To prepare a delicious cheesecake with cottage cheese, you should take medium or high fat cottage cheese. Low-fat dairy product is not suitable for such baked goods.
Royal cheesecake
Ingredients for the dough:
- flour of the highest grade - 2, 5-3 tbsp.;
- butter margarine / butter - 180-200 g;
- granulated sugar - a full glass;
- salt - 1/2 small spoons;
- soda - 1/2 small. spoons.
Ingredients for the filling:
- cottage cheese - half a kilo;
- raw eggs - 4 pcs.;
- granulated sugar - a full glass;
- vanillin - a pinch.
- Preparation:
For the filling, place the curd in a large bowl. Pour the contents of 4 eggs into it. Kill the contents with a hand blender. The filling should be as homogeneous as possible.
Pour granulated sugar (glass) and vanillin into the mass. Repeat mixing.
For the dough, you need to chop butter or margarine. To do this, it was possible with a coarse grater, the product must first be frozen. Add to the resulting greasy shavings all the bulk ingredients listed among the ingredients for the dough. Rub them into crumbs directly with clean hands.
Grease the form with softened fat. Best of all, butter. First, pour half of the crumb dough onto the bottom. Distribute it in such a way that small sides are formed. Cover the base with the filling. Spread it evenly over the dough so that there are no empty spaces.
Top up with all the remaining crumbs. Immediately send the future cheesecake to the hot oven. Bake for 35-40 minutes at 180-190 degrees.
First, you need to let the finished treat cool completely and only then remove it from the mold. Cut the cheesecake into slices. This simple and quick recipe will make a great dessert for the whole family.
Large cheesecake made from yeast dough
Ingredients for the dough:
- milk - ½ tbsp.;
- instant yeast - 7-8 g;
- sugar - half a glass;
- salt - ½ small. spoons;
- vanilla sugar - 5-6 g;
- medium fat kefir - half a glass;
- flour - 670-700 g;
- creamy margarine - 80-100 g;
- refined oil - 2 large spoons.
Ingredients for the filling:
- cottage cheese (5-9%) - half a kilo;
- semolina - 2 large spoons;
- granulated sugar - half a glass;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- salt - 1 small pinch;
- vanilla sugar to taste.
- Ingredients for pouring:
- raw yolks - 2 pcs.;
- sour cream - 2 large spoons.
Preparation:
Melt all the margarine in the recipe. Leave the resulting liquid to cool slightly. At this time, heat the milk in a separate bowl. The optimum temperature will be 37-40 degrees. Dissolve salt, sugar (indicated for the dough) in it, add instant yeast and vanilla sugar.
Combine the milk mixture with kefir and already cooled melted fat. Stirring the composition with a whisk, start adding flour to it.
Continuing to stir, gradually add flour. Knead a soft and tender dough with your hands. Send it in a bag and leave it like this on the table for an hour.
At this time, you can have time to make the filling. Pour raw eggs to the curd. Pour two types of sugar and dry cereals. Grind everything thoroughly with a fork. The uniformity of the filling can be adjusted to your liking, but still do not interrupt it with a blender.
Cover the baking sheet with good quality baking paper. Separate about ¼ part from the dough and leave it to decorate the top of the baking. Stretch the rest of the mass straight with your hands, mold a round neat cake. To make it easier for yourself, it is worth lubricating your fingers with vegetable oil.
Form the sides. For this you can cut the edges of the dough into small strips and braid them beautifully. This design is especially important if baked goods are prepared for a festive table.
Distribute the filling over the base. This should be done as carefully as possible. Desirable with a wooden spoon. The dough according to the recipe under discussion turns out to be very soft and it is easy to break it with iron cutlery.
Also cut out neat strips from the remaining dough. Decorate the top of the treat with them, placing them crosswise. Carefully attach the dough strips to the base of the baked goods. If the dough is left, you can cut out any decorations (flowers, leaves) from it and attach them on top of the whole product.
For pouring, combine sour cream (it should not be too thick) with raw egg yolks. Cover the top of the pie with the mixture. Cook it in a hot oven (at about 200 degrees). The baked goods should turn golden brown. The baking time is approximately 45-55 minutes.
Cheesecake with fruits and berries
Ingredients:
- premium flour - 2-2, 5 tbsp.;
- large eggs - 3 pcs.;
- butter - 150-170 g;
- cottage cheese - 580-600 g;
- beet sugar - a full glass;
- soda - 1 pinch;
- strawberries and apricots to taste;
- vanillin - a couple of pinches.
Preparation:
Freeze the butter well. It must become solid. Grind the product with a coarse grater. Add all loose ingredients to the resulting greasy shavings. At the same time, use only half a glass of sugar. It is not required to extinguish soda.
Grind the resulting composition thoroughly. It is most convenient to do this directly with your fingers. The final composition should resemble wet sand in consistency. Divide it into two approximately equal parts.
Beat the remaining sugar with chicken eggs. Combine the mass with grated cottage cheese. After stirring, there should be a fairly fluid mixture in the bowl.
