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Royal cheesecake with cottage cheese in the oven
Royal cheesecake with cottage cheese in the oven (tsar cheesecake) is not an ordinary cheesecake in the sense we are used to. It is a closed pie made of crumbly shortcrust pastry and tender cottage cheese filling. We already have a version of the dough preparation on our website, shortcrust pastry, but in this recipe, the dough is quite different.
This pie is prepared quickly from quite accessible ingredients. To cook a tasty royal cheesecake with cottage cheese in the oven, use our step-by-step recipe with photos.
Preparation time: 90 minutes + resting time (from 3 to 8 hours).
Caloric value: 302 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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For the dough:
- flour – 550 g;
- butter (from the freezer) – 180 g;
- sugar – 100 g;
- salt – one or two pinches.
For the filling:
- cottage cheese (9%) – 700 g;
- sugar – 200 g;
- large eggs – 4 pcs. (or medium – 5 pcs.);
- vanillin – 1 packet (or to taste);
- salt – a pinch.
Preparation
- Let's start preparing the dough. Prepare the ingredients according to the list.
- Sift the flour through a sieve or a flour sifter. The flour needs to be filled with oxygen.
- Add sugar and salt to the sifted flour. Mix the dry ingredients.
- To prepare the shortcrust pastry, you'll need frozen butter, which must be grated.
- Sprinkle the butter from the freezer with flour.
- Grate the butter on a fine grater. Then, quickly rub the butter with the flour using your hands to avoid it warming up from the heat of your hands. The prepared shortcrust pastry is sent to the refrigerator while we prepare the filling.
- To prepare the cottage cheese filling, gather the ingredients according to the list. You can choose to add vanillin as desired.
- Crack the eggs into a separate bowl and check their quality.
- Add sugar, salt, vanillin, and eggs to the bowl with the cottage cheese.
- The filling should be whipped with a blender until smooth.
- This is the smooth cottage cheese mass that we have. There should be no curds in the filling.
- Prepare a springform pan for baking. Line the bottom with parchment paper, without covering or greasing the sides. The diameter of the pan is twenty-two centimeters. You can choose a wider pan, resulting in a shorter pie.
- Take the shortcrust pastry out of the refrigerator. Visually divide the dough into three parts. We will form the base of the pie from half of the dough. The second half is visually divided into four parts. The fourth part of the dough is needed for forming the sides of the pie, while the remaining dough will be kept for the top layer of the cheesecake.
- Form the base of the pie using a smooth glass. Compact the edges with the glass as well. The height and thickness of the edges should be evenly laid out around the entire circumference.
- Fill the pan with the cottage cheese filling. The cottage cheese mass filled the pan almost to the top.
- Sprinkle the remaining shortcrust crumbs over the cottage cheese mass. Do this with an even layer to ensure the filling is completely covered with the dough.
- By this time, the oven should already be preheated to 180 - 190⁰ C, depending on the power of the stove. Place the royal cheesecake in the oven for forty-five to fifty-five minutes. You may need a little more time, so keep an eye on the pie to ensure it is baked through and the crust is beautifully browned.
- Our pie was baked for one hour fifteen minutes. The top of the cheesecake rose perfectly and even cracked slightly, which is how it should be. The pie cannot be removed from the pan immediately, as the baked goods with cottage cheese should be allowed to rest.
- The royal cheesecake with cottage cheese cooled for about three hours; during this time, it decreased in size, while the filling thickened. The cracks that appeared during baking also tightened up, making the top layer completely even. The royal cheesecake can be baked in the evening and left to cool overnight, which will cause the pie to firm up even better.
- Cut the pie. In the slice, the dense and uniform filling and the even crust, which has taken on a caramel hue, are clearly visible.
- Brew tea and call everyone to the table.
Royal cheesecake with cottage cheese in the oven – a very tasty and beautiful pie, it lives up to its name. The pie resembles cheesecake "New York".
