Cheesecake without baking: a step-by-step recipe

Cheesecake is always a celebration of taste and good mood. Even though they are sweet and high in calories, they have some lightness. We offer you a recipe for a very tasty and beautiful cheesecake that does not need to be baked.

Ingredients:

• Cookies – 250 grams;
• Butter – 350 grams;
• Cheese – 900 grams;
• Sugar – 300 grams;
• Sour cream – 300 grams;
• Strawberries – 500 grams;
• Cream – 500 ml;
• Gelatin – 30 grams.

Preparation:

1. Grind 250 grams of cookies: you can use a meat grinder, grind it in a blender or with a rolling pin. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar to the crushed cookies, and mix lightly. Add 150 grams of melted butter, and stir until smooth.
2. On the dish on which we will serve the cake, put a ring from a detachable baking dish with a diameter of 28 centimetres. Inside the ring put the prepared cookies, flatten and send them to the refrigerator.
3. Wipe 900 grams of cheese through a sieve or pass it through a meat grinder.
4. Pour 30 grams of gelatin into a glass of water and leave it to swell.
5. Put 200 grams of soft butter in a mixer bowl, add 1 tablespoon of vanilla sugar, beat until white and, without stopping beating, gradually add 300 grams of granulated sugar.
6. In the butter whipped with sugar, in three steps, continuing to beat, add the grated cheese and 300 grams of sour cream, and beat until smooth and lush curd mass.
7. Soaked gelatin, with constant stirring, is heated to a temperature of 60-70 °C and set aside. Whip 500 millilitres of cream, with a fat content of at least 30%, into a thick foam. Add to the curd mass and mix well and gently. Add gelatin (which has already cooled) and mix well again, the mass settles a bit – this is normal. 
8. Get the dish with cookies from the refrigerator, spread the cheese mass in a form on top of the cookies, flatten and send in the refrigerator for 4 hours. 
9. The top layer of cheesecake is strawberry jelly. To prepare it, wash, clean the stalks and cut into halves and quarters 500 grams of strawberries. Put in a saucepan, and add 150 grams of sugar. All the time, stirring, bring to a boil and cook on low heat for 5 minutes. Set aside to allow the jam to cool slightly.
10. To 6 grams of gelatin (approximately 2 teaspoons) pour 3 tablespoons of water, mix and leave to swell. After 20 minutes, put on fire and with constant stirring, bring to a temperature of 60-70 °C. Add gelatin to the jam and mix well. Cool to about 30 °C.
11. Take the cake out of the fridge, spread the jam with gelatin on the frozen cheese mass and send the cake in the fridge for another two hours. 
12. In two hours, take out a very tasty, tender and healthy cheesecake from the refrigerator. Very carefully, using a sharp knife remove the ring. Serve with tea or coffee. Bon appetit!