese with sugar and pour in the contents of the eggs. After everything is mixed, add vanilla and add sour cream.
5. The mass that you have turned out is now sent to the container where the cookies are.
6. Turn on the "Baking" mode for 50 minutes. But after cooking, do not immediately open the device, let the cheesecake stand for about an hour.
7. When it has completely cooled, put it in the refrigerator overnight.

Cottage Cheesecake with Cookies

This dessert is made on the basis of fatty cottage cheese.

Required products:

• 200 grams of cookies;
• butter packaging;
• about 300 grams of sugar;
• 700 grams of fatty cottage cheese;
• some salt;
• a small jar of sour cream;
• three eggs;
• sachet of vanilla sugar.

Cooking process:

1. Crush the biscuits and toss them with the melted butter.
2. Prepare a mold and fill the bottom of the mold with the biscuit and butter mixture. Pack well, make small sides and refrigerate.
3. Stir the cottage cheese, try to get rid of lumps. Separately, beat sugar with eggs and vanilla well. Add the resulting mixture to the curd and beat for another minute.
4. Place the cottage cheese to the liver, smooth it in shape and send it to the oven already preheated to 170 degrees for 50 minutes. When the time has passed, let it stand a little more and only after it has cooled, remove it from the mold.

With mascarpone

Delicate airy dessert similar to a soufflé.

Required products:

• a little vanilla sugar;
• packaging of powdered sugar;
• 200 grams of cookies;
• a bag of cream;
• a small pack of butter;
• mascarpone - half a kilogram;
• three eggs.

Cooking process:

1. Turn the cookies into small crumbs. Mix it with melted butter and put the resulting mass in a baking dish, so that it lies tightly.
2. In a large bowl, mix the icing sugar and mascarpone until smooth.
3. Carefully pour the cream there, so that no lumps appear. And then eggs and vanilla. Everything mixes well.
4. We put the resulting curd filling on the cookies. We make a water bath and send everything to bake for an hour and a half at a temperature of 160 degrees.
5. After the end of the time, we wait until the dessert has cooled down, and put it in the refrigerator for four hours.

Cheesecake New York

New York Cheesecake is a classic recipe. which has already been described above. Its history began in 1872, when in America they first tried to prepare an analogue of cream cheese. In addition to the standard ingredients, berries and fruits can be added to this cheesecake if desired.

With strawberry

An updated and more interesting classic recipe.

Required products:

• strawberry jelly - about 100 grams;
• half a glass of sugar;
• heavy cream - 400 milliliters;
• half a kilogram of cottage cheese;
• large package of oil;
• cookies to your taste - at least 300 grams;
• a little vanillin;
• lemon;
• 25 grams of gelatin.

Cooking process:

1. Grind the butter and cookies by hand or in a food processor until smooth.
2. Put what you got into a round form that you will use for baking. Distribute tightly along the bottom, making small sides, and put in the refrigerator.
3. Prepare gelatin: pour boiling water over it and let stand.
4. Place the cottage cheese in a large container and beat it thoroughly with a mixer. Pour in the cream and sprinkle in the sugar. Whisk again.
5. Pour the gelatin that you prepared earlier, vanillin into the cottage cheese and squeeze the juice from the lemon.
6. Put the mixture that you received on the cookies frozen in the refrigerator and again put everything in the cold for an hour.
7. Cut the strawberries into slices and decorate the surface of the cottage cheese with it. Pour everything with strawberry jelly and send it to the freezer for an hour.

chocolate cheesecake

Chocolate cheesecake is prepared without the use of an oven.

Required products:

• cream cheese - 200 grams;
• cocoa - two large spoons;
• a little more than a bar of good dark chocolate;
• a bag of cream;
• about 100 grams of sugar;
• half a small pack of butter;
• about 200 grams of cookies.

Cooking process:

1. Melt the chocolate in a water bath and let it cool.
2. Turn the cookies into small crumbs and mix with the butter, which must first be brought to a liquid state.
3. Cover the bottom of the mold you will use with the cookie mixture. Lay it out, tight enough, pressing down well.
4. Whip the cream well until foamy, pour chocolate into it, pour in cocoa and mix everything.
5. Whisk the sugar and cheese in another bowl and add to the cream and chocolate mixture.
6. With what you got, cover the cookies in the form and put them in the cold again for an hour.

