Decadent Cheesecake with Lemon Curd
Ingredients
Ingredients for Sablé (for two cheesecakes)
- 150 g cold butter
- 30 g almond flour
- 75 g powdered sugar
- 1 egg
- 250 g all purpose flour
Ingredients for Cheesecake Base (for one cheesecake)
- 70 g cream of 10%
- 200 g Sablé
Ingredients for Cheese Layer (for one cheesecake)
- 700 g cream cheese
- 10 g lemon juice
- 3 eggs
- 100 g sugar
- 100 g white chocolate
- 100 g cream 33%
- 60 g flour
Instructions
Making Sablé
- Preheat oven to 170 °C.
- Put all the dry ingredients in a blender bowl, mix with each other, then add the butter and egg and chop the mixture until the dough has gathered in a uniform bowl.
- Roll the dough to a thickness of 2 mm, cut into strips of 7-10 cm and bake in the oven for 15 minutes. A sign of readiness is the browning edges of the strips.
- Chill cookies completely. You may prepare sable beforehand.
Assembling Cheesecake
- Break the cooled sand cake into small pieces, send to the blender bowl and chop into small crumbs.
- Divide the whole crumb into two parts of 200 g each. Pack one part in a zip bag and send to the freezer. It will be your future cheesecake)
- To the second part, add cream and knead soft dough, which is evenly and tightly distributed on the bottom of the cheesecake baking dish.
- Preheat the oven to 170 °C.
- Make a ganache of white chocolate and cream. It is convenient to do in the microwave.
- Add the chocolate mixture. Do not beat, just mix: we do not need air mass. I usually act with a whisk planted on a hand blender: it doesn’t know how to whip, but mixes well.
- Add the eggs one at a time and carefully mix them in the creamy mixture.
- Add flour and mix thoroughly.
- Put the creamy mixture on top of the sand base. If necessary, wrap the mold with foil in several layers. Place the mold in a deep pan, which is filled with boiling water to a third of the height of the mold. Place the cheesecake in the oven for 50 minutes.
- At the end of the baking time, turn off the heating of the oven, and leave the cake inside for another 15 minutes with the door ajar.
- Chill the cheesecake and garnish as you wish: with fresh berries, a thin layer of melted apricot jam or berry curd.
