Hello Everybody!

It’s sunday and for this reason, as usual, today I’ll show you one recipe! The recipe I’ll tell you is one of  my favorite and also one of my most appreciated cakes: my New York Cheesecake’s recipe.

There are a bunch of recipes for this cake. At first we have to choose between Hot recipes (I think it is the traditional one) and cold recipes (faster and maybe more light).

For this time I choosed the cold recipe. Also for this cold cake there are many different recipes. As usual, I tried several recipes and from each of them I took some pieces or ingredients for figuring out what was the best Cheesecake recipe for me. The one I found is loved by everyone I know!

But let’s see how I prepared my Cold New York Cheesecake!

The Perfect Recipe For New York Cheesecake

As I said before, this recipe is a mix of several recipes… But in my opinion, is the best combination. I prepared a tiny Cheesecake (as you can see in the picture) but the ingredients showed are for a Full Size cake.

Time to prepare 20 Minutes – Time to cool in the fridge 30 minutes for the base + 4/5 hours for the whole cake.

Ingredients for a cheesecake for 8 people:

For the base:

• 200 gr of Digestive biscuits (or your favorite cookies);
• 110 gr of butter.

For the Cream:

• 600 gr of creamy cheese (I used Philadelphia cheese);
• 130 of sugar;
• 10 gr of gelatine;
• 200 ml whipping cream.

For the top (strawberry gelatine):

• 250 gr fresh strawberry;
• 50 gr whipping cream;
• 5 gr of gelatine;
• 10 gr of sugar;
• strawberry for decorating.

Useful tools:

• Mixer;
• Cake pan;
• little pot;
• electric whisk;
• spatulas;
• terrine.

Procedure:

At the beginning I put the butter in a little pot and I melted it and I left it separately for cooling. In the meantime, I crumbled my Digestive biscuits in the mixer. I put the biscuits powder in a terrine and I added the fused butter. I amalgamated the mixture with a spatula, until all ingredients are melted together. I greased my cake pan with few butter and I put my mixture of biscuits and butter on it. With a spatula I pressed the mixture for creating a compact base. I put the base in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

During the 30 minutes I prepared my cream. In a terrina I put the creamy cheese and the sugar and I mixed them together with an electric whisk. In a different pot i put the whipping cream and the gelatine and I melted perfectly the two ingredients. When was ready, and also when it was little cold, I added the whipping cream in the terrine with the cheese and I melted again until the mixture is homogeneous and without clumps. I took my base from the fridge and I deposited the cream cheese on the top of it. At the end, with a spatula or with a fork I leveled the surface as better as I could. I put my cake in the fridge at least 4 hours (all night long could be better).

I decided to put on the top of the cheesecake a fresh strawberries’ gelatine. For doing it I washed and cleaned my strawberries and I blend it with my hand blender. After that I put them in a pot with the whipping cream and the gelatine and I mixed all together until all the clumps were eliminated. When my cake was enough thickened, i put my strawberries’ gelatine on the top and I put again in the fridge for some hours or all night long.

You can conserve your cheesecake in the fridge for 3/4 days. You can also freezing the cake and leave it in the fridge for defrosting it few hours before you plan to eat it.

Here my result!

One of the strength point of this cake is that you can prepared it the day before! This cake is perfect after any kind of lunch or dinner. Another point of strength is that you can modify the cake only changing the top! My favorite tops are: slices of fresh fruit, gelatine like this time, marmalade or chocolate and little of spray cream.

Here some cheesecake I prepared during the last years:

I hope you enjoyed this post.

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Tricks in this post:
1. Difference between Hot and cold New York Cheesecake;
2. My personal recipe of  Cold New York Cheesecake;
3. Some suggestions for the top: Gelatine of fresh fruit;
4. Some different options
5. Some of my cheesecakes.