Recipe for Classic Cheesecake and Its Variations

The origins of cheesecake history go to American culinary culture. This dessert of cheese slightly resembles a casserole, however, the differences are quite significant. The recipe for a classic cheesecake has helped a single American mother to arrange a holiday for the whole family and especially to please the children.

The main mechanism for making cheesecake is the following: the biscuit cake is covered with a layer of soft cheese and baked. The cake itself can be made from cookies. The filling is naturally made from cheese, in which sugar, cream and eggs are added. You can put there candied fruit, chocolate, berries, vanilla, coffee, poppy or cinnamon - it will become even more delicious.

The recipe for a classic cheesecake requires the use of a water bath or baking in the oven at a relatively low temperature.

The recipe for a classic cheesecake

Filling:

Cream cheese - 450 grams;

Sugar - glass;

Sugar vanilla - a sachet;

Eggs - 5 pieces;

Sour cream fat - 450 grams.

Ingredients for the base:

Butter - 100 grams;

Cookies - 250 grams;

Egg - 1 piece.

Preparation takes about two hours.

Grind the cookies, add to it the egg and butter, mix. Lay out the resulting "test" the bottom of the mold and its edges, then place it in the refrigerator.

Cheese should be beaten, gradually adding sugar to it. Then enter one egg, one vanilla and sour cream. Pour the filling into the mold over the dough. Bake for about 40 minutes in the oven at 165 degrees. After the pie is ready to not immediately remove, and hold in a cooling oven for about an hour. Then get the cake to cool down completely, and place it in the fridge for four hours.

The recipe for classic cheesecake can be slightly modified in terms of components of the filling to please yourself with variety. Complemented with delicious ingredients, cheesecake turns into an amazing and unusual dessert.

Chocolate-marble cheesecake

Required products:

Low-fat cottage cheese - half a kilogram;

Cream cheese - 200 grams;

Sugar - 200 grams;

Strong coffee - 2 tbsp. Spoons;

Vanilla sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;

lemon juice;

Eggs - 3 pieces;

Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp. Spoons;

salt.

Prepared for an hour.

Cottage cheese should be whipped for 2-3 minutes. Add the eggs, cream cheese, sugar (190 grams), vanilla sugar, lemon juice and salt. All is good to shake. Mix cocoa with coffee, a tablespoon of sugar and a tablespoon of water, add a third of the curd mixture and mix well.

Oven to warm up to 180 degrees. Lubricate the baking dish with a butter. At the bottom lay a parchment paper, lay the walls with a parchment tape. Lay out the remaining mass of cottage cheese. Pour the chocolate mass into the center of the mold. Stir both masses with a knife so that the "marble" stains are obtained.

Place the form on a baking tray with boiling water and put in the oven for 40 minutes. Get the cake, cool it, cover it from above with a film and put it in the refrigerator for 12 hours.

Then put the cheesecake on the dish, cut into pieces. From above you can decorate with cream or fruit. Delicious cheesecake is ready!

 

Simple cheesecake with lemon

 

Ingredients:

Cookies - 200 grams;

Lemon (peel) - 1 piece;

Egg whites - 2 pieces;

Sugar - 35 grams;

Butter - 75 grams;

Lemon juice - 75 ml;

Gelatin (powder) - 9 grams;

Yoghurt - 150 ml;

Treacle - 50 ml.

Preparation takes only half an hour.

Crumble the cookies, melt the butter. Crumb cookies mixed with butter and cover this mass of the bottom and sides of a split shape, put it in the refrigerator.

At this time, mix the lemon juice with 75 ml of water, add the gelatin here, heat the mixture for 5 minutes so that the gelatin is dissolved, then cool.

In a separate bowl, whip yogurt, cottage cheese and molasses, add a mixture of lemon and gelatin. Proteins beat up in foam and put into the existing mixture. Pour the filling into the mold. To cool for at least 4 hours.

Zest of lemon minutes 3 blanch in boiling water, drain the water, roll it in sugar and sprinkle it on top of the pie.