To make a curd cheesecake with pastries, the following products are needed: fat cottage cheese (I have 12%), granulated sugar and vanilla sugar, shortbread cookies, butter, chicken eggs and sour cream (the fatter the better - I use 26%). All components of the dessert must be at room temperature, so take them out of the refrigerator in advance and leave them on the kitchen table.

First of all, turn on the oven to heat up - 180 degrees. Let's deal with the basis for the cottage cheese cake: we turn 100 grams of any shortbread cookie in a convenient way for you into a large crumb. If desired, you can take chocolate, nut or replace some of the cookies with chopped nuts.

I like to do it in a blender most of all: I broke cookies, literally 15-20 seconds and a large crumb is ready. In the absence of a blender or food processor, you can break the cookies, put them in a bag and roll them with a rolling pin. Melt 50 grams of butter in advance (you can on the stove, but I prefer it in the microwave) and let it cool to room temperature. We combine the sand crumb with melted butter and mix everything thoroughly.

Pour the sand crumbs directly into the mold - this amount of cookies with butter is designed only to cover the bottom. If you want to make the sides, double the products for the sand base.

Gently level the sand crumbs with your fingers. Alternatively, after that, you can further compact and level the base with the bottom of an ordinary glass. We put the form with the workpiece in the oven heated to 180 degrees to the middle level and bake for about 10-15 minutes. During this time, the sand base should grab and lightly brown. If this is not done, the moisture from the filling will simply be absorbed into the sand base and it will soften.

While the base is baking, quickly make the cheesecake filling. Unlike New York cheesecake, where all the filling ingredients are combined with a tablespoon or whisk, in this case an immersion blender would be ideal. The fact is that any cottage cheese is a granular mass, so these grains will be felt in the finished baking. But thanks to the immersion blender, you get a perfectly homogeneous mass without grains of cottage cheese. We put 500 grams of fatty cottage cheese in a suitable dish, add 150 grams of sour cream and sugar, as well as a tablespoon of vanilla sugar. If desired, you can replace granulated sugar with powdered sugar, but this is not essential.

Then, one by one, we introduce medium-sized chicken eggs. We mix the first into the sweet curd mass, achieving mass uniformity, only after that we add the second and third eggs.

The result is an absolutely smooth and silky curd filling. It is thin and the consistency resembles pouring liquid sour cream.

During this time, the sand base for our future dessert has also baked. Take the mold out of the oven and let the cake cool down a bit. We do not turn off the oven itself, but only lower the temperature to 160 degrees.

Then we wrap the form with food foil in 3-4 layers so that we get a waterproof shell. The fact is that we will cook the curd cheesecake in a water bath, so it is important that water cannot penetrate inside the mold.

We build a water bath. To do this, place the form with the future curd cheesecake in a deep bowl (form or baking sheet) of a larger size. Pour boiling water into a large form so that the water level reaches the middle of the height of the form with dessert.

A dessert of American cuisine called cheesecake is a welcome guest on any everyday and festive table. The dish consists of a thin soft base of shortbread cookies and a delicate creamy filling. To prepare a dessert at home, you need to be patient, because the classic cheesecake needs time to ripen.

Classic New York Cheesecake Recipe

• Time: 2 hours.
• Servings Per Container: 15.
• Difficulty: difficult.

An easy-to-make classic New York cheesecake that will justify the long cooking time with its flavor.

The recipe uses Philadelphia cheese, it can be replaced with other cream cheese, such as Almette.

Ingredients:

• Philadelphia cheese - 900 g;
• shortbread cookies - 320 g;
• sugar - 220 g;
• butter - 200 g;
• fat sour cream - 160 g;
• lemon juice - 40 ml;
• vanilla extract - 20 ml;
• lemon zest - 5 g;
• eggs - 5 pcs.

Cooking method:

1. Grind cookies with a blender to a state of small crumbs, if there is no blender, use a tight bag with a zipper and a rolling pin.
2. Melt the butter, pour into the crumbs, mix.
3. Cover the bottom of the detachable form with parchment, snap the ring, cut off the rest of the paper with scissors.
4. Lay out the crumbs, tamp the bottom, form high sides, send to cool in the freezer for 15 minutes.
5. In a mixing bowl, combine Philadelphia cheese with sugar.
6. Enter the eggs one at a time, the addition of each subsequent egg should be carried out strictly after the previous one has been completely kneaded.
7. Add sour cream, stir until smooth.
8. For flavor, add vanilla extract, juice and lemon zest in the amount indicated in the recipe.
9. Preheat oven to 160°C.
10. Remove the form with the base from the freezer, wrap it with food foil in several layers so that water does not get inside.
11. Pour filling over cookie base.
12. Place the workpiece in another baking dish with a larger diameter.
13. Pour hot water into the bottom of a large baking sheet so that it reaches the middle of the cheesecake.
14. Send the workpiece to bake for 60-80 minutes.
15. The edges should grab well, while the middle will be watery.
16. After that, open the door slightly, turn off the oven and leave the cheesecake to rise for 1-2 hours.
17. When the dessert has cooled, tighten the form with cling film, send it to the refrigerator shelf for 6-8 hours.
18. Allow New York Classic Cheesecake to warm to room temperature before serving.

