Vancouver Vanilla
The Cheesecake: a crustless, Vancouver style cheesecake, which we served with a blueberry rum sauce and fresh blueberries. The filling is yummy — sweet, very creamy, and light with a noticeable vanilla flavoring.
Vancouver Cheesecake
OK. We made a few errors with our first solo cheesecake, but did succeed in making something quite tasty. Our goal was to make this Vancouver style cheesecake. According to Wikipedia’s cheesecake entry: “Vancouver-style cheesecake is a light, airy style made without a crust, primarily in vanilla and chocolate and often served refrigerated with various local fruit toppings such as British Columbia strawberries, raspberries and cherries.”
So, recipe in hand (or rather, iPhone), we hit up the farmer’s market and the supermarket, when the obvious flaw occurred to us — We don’t own a pie dish. [oops.]
Making the cake itself was not difficult…but due to some knife balancing stupidity in our tiny Manhattan kitchen, I managed to slice my thumb. [dumb.] I also managed to explode some whipping cream in the kitchen, but we don’t need to discuss that.
I think there is a nice life lesson to learn here somehow. Something about persevering, or making do with what you have, or getting dirty. Or maybe it’s just about eating more cheesecake.
The Recipe:
- 16 oz cream cheese
- 1/2 cup ricotta cheese
- 6 large eggs
- 2/3 cup whipping cream
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Beat together cream cheese and ricotta until smooth. We did this by hand, because we don’t own a mixer. [surprise.]
Beat in eggs, whipping cream, and lemon.
Fold in vanilla.
Pour into a baking pan and bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes.
Remove from oven – the cheesecake should be a bit jelly-like in the center. Let cool, then refrigerate for at least 4 hours. Slice and serve, with the topping of your choice.
We made a blueberry rum topping and ate this on a Sunday night, while watching the X-files. It wasn’t necessarily the smoothest adventure, but it was certainly an adventure — and it tasted good.
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- Ingredients
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- Messiness
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- Folding in Vanilla
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- Full Vancouver Cheesecake
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- Blueberries
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- A Slice of Vancouver Cheesecake