Lime cheesecakes

Bring a little zing with this fresh, citrus-flavored dessert.

Ingredients:

4 vanilla wafers or graham crackers
1 cup cream cheese, at room temperature
1 cup sweetened condensed milk
finely grated lime zest and juice of 2 limes
extra lime zest, for garnish (optional)

Preparation:

1. Line the bottom of each of four 6oz (175ml) ramekins with a wafer.Put the cream cheese in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth, then beat in the condensed milk until well blended.
2. Add the zest and juice and beat until the mixture becomes thick and glossy. Divide among the ramekins and smooth the tops. Chill for at least 4 hours. Garnish with the extra lime zest (if using) and serve.

Apple Cheesecake Recipe

CRUST:

1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup flour

Preheat oven at 350 F.
Beat together butter and sugar. Mix in flour.
Press dough on bottom and up sides of a 9" springform pan. Bake for 15 minutes.

FILLING:

3 large apples, sliced 3/8" thick
2 tbsp butter
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbsp cream 35%
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
Grated rind of a lemon
1 lemon juice

In a frying pan melt butter over medium fire. Add sugar. Cook apple in it for 5 minutes.
Add 2 tbsp cream and cook for 5 more minutes, stirring occasionally. Do not overcook. Put aside.
With Mixmaster at speed 8 beat cream cheese and brown sugar. When well mixed, add eggs, one at a time. Do not overbeat.
Reduce speed to 3 and add sour cream, zest and juice.
With slotted spoon place the apples on the crust, then pour filling.
Preheat oven at 350 F.

TOPPING:

1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup butter

Whip with Mixmaster st speed 8 until mixture is in small lumps.
Sprinkle over cream.
Place pan over a cookie sheet and bake at 350 F for 1 hour.
When cooled, refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight.

Pistachio Cheesecake Recipe

This pistachio cheesecake is one of a delicious baked cheesecake which can be served at any occasional parties as dessert. Instead of using pistachio essence pistachio pudding mix is used in the recipe which makes it more delicious

Ingredients:

1 pack graham cracker cookies
1-2 tbsp butter (melted)
2 eggs
2 cup cream cheese (softened)
6 oz pistachio pudding mix
½ cup sour cream

Topping:
1 cup heavy cream
4 tbsp powdered sugar
½ cup pistachio (chopped)

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Make soft crumbs of cookies with butter and then make a layer of these crumbs onto the base of a sprinform baking pan.
3. Bake this crust for just 5 min at 350 degrees F.
4. In a mixing bowl, beat eggs until become fluffy.
5. Timely add cream cheese to the beaten eggs and beat well to make smooth batter.
6. Now gradually add pudding mix and sour cream and mix at slow speed until become uniform.
7. Pour this batter over the prepared crust and place in preheated oven for 30 min at 375 degrees F.
8. Meanwhile prepare topping for cake, for that you have to beat heavy cream and sugar until stiff peaks are formed.
9. When the cake have been done cool it to room temperature, then spread the whipped cream over the whole cake and top with crushed pistachio.
10. Refrigerate this cake for at least 2 hrs until topping sets completely and then serve.

New York Cheesecake Recipe

This is special New York Cheesecake which takes little more time for baking as compare to other cheesecakes. The cake is baked in two steps first with filling only and second is with topping, you may also mix strawberry sauce in sour cream topping and then bake which gives it marble like texture and looks good in presentation.

Ingredients:

For Crust:

7 oz graham vanilla wafer crumbs
5 oz granulated sugar
4 oz butter (melted)

For Filling:

32 oz cream cheese (softened)
6.5 oz granulated sugar
3 tbsp all-purpose flour
5 large eggs
1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla extract

For Topping:

4 oz sour cream
2 tbsp granulated sugar
½ tsp pure vanilla extract
Strawberry sauce with chunks

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. To make crust combine wafer, melted butter and sugar using hands only so that soft crumbs are form which can easily set onto the base of springform pan.
3. Transfer the crumbs into the springform pan and press tightly so that solid crust would form. Place the pan in fridge until rest of the procedure would not complete.
4. To prepare filling for the cheesecake, beat cream cheese and sugar for 2-3 min at high speed until become creamy. Don’t over-beat the cream cheese otherwise your cake may crack after baking.
5. Add eggs one by one and beat well.
6. After that add flour and vanilla and mix at low speed so that no lumps of flour would remain in the batter.
7. Now fold the batter with whipping cream and then pour over the prepared crust. Place the pan in preheated oven at first for 15 min, then reduce the temperature to 250 degrees F for 80-90 min until become firm. You can check it by inserting knife edge in the center if it comes out clean then the cake is ready to take out from oven.
8. While the cake is baking prepare topping, for that you need to lightly beat sour cream, sugar and vanilla until become creamy in texture.
9. When the cake has been done spread the layer of prepared topping on top surface and again bake for further 15 min.
10. After that cool it to room temperature and then top with strawberry sauce.

No Bake Cheesecake Recipe

No bake cheesecakes are very easy to make in very short time and different flavors of fruits can be added to it like strawberry, mango etc. Cheesecakes are usually served as dessert on occasions like any anniversaries and is also considered top gift item. Cheesecakes are dairy desserts as they contain milk, cream and cheese.

Ingredients:

200g ground digestive biscuits or as required (depends upon the size of your pan)

For Batter:
100g Melted butter (as required according to quantity of biscuits)
100g condense milk
100g whipped cream
100g cream cheese
2 tbspn gelatin powder
½ cup strawberry paste

Preparation:

1. Take a deep pan of cake and mix ground biscuits and butter together so that crumbs of biscuits have been formed and after that by pressing make its layer on the base of the pan around ½ to 1 inch thick.
2. Put the pan in the microwave for 8-10 mins and then leave it in fridge for 15 minutes so that the ground biscuits have been set and make crust layer.
3. Now in other bowl mix using beater cream cheese, whipped cream, condense milk and strawberry paste (you can also used crushed strawberries).
4. Make a paste of gelatin powder and ¼ cup water. Boil water in a deep pan and put the bowl of gelatin paste on it and stir continuously to dissolve it.
5. Mix the melted gelatin in the cream mixture. You can use this batter in strawberry cake also.
6. Take out the pan of crust from the fridge and pour this batter over it and leave in the fridge for 3 hrs.
Servings:
When cake has been set after 3 hrs garnish it with strawberries and serve your No bake cheesecake with any other snack like Donuts.