Farmers Cheese Cherry Cheese Cake |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 0 Minutes Servings: 20 |
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Having bought farmers cheese on sale, I decided to try to recreate and bake a cherry cheese cake my mom's neighbor always baked around the holidays. It really tastes how I remember! Its sweet and refreshing and filled with cherries. Read more . This does not have the NY style cream cheese texture- however it's light textured, sweet, pink, pretty and most luscious for a low fat cheesecake! Farmers cheese is a white fresh cheese that has texture similar to cottage cheese., normally low in fat- sometimes called pot cheese and is used in many European based recipes for cheese pies, blintzes, cheese fillings etc. I hope you like my recipe as much as we do! Ingredients:
butter for the pan |
cookie or cake crumbs finely crushed or finely crushed nuts |
2 lbs farmer's cheese |
1 cup sour cream |
1 cup sugar |
2 tsp vanilla |
3 large eggs |
1 tbs cornstarch |
1 can cherry pie filling for filling and topping divided |
1/2 c to 1 cup sour cream for topping |
1 tbs sugar |
1 tsp vanilla |
Directions:
1. Butter a 9 inch springform pan
2. Dust with leftover cake or cookie crumbs or finely chopped nuts
3. Beat the farmers cheese with hand electric mixer med speed to make smooth as possible.
4. Add sugar, vanilla and eggs and beat low speed to make mixture creamy and smooth
5. It should be thick and creamy
6. Blend in sour cream
7. Blend in the cornstarch.
8. Place 1/2 of batter in pan
9. Place canned filling in a bowl
10. Remove cherries with your fingers, shaking off excess filling and scatter cherries here and there over filling as many as you prefer
11. Place arefully the remaining cheese cake batter over cherries
12. Repeat adding cherries on top of batter here and there ,reserving any cherry filling and some cherries which will be used for the topping
13. Bake cheesecake in a 300F oven 1 - 1 1/2 hrs OR until top jiggles like a custard
14. Mix enough sour cream with remaining cherry filling, sugar and vanilla to taste and carefully spoon over top of cheesecake, spreading carefully and gently
15. Return to oven to bake 1/2 hour moreORr until sour cream topping appears set
16. Remove cake from oven, cool on rack and then chill overnight before cutting and serving
17. Carefully slice cake with sharp serated knife, wiping knife clean after each cut
18. Serve cake with adding cherry pie filling, vanilla ice cream or even a dollop of whiped cream if desired
19. I hope you enjoy this dessert I recreated from my childhood memories!!!
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