Put half of the dough into a prepared form. This will be the base of the cheesecake. It needs to be evenly covered with cottage cheese filling.
At this stage, fruits / berries are also added to the future cheesecake. In general, you can use any fruit you like. A combination of apricots and strawberries is very suitable for such a treat. Rinse the berries, remove the leaves, cut into large pieces. Do the same with apricots, after removing the seeds from them. Spread the berry and fruit pieces over the curd mass.
Cover the top of the treat with the remaining dough. It should completely cover the filling. Bake the cake for 50-55 minutes in the oven at medium temperature.
Royal cheesecake with lemon layer
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese (you can take homemade) - half a kilo;
- eggs - 2 whole;
- butter 160-170 g;
- flour - a full glass;
- beet sugar - a full glass;
- baking powder, starch and vanilla sugar - small spoonfuls each;
- salt - a pinch;
- lemon - whole.
Preparation:
It is worth preparing a round tall baking dish in advance by covering it with parchments. It is very important to use good quality baking paper. If the hostess is not sure that a good coating has been chosen, it is worthwhile to play it safe and oil it additionally. Immediately turn on the oven to preheat. The optimum temperature is 175-180 degrees.
Wash the lemon very thoroughly. In the process, you can use a stiff brush. It is important that no dirt remains on the surface of the fruit. Remove the entire zest from the fruit with a fine grater. Only the yellow part will come in handy. The main thing is not to touch the white soft skin in the process. Otherwise, the baked goods may end up being bitter.
Peel the rest of the fruit and chop finely. In the process, it is imperative to remove all the bones that come across. Cover the pieces with a large spoonful of granulated sugar. Pour everything with a mixture of starch and a little ice water. From the resulting mass, cook a thick jelly.
Separately sift flour with salt and baking powder. Send 2 large spoons of sugar and grated frozen butter to her. Mix everything with your hands and grind into crumbs. Set aside about ¼ part of it. Pour 2 tablespoons of cold water to the remaining mass. Knead the shortbread dough. Put the base for the cake right in the form. Send for 40-45 minutes to a cold place.
In a separate bowl, combine the remaining sugar (including vanilla sugar) with cottage cheese and eggs. Depending on the size of the latter and the fat content of the dairy product, the filling may turn out to be watery. In this case, a large spoonful of flour will correct the situation. Pour the crushed citrus zest into the filling last. Mix everything very well.
Spread lemon jelly over the cooled base. Put the curd filling on top. Distribute it in such a way that there are no empty gaps on the jelly. Cover everything with the remaining crumb dough.
Send the form with the future delicacy into an already hot oven. Cook for a little less than an hour. You can navigate by the golden brown crust on top.
Curd cheesecake in a slow cooker
Ingredients for the dough:
- flour - 1, 5 tbsp.;
- butter - 210-230 g;
- granulated sugar - 2/3 tbsp.;
- salt and quicklime soda - a large pinch.
- Ingredients for the filling:
- granulated sugar - 1 whole glass;
- cottage cheese - 380-400 g;
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- vanilla sugar - 1 small the spoon;
- walnuts and any dried fruits - 40 g each
Preparation:
You can choose any dried fruit for such a dessert to your liking. The combination of raisins + prunes or raisins + dried apricots is perfect for him. Selected dried fruits must be thoroughly rinsed, filled with warm water and left for about a quarter of an hour. Further - if necessary, remove the bones and cut the remaining parts into small pieces. Peel the nuts. Chop the remaining kernels and fry in a skillet without oil.
Freeze the butter. Grind with a medium or coarse grater. Sift flour into a bowl of buttered flakes. Send other dry ingredients for the dough there. Grind the composition into crumbs with your hands.
For the filling, pour the contents of raw eggs into a separate container, add two types of sugar. Beat everything. Pour in pieces of nuts, dried fruits, cottage cheese mashed with a fork. Stir the composition.
Densely grease the multicooker bowl with any fat. Send 2/3 of the test into it. Flatten the base. Blind the sides with greased hands.
Distribute all the filling over the base. Close with the rest of the dough. Cook dessert in the baking program for 1 hour.
Potato cheesecake with cottage cheese
Ingredients:
- potato tubers - 6-7 pcs.;
- fat cottage cheese - 140-150 g;
- flour - ½ tbsp.;
- sugar - 2 small. spoons;
- butter - 15-20 g;
- homemade eggs - 6 pcs.;
- water - 4 tbsp.;
- salt - a pinch.
Preparation:
Boil peeled potatoes in salted water until soft. Send eggs (2 pcs.) And flour to him. Add salt if necessary. Mix the resulting composition well and roll it into a round thick layer.
Make a deepening in the resulting base. Fill it with the filling. For the latter, you need to gradually combine the fatty cottage cheese passed through a sieve, three raw eggs and sugar. Mix the mixture well.
Beat the remaining egg and spread it over the cheesecake. Bake the treat at medium temperature for about 40-45 minutes.
