Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to bake a New York classic cheesecake? Prepare the products. Remove cream, cheese, eggs, butter from the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Choose only high-quality fresh products for this recipe. The cream should be fat, at least 30-35%, in no case frozen. Butter should also be of high quality, corresponding to GOST. Before cooking, the oil should soften at room temperature.
Step 2:
Preparing the cake base : - chop the cookies in a blender, add nutmeg, mix. Add soft butter to the crumbs, rub well with your hands.
Step 3:
A wet loose mass should be obtained.
Step 4:
The bottom of the split mold / I have 24cm / cover with parchment, along with the rim, lubricate with butter. Tamp the crumbs into a uniform layer with a side / or without, if desired /. Put the base in an oven preheated to a temperature of 200 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove and cool.
Step 5:
Preparing cheesecake: - add 3 drops of vanilla flavor, 1 h.l. lemon juice, sugar to the cheese and stir well. You can use the mixer at a minimum speed. I started stirring by hand with a whisk, then took a spatula. The mass is exactly mixed, but not whipped! /If you use a whisk or mixer, do everything at a minimum speed, avoiding whipping, otherwise bubbles will appear in the mass and the finished cheesecake will look like a leaky cheese./
Step 6:
Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. It is most convenient to do this with a spatula. Important! At the stage of adding eggs, the mixer can no longer be used! Take your time, mix smoothly and avoid whipping the mass, otherwise the mass will become liquid. / Note that if the cheese base is oversaturated with air bubbles, then the cheesecake may swell and crack during baking/.
Step 7:
At the very end, add cream to the cheese and egg mass, mix gently with a spatula, do not beat in any case!
Step 8:
Pour the filling into the mold with the base. Cheese mass can be obtained in different consistencies: from liquid fluid to quite dense, like sour cream. The density of the egg-cream-cheese mixture depends on various reasons: even if the cheese is of high quality, it may be of different density and humidity, cream of the same fat content may be more liquid or thicker, the selected category of eggs also affects.
Step 9:
Carefully level the top so that the look of the finished cake is beautiful. Shake the mold slightly a couple of times to expel the bubbles and fill the voids. We put it to bake in a preheated oven, first the temperature is 200 degrees - for 15 minutes. Then the temperature must be lowered to 110 degrees and brought to readiness - 1h 20 - 1h 30 minutes. Top-bottom mode. Put a container of water on the bottom of the oven.
Step 10:
Cheesecake should not turn brown, it is ready when the center trembles slightly if you move the shape. Cool the cheesecake in several stages. This is important! Immediately after turning it off, leave it in the oven for an hour with the door ajar, or longer./ I took it out when the oven was almost cold/. Then hold at room temperature until the mold cools completely, covering it with a napkin. Then swipe a thin knife along the sides of the mold and put it in the refrigerator overnight.
Step 11:
In the morning, carefully remove the mold and decorate as desired. As a rule, these are fresh berries or fruits. Cheese delight is ready, bon appetit!
So that the oven has time to heat up to the desired temperature, turn it on in advance (10-20 minutes before the start of cooking).
If you are afraid that the top of the cheesecake will burn, then prepare a sheet of foil in advance to cover the mold from above, if necessary. Cheesecake refers to the kind of baking that likes to be watched while baking in the oven. Do not neglect this moment! It is not necessary to monitor constantly, but once every 10-15 minutes it will not hurt to look through the glass at the condition of the cheesecake.
If, towards the end of cooking, the top of the cheesecake began to rise and crack, then this is a clear sign of excessive baking, that is, the cheesecake was overexposed in the oven.
Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information
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After baking, it is important to properly cool the cheesecake. If it is immediately pulled out of the oven, then it will almost certainly crack from a sharp temperature drop. Therefore, do not neglect the procedure described by me in step 10. Gradual cooling significantly reduces the risk of cracks on the dessert!
The recipe is designed for the form d 22-24cm, if you cook without sides, then 150g of cookies and 50g of butter are enough. Ideally, for a classic New York cheesecake, Philadelphia cheese is needed, I used cream cheese cream cheese, it is identical in taste, but the percentage of fat content in it is slightly lower than in Philadelphia. Any high-quality cream cheese can also be suitable, just keep in mind that different cheeses differ in taste, fat content and humidity, and this can affect the final taste and consistency of the dessert (for example, Mascarpone is much fatter, the fat content is about 78%, and the fat content of Philadelphia cheese is no more than 24%).
The cake is prepared for 2.5 hours and infused for 6-10 hours in the refrigerator.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Lemon juice - 16 kcal/100g
- Cream 35% - 337 kcal/100g
- Cream 40% - 362 kcal/100g
- Cream cheese with 50% fat content - 349 kcal/100g
- Vanilla Extract - 321 kcal/100g
- Nutmeg - 556 kcal/100g
- Shortbread cookies - 716 kcal/100g