Cheesecake - the name alone says about something warm, comfortable and homely.
This baking has a unique aroma and involuntarily recalls childhood. Today, not many pamper household members with cheesecakes.
But this is easy to fix!
After all, there is a mass of interesting and tasty home-made cheesecakes, and not only with curd filling.
You can please everyone!
Homemade cheesecakes - general principles of cooking
In most cases, the dough for cheesecakes is prepared yeast, less often used puff or some other. It is always kneaded on top-grade wheat flour, which must be sifted. Pressed yeast can be used, but more and more recipes are adapted to dry ones, as they are now more accessible, easier to use, store, and have good lifting force.
The most common filling for homemade cheesecakes is cottage cheese. It can be salty, sweet, contain various additives, often an egg is added for fastening. But also often prepare sweet cheesecakes with jam, jam, fruit puree. Salted cheesecakes are made with potatoes, cheese, meat.
Recipe 1: Homemade Cheesecakes with Cottage Cheese from Yeast Dough
The classic version of cooking cheesecakes at home from butter dough with vanilla filling.
Ingredients
• 250 grams of milk;
• 10 grams of dry yeast;
• 80 grams of sugar;
• 100 grams of oil;
• 2 eggs;
• a pinch of salt;
• flour.
For filling:
• a pound of cottage cheese;
• 100-150 gr. sugar (depending on the curd acid);
• 2 eggs;
• vanilla;
• 2-3 tablespoons of sour cream.
To lubricate products before baking, you need a spoonful of milk and yolk, protein can be sent to the dough or filling.
Cooking
1. Mix warmed milk with yeast, sugar and salt. Pour the melted, but not hot oil. You can knead on margarine.
2. Separately, beat the eggs with a fork, pour into the milk mixture. Add the flour and knead the usual yeast dough, moderately elastic, not spreading. Put in a bowl, cover with a napkin and let rise 2 times.
3. For the filling, you need to rub the cottage cheese through a sieve to get rid of the lumps and make the mass more uniform. Then add raw eggs, sugar, vanilla and sour cream. Mix well and put in the refrigerator.
4. We take out the airy dough, divide it into pieces the size of small apples, lay it out immediately on a baking sheet, leaving the distance between the balls. Let the products rise.
5. Take a small glass and make a notch in each ball. You need to well press the dish to the pan in the center of the ball, you can twist it clockwise and against it so that the hole turns out to be of high quality and the filling does not fall out during baking.
6. Put the cottage cheese in the resulting recess, level it with a spoon.
7. Lubricate the resulting cheesecakes with a mixture of eggs and milk, and send to bake. On average, it will take no more than 17 minutes at 180 ° C.
Recipe 2: Cheesecakes at home with jam
The recipe for tender, airy and sweet homemade cheesecakes. It is advisable to use a thick jam. Yeast dough on margarine.
Ingredients
• 100 grams of milk;
• 100 grams of water;
• 500-600 grams of flour;
• 1 sachet of yeast;
• 1 tsp (without slide) salt;
• 3 tablespoons of sugar;
• 70 grams of margarine.
For the filling, you need about 500 grams of jam, and for lubrication one raw egg.
Cooking
1. Dilute the milk with hot water, add a glass of flour, sugar, yeast and let the dough rise for about 15 minutes. Then put salt, melted margarine, the rest of the flour and knead the elastic dough. We keep the hour warm.
2. Cut the risen dough into balls, lay on a baking sheet and leave to rise for 15 minutes.
3. While we prepare jam. To do this, put it in a bowl and grate it with a spoon so that there are no lumps.
4. Break the egg into a bowl, add a spoonful of water and beat with a fork.
5. We make a glass of a notch, the process is described in detail in the previous recipe. Put the jam.
6. Grease the formed products with an egg and send to bake. Temperature 180, time 12-15 minutes.
Recipe 3: Homemade Cheesecakes from Puff Pastry with Cottage Cheese
For example, the option of cooking cheesecakes with cottage cheese, but similarly, you can bake with any other fillings. Particularly delicious are snack puff pastry cheesecakes with salty fillings from potatoes, meat, mushrooms.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of dough;
• 300 grams of cottage cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• vanillin;
• sugar, about 80 grams.
