Traditional Baked Cheesecake Recipe 

In memory of childhood, today we will make a traditional baked cheesecake recipe, as our grandmothers did to us and I remember they were very delicious. It will be based on the dough with butter, over which we put a layer of cream cheese with raisins and on top a sweet egg white foam.

It is not a difficult recipe but we have to make a dough, which scares a lot of people, but you will see that it is quite easy to make.

Let’s Start With Some Basic Ingredients

Because our traditional baked cheesecake recipe will have three layers, I will show you the ingredients separately for each level.

Ingredients From the Dough

I chose to make a simple dough from 300 g of wheat flour and 150 g of unsalted butter, to which we will add three egg yolks, a sachet of vanilla sugar, a tablespoon of sour cream, powdered sugar about 50 g and a sachet of baking powder.

Second Layer

The second layer of the cake will be cream of fresh cottage cheese, about 300 g, to which we will add two tablespoons of semolina, two eggs, 150 g of powdered sugar, 50 g of raisins and grated peel of a lemon. I soaked the raisins in a little warm water and if you want you can add two drops of rum essence.

And the Top

On top we will spread a foam from three egg whites in which we will put 150 g of sugar, you will see that it will look very good.

How to Make the Traditional Baked Cheesecake Recipe?

We take them one by one and start making the dough. For this, we will sift the wheat flour in a mixing bowl, in which we will put the cold unsalted butter and the baking powder.

We will knead lightly so that the butter crumbles completely and we will not feel whole pieces of butter in the flour.

Now add the rest of the ingredients, the sugar, vanilla sugar and sour cream. We will also use only the egg yolks, we leave the egg whites at the end.

Knead all the ingredients by hand until you get a homogeneous dough. Do not knead too much, only about 3-4 minutes and the dough is ready.

Put the dough on the work table, over which we sprinkled the flour beforehand, and spread it with a rolling pin to the size of the baking tray in which we will bake the cake, my tray size is 37x25x5.3 cm.

Take a baking tray, I have a rectangular one, cover it with baking paper and put the dough spread in it. Bake in a hot oven at 160 degrees for about 10-15 minutes.

While the dough is baking in the oven, make the cottage cheese cream. Put in the mixing bowl the cottage cheese with the egg yolks, semolina, lemon peel, sugar and raisins.

Mix everything with an electric mixer or a whisk (I used a fork) until the ingredients are homogeneous.

In another bowl, beat the egg whites of the two eggs with the electric mixer, until we obtain a light foam, which we then mix with the cream cheese.

I lightly mixed the egg white foam into the cheese, so I got the cream cheese filling which will be the second layer of the cake.

Spread this cream cheese over the pre-baked dough, and put it in the oven for ten minutes, this time at 140 degrees.

Now we can do the third level, for this, we mix in a bowl the first three egg whites put aside with sugar until we get a hard foam.

We spread this foam over the cream cheese and bake it for another 20 minutes, but at a temperature of 120 degrees this time.

If the foam has a slightly golden-yellow colour, our dessert is ready and we can take it out of the oven.

This was the traditional baked cheesecake recipe, which, after leaving it to cool, can be cut and served.

Serving the Dessert

Serve at room temperature, cut into cubes, on a plate or plate, it is delicious. I still tasted it warm and it was especially good.

If you liked the recipe and want other cheese-based dessert recipes, I recommend the following:

• The Best Russian Cheesecake Recipe
• Best Raspberry Cheesecake Recipe
• Cream Cheese Filling Crepes Recipe
• Cottage Cheese Donuts-Transylvanian Recipe

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