Indulge in the classic New York-style cheesecake elevated with a delectable shortbread crust. This timeless dessert combines a creamy, velvety cheesecake filling nestled atop a buttery, crumbly shortbread base. Experience the perfect balance of tangy and sweet in every bite. Our collection of recipes offers various renditions of this iconic treat, catering to different dietary preferences and taste sensations. From the traditional New York-style cheesecake to gluten-free, vegan, and even no-bake options, we've got you covered. Get ready to embark on a culinary journey that will satisfy your cheesecake cravings like never before.
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NEW YORK CHEESECAKE WITH SHORTBREAD CRUST
Light, creamy and smooth, this traditional New York cheesecake will melt in your mouth. I rely on a tender change-of-pace shortbread crust instead of graham cracker crust. This recipe takes time, but it's not difficult, and the result is well worth the effort. -Karen Nielson, St. George, Utah
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 2h20m
Yield 16 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 23
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 325°. Place a greased 9-in. springform pan on a double thickness of heavy-duty foil (about 18 in. square). Wrap foil securely around pan. Place on a baking sheet., In a small bowl, mix flour, sugar and lemon zest; cut in butter until crumbly. Add egg yolks and vanilla, tossing with a fork until mixture pulls together., Press onto bottom and 1-1/2 in. up sides of prepared pan. Bake until lightly browned, 12-16 minutes. Cool on a wire rack., Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in cream, flour, vanilla, lemon juice and zest. Add eggs and egg yolks; beat on low speed just until blended. Pour into crust. Place springform pan in a larger baking pan; add 1 in. of hot water to larger pan., Bake until center is just set and top appears dull, 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours. Remove springform pan from water bath. Cool cheesecake on a wire rack 10 minutes. Loosen sides from pan with a knife; remove foil. Cool 1 hour longer. Refrigerate overnight, covering when completely cooled. Remove rim of pan. In a small saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch. Gradually add cranberry and lemon juices. Stir in 1 cup raspberries. Bring to a boil; cook and stir until thickened, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir in butter., Strain sauce; discard seeds. Cool to room temperature. Stir in the blueberries, blackberries and remaining raspberries. Serve with cheesecake.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 494 calories, Fat 36g fat (21g saturated fat), Cholesterol 200mg cholesterol, Sodium 295mg sodium, Carbohydrate 37g carbohydrate (28g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 8g protein.
NEW YORK CHEESECAKE III
A dense, thick cheesecake with a shortdough crust. This is THE definitive one! You'll never use another cheesecake recipe after you try this.
Provided by Sandy
Categories Desserts Cakes Holiday Cake Recipes
Yield 16
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly coat a 10 inch springform pan with spray oil. Note: You could use a 9x13 inch pan instead.
- To make the crust: Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 1/3 cup sugar, 1 egg and 1/2 cup butter or margarine. Spread to the edges of the pan. Prick all over with a fork, then bake 15 minutes at 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Allow to cool.
- Increase oven temperature to 475 degrees F (245 degrees C). In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, 1 3/4 cups sugar, 3 tablespoons flour, 5 eggs and the yolks and mix thoroughly. Add cream and mix only enough to blend.
- Pour filling over crust and bake for 10 minutes at 475 degrees F (245 degrees C). Reduce temperature to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C) and continue to bake for one hour. Turn oven off, but leave cake in for another hour. Don't worry if it looks a little jiggly in the center.
- Chill overnight. This is imperative! If desired, top with your favorite fruit or serve plain.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 493.4 calories, Carbohydrate 38.3 g, Cholesterol 193.7 mg, Fat 34.4 g, Fiber 0.4 g, Protein 9.5 g, SaturatedFat 20.9 g, Sodium 279.8 mg, Sugar 26.4 g
THE BEST NEW YORK-STYLE CHEESECAKE
This cheesecake replicates all the iconic slices we have enjoyed in the Big Apple, with a dense, creamy texture and that familiar lemony tang paired with plenty of graham-cracker crust. Now you can make New York-Style Cheesecake at home and save yourself a ticket to the city.