Recipe in a slow cooker

• Time: 1 hour 20 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 8.
• Difficulty: easy.

Depending on the power and volume of the multicooker bowl, the cooking time for the dessert may vary. For cooking, it is better to use homemade cottage cheese, it is not as grainy as store-bought, so the filling will be softer.

Ingredients:

• cottage cheese - 300 g;
• sugar cookies - 300 g;
• sour cream - 300 g;
• sugar - 150 g;
• butter - 100 g;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• lemon (zest) - 1 pc.;
• vanilla sugar - 1 sachet.

Cooking method:

1. Grind the cookies to a crumb state, use a food processor or a kitchen hammer for this.
2. Melt the butter, pour into the crumbs.
3. Cut out a circle from parchment paper, grease it on both sides with oil, put it on the bottom of the multicooker.
4. Cut a wide strip of parchment, oil it, wrap the sides of the bowl with it.
5. Put the crushed cookies on the bottom of the bowl, tamp tightly, form the sides.
6. Mix cottage cheese with sugar, beat in one egg, add sour cream, zest of one lemon and vanilla sugar.
7. Put the finished curd mass on the cookie base.
8. Close the lid, set the "Baking" mode for 50 minutes.
9. After the beep, do not open the lid, let the cheesecake rest for another 60 minutes.
10. Remove the bowl from the multicooker, let the dessert cool at room temperature, then cover with cling film and refrigerate for 3 hours, preferably overnight.
11. In the morning, turn the classic cheesecake recipe in a slow cooker onto a plate, then turn again with a second plate, decorate as you like.

chocolate dessert

• Time: 1 hour 40 minutes.
• Servings: 10.
• Difficulty: medium.

To diversify the taste of a classic cheesecake, you can use chocolate and cocoa powder.

According to the recipe, dark chocolate is used, its bitterness favorably sets off the taste of the dessert. It can be replaced with milk chocolate if desired.

Ingredients:

• cream cheese - 500 g;
• crumbly cookies - 250 g;
• powdered sugar - 170 g;
• sour cream - 150 g;
• dark chocolate - 110 g;
• cocoa - 80 g;
• butter - 60 g;
• eggs - 4 pcs.

Cooking method:

• For the base, melt butter with 60 grams of dark chocolate, mix with biscuits crushed into small crumbs.
• Put the mass in a round detachable form, form the sides.
• For the filling, beat the yolks with sugar until white.
• Separately mix cream cheese with sour cream.
• Combine cheese and egg mass together.
• Add the remaining grated chocolate and cocoa powder.
• Whisk the egg whites until fluffy, carefully fold into the filling, then spread the mass on the base.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes at 150 ° C, at the end of cooking the filling should be slightly runny.
• Let the Classic Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe cool to room temperature, then refrigerate overnight.

No Bake Recipe

• Time: 30 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 8.
• Difficulty: medium.

You can make a delicious cheesecake without resorting to baking. In order for the filling to keep its shape well and not spread, a small amount of gelatin is added to it. Sometimes it is replaced with a vegetable analogue - agar-agar.

Ingredients:

• low-fat cottage cheese - 500 g;
• shortbread cookies - 300 g;
• cream - 200 ml;
• butter - 150 g;
• sugar - 150 g;
• water - 100 ml;
• gelatin - 20 g.

Cooking method:

1. Pour gelatin with water, leave for 60 minutes to swell.
2. Grind cookies in a blender or by hand.
3. Pour into the bottom of a baking dish and stir in the melted butter.
4. Evenly compact the mixture in shape, form sides, refrigerate.
5. Whip cream with sugar, add cottage cheese, mix well so that there are no lumps, add gelatin and mix again.
6. Put the form out of the refrigerator, lay out the curd mass, send it to cool again for 3-4 hours until completely solidified.
7. Ready-made classic cheesecake according to the no-bake recipe, remove from the mold, serve on a presentation dish.