Cherry Cheesecake

Gentle, bright, spectacular, for a holiday! Cheesecake with cherries is a real masterpiece of confectionery art. It is not only delicious, but also very beautiful: chocolate almond cake, pink cherry cream and jelly with whole cherries. This delicacy will conquer everyone even before tasting.

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

For the base:

Shortbread cookies (biscuit or sugar)

150

Butter

Cocoa powder (with slide)

Almonds (ground)

For filling:

Cottage cheese

400

Frozen cherry

250

Yogurt (natural without additives)

150

Sugar

100

Water

100

Gelatin

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 16 % 6 g

Fats 34 % 13 g

Carbohydrates 50 % 19 g

253 kcal

GI: 20 / 40 / 40

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 d

Step 1:
How to make cheesecake with cherries? Start cooking it from the basics. Prepare the products for her. Take shortbread or sugar cookies, such as Jubilee cookies. Choose high-quality, natural oil, without milk fat substitutes. You can grind almonds yourself. Take natural cocoa, a drink like Nesquik will not work.
Step 2:
How to make a base for a cheesecake? Melt the butter in any convenient way and cool to room temperature.
Step 3:
Break the cookies into small pieces and put them in a blender bowl. Pour the melted butter into the same place, add sugar, cocoa and ground almonds. Whisk everything into a homogeneous crumb. If you don't have a blender, then you can chop the cookies with a rolling pin or a meat grinder and just mix all the ingredients for the base with a spoon.
Step 4:
Put the resulting crumbs in a baking dish lined with parchment (I have a diameter of 18 cm), tamp it with a flat-bottomed glass. Put the cake in a preheated 180 ° C oven for 15 minutes. Then cool it.
Step 5:
Do the stuffing. Prepare the products for her. Cottage cheese is suitable for Philadelphia, Almette, Violette, Cremette types. Take a seedless cherry, both fresh and frozen will do. Yogurt without additives, natural.
Step 6:
How to make a cheesecake filling? Gelatin pour 100 ml of water and leave for a while to swell.
Step 7:
Put the frozen cherries in a saucepan. Add sugar. Adjust its amount depending on your taste and the acid of the berries.
Step 8:
Bring the cherries to a boil over low heat and cook, stirring, for 10 minutes. The berries should be completely thawed and give a lot of juice.
Step 9:
Put the finished cherries together with the syrup in a blender and grind until smooth. Return the cherries to the saucepan. You can also use an immersion blender.
Step 10:
Combine the swollen gelatin with the cherry mass and warm it over low heat, stirring, until it completely dissolves.
Step 11:
Whisk the curd cheese until fluffy. It is not necessary to beat it for a long time, otherwise the fat will separate from the cheese and the mass will lose uniformity. Add the yogurt, mix again.
Step 12:
Add the cherry-gelatin mixture to the cheese mass (leave 80 ml for filling the top) and mix at low speed.
Step 13:
Lubricate the walls of the mold with vegetable oil, then the cheesecake will not stick to them. Pour the thickening filling onto the cake, level the top. Put the cheesecake in the refrigerator for 2 hours to stabilize.
Step 14:
Warm up the remaining cherry-gelatin mixture again. You can add whole frozen cherries to the mass.
Step 15:
Carefully pour the cherry-gelatin mixture over the finished cheesecake, trying not to damage the half-frozen cheese layer. Tighten the cheesecake with a film and return to the refrigerator overnight.
Step 16:
Before serving, let the cheesecake stand for 10-20 minutes at room temperature, then remove the ring and serve the cheesecake to the table. Enjoy your meal!

Butter can be melted in the microwave or in a water bath. How to melt butter in the microwave? Cut the butter into small pieces and place it in a special container. To prevent the oil from splashing when heated, cover the oil vessel with a paper towel. The oil should be melted either at the lowest power or in defrosting mode. At first, five seconds will be enough. Next, if the butter has not melted yet, set it again for 5 seconds and start the microwave. Repeat the process several times until the desired result.
How to melt butter in a water bath? You will need two containers of different diameters. Pour water into a large one and put it on the stove. Place the smaller container on top so that it is submerged in water by about half. Put the sliced butter into it. Under the influence of boiling water, the oil will begin to melt. Stir the oil slightly to speed up the process. As soon as the pieces of oil are completely dissolved, remove the container from the stove.

Why gelatin hardens badly, how to avoid unpleasant gelatin lumps in the dish, as well as all the secrets and subtleties of cooking read in the article about gelatin .

Important! The size of the mold must match the number of ingredients. If you do not have a shape of a diameter suitable for the recipe or you want to bake a pie or a cake of a larger or smaller size, an article about how to make the right calculations and not make a mistake will help, how to choose the shape of the desired diameter .