Cooking
1. For the filling, grind the cottage cheese with sugar, one egg and protein from the second. We leave the yolk for lubrication. Add vanilla for the flavor.
2. Roll out a layer of puff pastry. With a large cup or bowl we cut out the circles. We form the sides by pinching the edges with your fingers. Get a kind of plates.
3. Put in each filling, immediately level.
4. Grease products with an egg and immediately send to bake until cooked.
Recipe 4: Cheesecakes at home with cottage cheese and raisins
A variant of delicious homemade cheesecakes with juicy toppings. We use any yeast dough. You can knead according to the first, second or your favorite recipe. In total, you need about a kilogram of test for this amount of filling.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of dough;
• 120 grams of raisins;
• 70 grams of sugar;
• 500 grams of cottage cheese;
• 50 grams of sour cream;
• 2 eggs;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Raisins must be soaked in warm water so that the berries become large and juicy. Then squeeze the grapes and air dry for 5 minutes.
2. Grind cottage cheese with eggs, sugar, vanilla and sour cream, add raisins. Stuffing the filling.
3. We form balls from the dough, let rise, make holes and lay out the filling.
4. Lubricate the cheesecakes with a beaten egg and bake. Cottage cheese also needs to be lubricated so that the toasted crust appears on the filling.
Recipe 5: Homemade Cheesecakes with Potatoes and Mushrooms
A recipe for delicious homemade cheesecakes with peerless potato filling. Yeast dough, kneaded on kefir. But instead of it, you can also use sour cream or yogurt diluted in half with water.
Ingredients
• a pound of flour;
• 250 grams of kefir;
• 70 grams of water;
• 1 tablespoon sugar;
• 1 bag of dry yeast;
• 1 tsp salts;
• 1 egg;
• 100 grams of oil (vegetable).
For filling:
• 400 grams of mashed potatoes;
• 200 grams of champignons;
• 1 onion;
• oil, spices;
• 50 grams of sour cream.
Cooking
1. Cooking the dough. To do this, mix warm kefir with salt, eggs, oil. Separately mix the yeast with warm water and sugar, leave for 15 minutes. We combine both mixtures, add flour, mix and keep the dough warm until the second rise.
2. Cut the mushrooms into cubes, also onions. Fry together until golden brown, add spices.
3. Stir the mashed potatoes with the mushroom mass.
4. We form classic cheesecakes from the risen dough. The detailed process is described in the first recipe. We fill with minced potato with mushrooms.
5. Lubricate the filling with sour cream, and the cheesecakes themselves (the edges of the dough) with raw yolk.
6. Bake until cooked, usually 15-20 minutes is enough. Eat hot.
Recipe 6: Cheesecakes at Home with Meat
If the meat-eater will claim that he does not like cheesecakes, you can easily prove the opposite to him. A recipe for amazing baking. Unlike classic meat pies, cheesecakes are very aromatic, as the filling is fried.
Ingredients
• 1 tsp. yeast and salt;
• 1 tablespoon of sugar;
• 170 grams of kefir;
• 400 grams of flour (a little more may be required);
• 3 tablespoons of oil;
• 1 egg.
For minced meat:
• 250 grams of boiled meat (you can chicken);
• 100 grams of bacon;
• salt pepper;
• 1 onion;
• 2 eggs;
• 70 grams of cheese;
• 3 tablespoons of oil.
Cooking
1. Knead the usual dough with yeast. We grow yeast in 50 grams of water, let stand, then add all the other ingredients, which should be warm or at least have room temperature. We stand until the first rise.
2. For the minced meat, fry the onion chopped finely in oil, cool.
3. Cut the minced meat or pass through a meat grinder, mix with onions, raw eggs, spices. We put the bacon cut into small cubes.
