Many have heard and some are even able to try the famous American cheesecake dessert called.Translated this word means simply cheesecake, but it's like our little cheesecake.In appearance it resembles a cake, and taste - pudding casserole.You can also see in it a distant kinship with the tiramisu (because its preparation involves a soft cheese and biscuits).Is it possible to reproduce the classic American cheesecake at home?Of course, because it does not require any "exotic" products.
What is the "classics of the genre" in relation to the cheesecake?After all, in different states of this dessert is prepared in its own way, but nevertheless, Utah, and Illinois, and Texas believe your cheesecake most-most correct.Someone uses the cream, someone - sour cream, and someone - condensed milk.Do not be afraid to experiment and all you get sure.So, how to make cheesecake at home?Reserves to start the necessary products.
to the basics we need 300 g crumbly cookies or sweet crackers, 4 tablespoons sugar and half a pack of butter.Filling - is what distinguishes the US from any other cheesecake dessert.For her, we need to stock up on almost a kilogram of soft cheese.This can be a ricotta, mascarpone, and such varieties as "Buko" or neutral "Philadelphia."Also needed are 5 eggs, 4 cups flour, half cup sugar, a bag of vanilla, lemon and a pinch of salt.Top articles should cover the frosting: to buy her a liter of fat sour cream, half a cup of sugar and one packet of vanilla.It seems to be.Products purchased, then cook the cheesecake.
base is very easy: shred cookies (meat grinder, blender or mortar and pestle).Crumbs pour melted butter, sprinkle with sugar and mash your hands until smooth.We put it in a split mold in which baked cakes.It is best to take it with a diameter of 20-25 cm. They rammed mass.Bake the cheesecake in our home in a preheated 180 ° C oven for about 10 minutes.Let cool.The lower layer, it can be said, is ready.
In a bowl with high sides, beat with a mixer at low speeds cheese, sugar, lemon juice and zest, and vanilla and salt.Pour the flour and introduce one egg, without ceasing to operate the mixer.When you receive a lush and watery homogeneous mass, lubricates the walls of the split mold oil, and pour back filling.Used for cake put a small bowl of water, and the complex structure placed in the oven for about an hour.Our cheesecake at home will be ready when the outer edges of blushing, middle, and remain gelatinous.
now prepare the glaze: In a blender, mix all the ingredients for it to completely dissolve the sugar.If the top of the product you have cracked during baking, do not worry - the frosting will mask any defects.The flip side of a spoon smear the top products and bake another 7 minutes Separate the knife edge of the cake from the sides of the form, but do not remove.When the cheesecake at home completely cooled, put it another couple of hours in the refrigerator.Serve with syrup, topping, fresh berries.
