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Basque Cheesecake recipe

Basque Cheesecake

Rekha Kakkar
Basque Cheesecake or burnt basque cheesecake recipe from Spain. Easy to make creamy, delicious with a caramelised top and custardy centre. La Vina style cheesecake
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Dessert, Sweet
Cuisine continental, Spanish
Servings 10
Calories 327 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 335 g cream cheese
  • 110 g mascarpone
  • 165 g sugar powdered
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 egg yolk
  • ¼ teaspoon sea salt
  • 205 ml heavy cream
  • ½ teaspoon teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 25 g Cake flour/ all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon lime juice

Instructions
 

  • First, add in cream cheese in a big mixing bowl and whisk it using a hand mixer. Otherwise you can do all of these steps using peddle attachment in a stand mixer.
  • Add castor sugar or powdered sugar and again whisk it well.
  • In the mixing bowl add two eggs plus one yolk and whisk it well.
  • Add whisking cream/35% fat cream and mix it well. Now add salt and vanilla and lime juice and whisk to combine well.
  • Tip in cake flour and gently mix to combine well.
  • Now to bake the cake, take a springform pan and apply butter on the bottom of the pan.
  • Take a big parchment paper and line the cake tin with it. Add cheesecake batter in the pan.
  • Now bake the cheesecake at 220C for 22 minutes -28minutes. Check it at 25th minute if it is not burnt too much and bake it for 3 more minutes.

Notes

  • I have used cake flour because it has less gluten as compared to regular AP flour. AP flour because of gluten makes it chewy.
  • If you do not have cake flour use all-purpose flour/maida because the quantity used is very small so I think it hardly makes a difference.
  • This is one of those recipes where I found different mixing techniques for basque cheesecake. You can mix it with a usual wire whisk, use a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, use a hand mixer or even blend everything in a blender.
  • Whichever method of mixing you pick I suggest resting the cheesecake batter for 10-15 minutes to settle down the air pockets that are created by whisking. And this yields a good texture to your cheesecake.

Nutrition

Calories: 327kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 5gFat: 25gSaturated Fat: 15gCholesterol: 128mgSodium: 193mgPotassium: 74mgFiber: 1gSugar: 18gVitamin A: 979IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 69mgIron: 1mg
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