Cheesecake is a popular dessert, which is a kind of cheese cake. It would seem that unsweetened cheese and sweet cake - how to combine this? It's just that for making cheesecake, you need to take cream cheese with a soft creamy consistency. The classic New York cheesecake is prepared with Philadelphia cheese. It cannot be replaced with another cheese, as you will get a different taste of the dessert.
It is necessary
- Base ingredients:
- - 250 g of crackers;
- - half a glass of sugar;
- - 8 tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
- - 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
- Ingredients for the filling:
- - 300 g cherries;
- - 1/4 cup sugar;
- - half a glass of water;
- - 2 tbsp. tablespoons of lemon juice;
- - 1 tbsp. a spoonful of starch.
- Ingredients for the cream:
- - 240 g of Philadelphia cheese;
- - 5 eggs;
- - 3/4 cup sugar;
- - 3 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
- - 1 teaspoon of orange and lemon zest;
- - 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Instructions
Step 1
Grind crackers into crumbs, mix with butter, salt.
Step 2
Put the mixture into a mold, tamp it with your hands, spreading it along the bottom and walls, put it in the freezer while making the cream for dessert.
Step 3
Put the oven to preheat to 270 degrees.
Step 4
Use a mixer to combine flour, cream cheese, zest and sugar.
Step 5
Drive eggs one by one into the cream, add vanilla, stir at low speed.
Step 6
Pour the resulting cream over the base, bake in the oven for 12 minutes. Then reduce the heat to 90 degrees, cook for another 1 hour. Let the dessert cool in the air, put it in the refrigerator for 7 hours.
Step 7
Now combine all the ingredients for the filling in a saucepan, heat, bring to a boil, cook for a few minutes, then cool.
Step 8
Remove the cheesecake from the refrigerator, fill with cherry filling, let stand at room temperature.
