Lush Cheesecakes - General Cooking Principles
Each housewife has her own secrets of cooking lush cheesecakes. Many people add a little baking powder or soda to the dough, these ingredients give baking a pomp and lightness, but with soda you need to be careful not to have a specific flavor in the cheesecakes. It is also possible to grind the curd through a sieve in advance - from a homogeneous consistency, the curd pancakes are very soft, rich and airy. The principle of cooking lush cheesecakes differs little from the way of baking ordinary cheesecakes. Mainly all the same ingredients are used: cottage cheese, eggs, sugar, flour, etc. Flour should be taken quite a bit - so that the dough is moderately dense and does not spread. Excess flour will lead to the fact that cheesecakes get tough and not lush at all. You can add any dried fruit, apple, banana or vanilla with cinnamon to flavor. Cheesecakes are baked in a pan, in the oven or in a slow cooker. Ready-made lush cheese cakes can be served with sour cream, jam, berry sauce or condensed milk.
Magnificent cheesecakes - preparation of products and dishes
For the preparation of lush cheesecakes, you will need a deep bowl for kneading dough, measuring cup, spoon, fork or sieve. You can also use a mixer or blender. If cheesecakes are baked in the oven, you need to preheat it, and grease the baking sheet with butter or margarine.
To cheesecakes turned out lush, cottage cheese can grind in advance through a sieve. You also need to prepare additional stuffing (if used): steam and dry the raisins, prunes or other dried fruits, fruits or vegetables, wash, peel and grate.
Lush Cheesecakes Recipes:
Recipe 1: Magnificent Cheesecakes
At first glance, this recipe for cottage cheese makers is not much different from others. It uses all the same ingredients. Magnificent cheesecakes turn out such, thanks to addition of a baking powder to dough. Flour can be taken "by eye", but it is better not to overdo it.
Ingredients Required:
- 1/4 kg of cottage cheese;
- Egg;
- Flour;
- Baking powder;
- Sugar - a few spoons (2-3);
- Some salt;
- Vegetable oil.
Preparation Method:
Curd mash thoroughly with a fork so that there are no lumps. You can grind it through a sieve or mix it with an egg and sugar blender. Add to the dough a little flour, baking powder and salt. Mix the mass again. Make small round bits with dough and roll them down in flour. How to heat the pan with oil. We bake the curd pancakes from two sides to a ruddy color and a light crust.
Recipe 2: Magnificent Cheesecakes on Yolks
In most cheesecake recipes, whole eggs are added to the dough. This method of cooking lush cheesecakes involves the use of some yolks, which must be very carefully whipped. Also, raisins and vanilla are added to the curd mass for a subtle, pleasant aroma.
Ingredients Required:
- A pound of cottage cheese;
- Raisins;
- Vanillin;
- Sugar - a little more than half a cup;
- 4-5 large eggs or 6-7 small eggs (yolks only);
- Soda - 12 g;
- Incomplete glass of flour.
Preparation Method:
My raisins and steamed for 3-4 minutes in boiling water, then spread on a towel and dry. Add vanilla, half sugar and raisins to cottage cheese, mix. Beat the yolks thoroughly with the rest of the sugar and spread into the curd mass. Add to the mass of soda and flour, still stir. The dough should be moderately moist, light and loose. It should easily take the desired shape. We make small balls from the mass and give them the shape of flat cakes. Heat a sufficient amount of butter in a frying pan and start baking our curds. Fry on each side until golden brown. Since the dough in the baking process will increase in volume, you should not put too many cheesecakes in the pan. For the same reason, the cakes should be small in size. ready cheesecakes served with berry syrup, sour cream or melted chocolate.
Recipe 3: Magnificent “Children's” cheesecakes
You can feed the children with such amazingly delicious lush cheesecakes starting from one year. All products must be of the highest quality and freshest. The recipe uses semolina and special flour for fritters, as well as sour cream, vanillin and eggs.
Ingredients Required:
- A pack of fresh cottage cheese;
- Egg;
- Two spoons of sour cream;
- semolina - one spoon;
- A bit of salt;
- Vanillin;
- Sugar - to taste;
- Vegetable oil.
Preparation Method:
Sugar (about two spoons), mix with vanilla and salt, beat together with the egg. Grind cottage cheese with semolina and sour cream. Add flour, beaten egg with sugar. How to mix everything - the dough is ready. The secret of the magnificent cheesecakes on the semolina is that the mass should be left for 10 minutes. During this time, the semolina should swell. Heat the oil in the pan. We make small cheese cakes from cottage cheese, you can roll them in flour. We bake in two sides on low heat. If there is no special flour for pancakes, you can take a mixture of high-grade flour and a small amount of baking powder.
Recipe 4: Magnificent Cheese Cakes in the Oven
In the oven, you can also cook airy and lush cheesecakes. In addition, these cottage cheese makers are much more useful. You will need eggs, separate yolks, baking powder, sugar and flour. Also some vanilla for flavor.
Ingredients Required:
- Two packs of cottage cheese;
- Two eggs;
- Two yolks;
- Vanillin;
- Sugar - a few spoons;
- Flour;
- Baking Powder;
- Some salt.
Preparation Method:
Cottage cheese fray through a sieve and mix with vanilla, salt and baking powder. Beat eggs with sugar, lay out in cottage cheese. Add flour, knead the dough. Preheat oven, grease baking sheet. We form cheesecakes and lay them on a baking sheet. The surface of the cottage cheese smear whipped yolks. We bake cheesecakes for about half an hour. So that the lush cheesecakes do not fall off, after the end of cooking, they must be held in the oven for several minutes.
Magnificent cheesecakes - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- To make cheese cakes really lush, the curd must be fresh and not too dry. But too wet cottage cheese is also not desirable to take - cheesecakes can crawl away;
- In the dough, you can add individual whipped yolks, many housewives use this particular secret, so that the cottage cheese makers come out rich and well risen;
- If cheesecakes are cooked in the oven, after the end of cooking, they should be left there for another 5 minutes. If you get the cheesecakes immediately, they will easily fall off.
