Cheesecake New York

Hello again!

And I am late, again. So sorry and this is my cheesecake story. First of all there will not be any of my pictures, because my pictures suck. So the pictures and the recipe are from this beautiful food blog by Belarusian chef who writes in Russian. This blog is amazing and if you can speak Russian I strongly advise you to check it out.

But let’s go back to the cheesecake.

This is the recipe of classic New York cheesecake.

You will need:

- 21-22 cm (8.5 inch) in diameter demountable form

- For the base

• -          200 g (7 oz) of cookies
• -          110 g (3.9 oz) of melted butter

- For the “stuffing”:

• -          600 g (21.2 oz) of Philadelphia cheese
• -          3 eggs
• -          150 g (5.3 oz) of heavy cream (33%)
• -          150 g (5.3 oz) of icing sugar
• -          1 teaspoon of vanilla (essence)

First of all take everything out the fridge for about an hour before you are going to cook (to make everything room temperature), melt the butter and make icing sugar (if you are using regular sugar just put it into a grinder for a minute).

After butter is melted and cooled down crumble the cookies and mix it with butter. Put your oven to 160° C (320° F).Take your demountable form and make the base of your future cheesecake.

Put it into the oven, when it’s heated, for 10 minutes.

In this ten minutes mix together cheese with icing sugar, add cream, eggs and vanilla. Make sure not to shake up it a lot because a lot of air in the fitting makes it crack later when baking.

When your base is out of the oven and room temperature you can pour you filling into the form.

To make cheesecake tenderer you can bake it using “water bath”. Take the ready form cover it up with two sheets of foil and put it to bigger form. Pour the hot water into the bigger form and put this construction into your oven. The temperature is still 160° C (320° F). After 1h 20 min your cheesecake should be ready! Enjoy!

p.s. I was so scared of this “water bath” thing that I was putting this recipe away and was thinking “cheesecake is just too hard for me to make”, but actually it’s just easier than it sounds, trust me. If I can do it so do you!