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The Best Easy Cheesecake Recipe
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This recipe makes a classic New York-style cheesecake with a buttery graham cracker crust and rich, dense filling made from cream cheese, eggs, sugar, sour cream, vanilla, a hint of lemon, and a few tablespoons of flour. Cream cheese is the key ingredient, so I recommend using a good brand, like Philadelphia.
Here is how you can achieve this perfect cheesecake:
- Use high quality, full-fat ingredients. ...
- Bring your ingredients to room temperature. ...
- Pack in the graham cracker crust tightly and pre-bake it. ...
- Thoroughly mix the cream cheese and sugar. ...
- Don't over-whisk the eggs and creams. ...
- Bake in a water-bath at low temperature.
To make a digestive cheesecake base, you'll need 250g of digestives and 125g of unsalted butter. First place your digestive biscuits into a food processor until they are finely crushed. Then mix in your melted unsalted butter and process until it's well combined.
A traditional cheesecake is a lesson in simplicity. Made with just three simple ingredients; cream cheese, sugar and eggs, it's one of the more popular styles of cheesecake. Not just limited to cream cheese, different countries and places have their own spin on tradition, often using ricotta, mascarpone and quark.
It's high in calories, sugar, and fat, so it's important to limit cheesecake in your diet, just as you would any dessert. However, there's nothing wrong with enjoying this dessert from time to time as part of a healthy, well-rounded diet.