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories dessert
Time 12h45m
Yield 8 to 10 servings
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- For the crust: Position an oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees F.
- Mix together the graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, brown sugar and salt in a medium bowl until evenly moistened.
- Press the crumb mixture into the bottom and halfway up the sides of a 9-inch springform pan. Bake the crust until golden brown, 15 to 18 minutes.
- Cool completely on a rack. Wrap the bottom and up the sides of the pan with foil and place in a roasting pan.
- For the filling: Add the cream cheese to a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat on medium speed until smooth. Add the granulated sugar and beat, scraping the sides of the bowl as needed, until light and fluffy. Gradually add the cream, beating until combined. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add the lemon zest and juice, vanilla and salt and beat just until combined, taking care not to over whip. Pour into the crust.
- Bring a kettle of water to a boil. Carefully place the roasting pan in the oven (don't pull the rack out of the oven). Pour enough hot water in the roasting pan to come about halfway up the side of the foil-wrapped springform pan.
- Bake until the top of the cheesecake is lightly browned around the edges, but the center still jiggles slightly, about 2 hours.
- Remove the cheesecake from the roasting pan to a rack. Run a knife around the edges and cool to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate at least 8 hours and up to overnight.
- Bring the cheesecake to room temperature 30 minutes before serving. Remove the springform ring. Dip a knife in warm water and wipe dry before slicing each piece.
NEW YORK STYLE CHEESECAKE ON SHORTBREAD CRUST
This is the consummate cheesecake. You won't want any other's after you've had this one. I like to take my ingredients out on Friday morning before work and bake it Friday night when it's cool and quiet. That way it's ready to serve early Saturday.
Provided by Steve_G
Categories Cheesecake
Time 3h30m
Yield 1 ten inch cake, 16 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- PREP------.
- As with all baking, have all your ingredients at a cool room temperature (65°F).
- Get a couple quarts of water boiling on the stove.
- Arrange racks in your oven so there's one on the lowest and one in the middle. If you do not have a center position then go mid-lower.
- Have a clean 10x14x2-inch (give or take) roasting pan ready.
- Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).
- Grease 10 inch springform pan.
- CRUST-------.
- Gently combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 1/3 cup sugar, 1 egg and 1/2 cup butter in a medium bowl.
- Spread to the edges of the pan.
- Prick all over with a fork, then bake 10-15 minutes at 400°F until lightly browned. Allow to cool on a rack.
- FILLING------.
- Increase oven temperature to 475°F.
- Turn oven light off (trust me on this one), place roasting pan on bottom rack and fill with boiling water.
- In a large bowl (I use my stand mixer), very gently beat cream cheese until smooth. I use the slowest setting for 5 minutes.
- Scrape down sides of bowl.
- Gradually add the salt, 1 3/4 cups sugar and 3 tablespoons flour -- continue to beat SLOWLY until well combined, scrape down sides of bowl.
- In a small bowl gently beat the vanilla, 5 eggs and the 2 yolks, gradually add eggs to the cream cheese mixture.
- Continue to stir until combined and smooth, stop mixer occasionally and scrape down sides.
- VERY IMPORTANT! Stop mixer, remove bowl and give it a good scraping (some of the cream cheese will stick to the sides and bottom of the bowl), replace bowl on mixer and stir until all lumps are gone.
- Add cream and mix only enough to blend.
- Gently pour filling over crust, run a thin knife around the filling in a S pattern to remove any trapped air bubbles. Let it sit on the counter for 5 minutes then do it again.
- Bake for 10 minutes at 475°F.
- Reduce temperature to 200°F and continue to bake for one hour.
- Turn oven off, but leave cake in for another hour.
- DON'T TOUCH THAT OVEN DOOR! You've created a nice, humid environment that will help prevent cracks and produce a perfect, professional, NY style cheese cake assuming you didn't mess with it by changing the atmospheric conditions.
- It may appear a little jiggly in the center and will have a golden appearance around the edges.
- Allow to cool on a rack for several hours, release the latch slightly on the side of the pan after 20 minutes, rotate sides to be sure the cake is free (but don't take it off yet), you can remove the sides after an hour (or so) if you want to admire your work, but replace it quickly or the cake may fall.