4. We form classic cheesecakes with a notch.
5. Spread the meat filling.
6. Sprinkle lightly with grated cheese on top, a little so that the minced meat shines through.
7. Bake until cooked.
Recipe 7: Homemade Cheesecakes with Cheese and Cottage Cheese
Recipe for salted cheesecakes with curd filling. The addition of greens and cheese gives a special touch to pastries. If you place the products close to each other (but not quite close), then when baking they stick together, and you get an original pie.
Ingredients
• 150 grams of milk;
• 320 grams of flour;
• 10 grams of yeast;
• salt;
• 1 egg;
• 1 tablespoon of sugar;
• 5 tablespoons butter or margarine.
For filling:
• 200 grams of low-fat cottage cheese;
• 1 spoon of sour cream;
• dill, salt;
• 150 grams of cheese.
Cooking
1. Combine warm milk with yeast and sugar. After 5 minutes, put the egg, salt, flour, butter and knead the dough. We keep the hour warm.
2. For the filling, grind the cottage cheese with sour cream, put the grated cheese, salt, add dill. You can take fresh or dried herbs.
3. From the risen dough we form 12 cheesecakes, let the lumps rise, then we make pits.
4. Fill with cheese filling, grease with a beaten egg and bake. About 16-18 minutes at 180 degrees.
Recipe 8: Cheesecakes at Home with Jam
For the preparation of fragrant homemade cheesecakes, we will use jam from apples and black currants. It is important that it is not too liquid. The dough is not yeast, kneading on sour cream.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of sour cream;
• 5 eggs;
• 50 grams of oil;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 0.5 tsp cultivator;
• 400 grams of flour;
• 120 grams of each jam.
Cooking
1. Melt the butter, mix with sour cream. Beat 4 eggs with sugar. Combine both masses, put flour, baking powder, knead. We send the dough in the refrigerator for an hour.
2. Combine both types of jam, if the mass is sufficiently liquid, then add a spoonful of flour.
3. We take out the dough, form cheesecakes with sides.
4. Put in the jam, let the products stand for 10 minutes and send them to bake.
5. Cook such cheesecakes until the dough is browned.
Recipe 9: Double Topping for Homemade Cheesecakes
A variant of the unusual filling for classic yeast dough cheesecakes. It can be prepared according to any recipe, for example, the first or second.
Ingredients
• 400 grams of cottage cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• 80 grams of sugar;
• a pinch of vanilla;
• 120 grams of jam or chocolate paste.
Cooking
1. Form classic cheesecakes with a notch, let stand while filling.
2. Stir the cottage cheese with sugar, eggs and vanilla.
3. Put the filling in cheesecakes, but not topping.
4. Knead the jam or chocolate paste. We type in a confectionery syringe with the usual nozzle in the form of a tube.
5. We stick the nozzle of the syringe into the cottage cheese in the center of the cheesecake and squeeze out a little filling. You can hide the jam inside or mark its presence as a target in the center of the cheesecake.
6. Bake until cooked and surprise your family!
Cheesecakes at home - useful tips and tricks
• To make the filling in cheesecakes turned out juicy and tender, you can add a little fat sour cream or cream to it.
• Filling from jam will not flow out of cheesecakes if you add a little flour or starch to it.
• The dough for cheesecakes with butter is tastier, but with vegetable oil does not stale for a long time, and the baking remains soft. Alternatively, use a mixture of vegetable and animal fats.
• When forming a notch, does the glass stick to the dough? Just grease it with oil or dip the bottom into flour from time to time.
• Do you need to replace dry yeast with pressed yeast? Just multiply the amount by 3. If you need, on the contrary, to transfer the pressed yeast to dry, then divide.
• Curd filling will not get bored if you do it every time in a new way. Add chocolate drops, nuts, coconut, dried fruits and surprise your family with your boundless imagination.
