Easy Cheesecake Recipe – Oma's einfacher Käsekuchen
This easy cheesecake recipe, aka einfacher Käsekuchen, will certainly WOW your family! It's moist, delicious, and best of all, easy! It's the perfect refreshing summer treat.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr 10 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup butter
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 pounds ricotta
- ¼ cup sour cream
- ½ cup whipping cream
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- zest of 1 lemon
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 large eggs
Instructions
- 1
Using mixer, beat together all pastry ingredients.
- 2
Form dough into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap. Place in fridge to chill.
- 3
Preheat oven to 350°F.
- 4
Grease 10-inch springform pan.
- 5
Roll out chilled dough (on a lightly floured surface) and place in bottom and up sides of pan.
- 6
Prick dough in several places with a fork.
- 7
Place all the filling ingredients in either a blender or food processor (fitted with a metal chopping blade) and pulse about 10 times. Scrape down sides. Process a further 30 seconds until creamy.
- 8
Pour into pastry shell. Smooth top.
- 9
Bake at 350°F for about 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a wooden toothpick, inserted about 2 inches from edge, comes out clean.
- 10
To minimize the top of the cake from 'cracking', let the cake cool in the oven with the door slightly opened.
- 11
When cooled, remove side of springform pan. For best flavor, place cake in fridge for several hours before serving.