Chocolate royal cheesecake with cocoa

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make chocolate cheesecake? Start with the cottage cheese filling. Prepare all the products for her. Cottage cheese is better to take soft (you can use homemade or store-bought), not dry, otherwise grains will be felt in the finished cheesecake.

2. Step 2:

   

   In a bowl, combine cottage cheese, eggs, sugar and vanilla sugar until smooth. You can adjust the amount of sugar to your taste.

3. Step 3:

   

   Beat with a mixer until smooth. Add semolina and whisk again. Leave the filling to stand so that the semolina has time to swell. In the meantime, we'll do the test.

4. Step 4:

   

   Prepare all the products for the test. Sour cream and butter should be of high quality, fat content does not matter much. I took 20% sour cream and 82.5% butter. Melt the butter in any convenient way and leave to cool to room temperature.

5. Step 5:

   

   In a large container with high sides, beat eggs with sugar with a mixer.

7. Step 6:

   

   Add sour cream, soda and melted butter. Whisk until smooth. If desired, you can add the grated zest of 1 lemon to the filling.

8. Step 7:

   

   Sift flour together with cocoa. This is an important point: so the flour will be saturated with oxygen and the baking will be more airy, and in cocoa we will avoid lumps and the dough will be more homogeneous.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour the flour and cocoa into the dough in small portions.

10. Step 9:

    

    You should get a thick chocolate dough.

11. Step 10:

    

    Pour the dough into a greased baking dish with a diameter of 22-24 cm, smooth it out. Put the curd filling in the center. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C for 40-50 minutes. It is important not to open the door in the first 30 minutes. Since the dough is biscuit and can rise badly. Also, during the baking process, the filling can rise strongly. There is no need to be afraid of this. It will gradually fall off after the oven is turned off.