- After it's cool, wrap completely with plastic wrap, there should be a layer stuck to the top of the cake.
- Chill overnight in the refrigerator (Yes, this is required).
- The cake will stay at peak flavor for several days so long as you keep it wrapped and cold.
- What can go wrong?.
- If the cake cracks you either had your ingredients too cold, mixed the filling too vigorously, opened the oven door while the cake was cooking or didn't have a pan of water in the oven.
- If it does crack, don't despair -- just cover with a dark fruit or a layer of cookie crumbs.
- Toppings------.
- Nothing (my favorite).
- OR, boil a bag of frozen berries with a 1/4 cup of sugar until the liquid coats the back of a spoon, thicken with a table spoon of cornstarch mixed into a 1/4 cup of cold water -- Pour in slowly while maintaining the boil and stirring constantly.
- Adjust thickness by adding liquid or more cornstarch.
- Flavor with liqueur, fruit juice or extract.
- Blueberries or raspberries with Chambord is awesome, cherries work well with Frangelico or Amaretto. If you do use an alcoholic beverage, be sure to boil off alcohol. Cool fruit sauce in a mason jar and refrigerate. Keeps longer than the cheese cake!
- I've served it with caramel sauce and, buttered/sliced/baked apples .
- A light milk chocolate sauce, a sprinkle of chopped pecans and dollop of whipped cream will produce a nice turtle cake.
NEW YORK CHEESECAKE WITH LORNA DOONE COOKIE CRUST
This is my Auntie Ann's recipe. Her husband loved everything she made, but if he saw her preparing this cheesecake tears of joy appeared in his eyes. She gave me permission to post it here for her, but she refuses to look at the calorie and fat calculations over there in that "mean" nutritional info box. Avert your eyes from the chart and instead bring a few tears of joy to someone's eyes. If you're going to eat cheesecake you might as well go for the best.
Provided by marinecopper
Categories Pie
Time 1h45m
Yield 10 slices, 10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- For Crust:.
- Finely crush entire pkg of cookies, mix in the butter. This can be done in a food processor on pulse. Butter the sides of the springform pan. Press the cookie mixture into bottom of 9 inch springform pan. DO NOT BAKE.
- For Filling:.
- Beat together cream cheese, sugar, flour and zests (if using). Add the 5 eggs and 2 egg yolks one at a time. Add the vanilla into the cream, and then add the cream to the cheese mixture. Beat on low speed (it's easiest to use a counter top heavy duty mixer) until all ingredients are incorporated.
- Place the springform pan with crust in the center of a shallow baking pan (to avoid oven drips). Pour filling into crust, it will be completely full. Place in the middle of oven for 12 minutes. Reduce oven temp to 250F and continue baking (approx. 1 hr to 1 hr 15 mins) until the center is mostly firm but still has a slight jiggle. (A little jiggle is good, if you overbake it you will end up with cracks that can be covered with a nice fruit topping to hide your sin).
- After removing from oven, run a knife around the edge and cool on a rack for 6 hours Remove side of springform pan and transer to a flat plate.
- It can be kept refrigerated for up to 2 weeks (good luck on it still being around), but is best served after allowing to return to room temperature.
Tips:
- Use high-quality cream cheese: Look for cream cheese that is smooth and spreadable, with no lumps or graininess.
- Bring the cream cheese to room temperature before using: This will help it mix more smoothly with the other ingredients.
- Use a food processor or blender to mix the filling: This will help to ensure that the filling is smooth and lump-free.
- Do not overmix the filling: Overmixing can make the filling dense and tough.
- Bake the cheesecake in a water bath: This will help to prevent the cheesecake from cracking.
- Let the cheesecake cool completely before serving: This will help the cheesecake to set properly.
Conclusion:
This New York-style cheesecake on shortbread crust is a classic dessert that is perfect for any occasion. The creamy, rich filling is perfectly balanced by the buttery, crumbly crust. With a few simple tips, you can make this cheesecake at home that will impress your friends and family.
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