Banana Cheesecake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make banana cheesecake? Prepare the products. Any fresh shortbread cookies will do, for example, "Jubilee", "Melted milk". You can also bake it yourself. Cottage cheese and sour cream are better to take high fat content (I have cottage cheese 9%, sour cream 20% fat content). Take high-quality dairy products, without vegetable substitutes. Bananas are ripe, but not overripe.

2. Step 2:

   

   Chop the selected shortbread in any convenient way (with a blender, rolling pin, hands, food processor) into crumbs. Melt the butter and refrigerate. Read about how to do this at the end of the recipe. In a deep bowl, mix the crushed cookies and melted butter, mix, turning everything into a homogeneous mass.

3. Step 3:

   

   Take a detachable dessert mold, it will be most convenient to cook cheesecake in it. I use a mold with a diameter of 18 centimeters. Put the butter crumbs into the mold and tamp it well either with your hands or with the flat bottom of the glass. You can make a cheesecake with sides by distributing some of the crumbs along the edges of the mold. Put the mold with the base in the refrigerator.

4. Step 4:

   

   Prepare the gelling mixture according to the instructions on the package. I have instant gelatin, it is poured with boiling water, thoroughly mixed until completely dissolved, and then cooled to room temperature. Read about other ways to work with gelatin at the end of the recipe.

6. Step 5:

   

   In a deep bowl or blender bowl, mix fresh cottage cheese, sour cream, sugar, sliced bananas without skin. Puree everything into a homogeneous mass using a blender. If you do not have it, then rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, and then mix the products with a spoon. In this case, mash the bananas with a fork.

7. Step 6:

   

   Pour gelatin into the curd-sour cream mixture, mix thoroughly and pour everything into a mold with a sand base. Put the cheesecake in the refrigerator until the filling is completely solidified, for at least 3-4 hours. To make the cheesecake well out of the mold, it can be pre-greased with oil, covered with foil or cling film (then the edges will not be very smooth, like mine).

8. Step 7:

   

   Carefully remove the finished cheesecake from the mold, remove the film and put it on a dish. It can be decorated to your liking: slices of sliced banana, chopped nuts, pour melted chocolate or caramel. Bon appetit!