If you like cheesecakes you will love this one. The filling is made with ricotta and mascarpone and gives the cake a very light and creamy texture. For the topping you can use any kind of berries you like, or you just serve it plain, simply dusted with powdered sugar.
Preheat the oven to 180° C, line the base of a 24 cm baking tin with baking paper.
- 120g butter melted
- 200g digestive biscuits, made into fine crumbs
- 500g ricotta
- 250g mascarpone
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 100g sugar
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 4 large eggs
- 300g berries
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 gelatine leaves
- Melt the butter in a medium pan. Stir in the biscuit crumbs until the mixture is evenly moistened. Press the mixture into the bottom of the tin and bake for about 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack while preparing the filling.
- For the cake filling beat the ricotta, mascarpone, vanilla extract, sugar and lemon juice until creamy.
- Whisk in the eggs, one at a time.
- Brush the sides of the baking tin with butter, pour in the filling and bake it on the second lowest rack of the oven, for about 50 minutes, until the filling has set but is still a little wobbly in the center.
- Turn off the oven, open the door and let cool the cake in the oven for 1 hour. Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool completely.
- For the berry topping soak the gelatine leaves in cold water for about 5 minutes.
- In a heatproof pan combine the water and sugar and bring it to a boil until the sugar disolves. Gently sqeeze out the excess water of the gelatine leaves, add to the hot syrup and stir until dissolved.
- Add the strawberries and the blueberries and then very gently fold in the raspberries. Remove the pan from the heat.
- With a slottet spoon spread the berries over the cheesecake, cover it loosely with foil and refrigerate for at least 3 hours or overnight.
Happy baking!
Made this cake today and it tasted simply superb, and making it was really effortless too! Thank you for this recipe, I will totally save it 🙂
One question though, the berry topping was really scant (the liquidy part), and now I think 1 tbsp of sugar and water each is not enough. Can I just increase those amounts without adding more gelatine, or how should I go about this? Thanks 🙂
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Hello Math, thank you for your lovely comment and I‘m happy you like the cake as I do 🤗 I’m so sorry for my late reply! I would just add a bit more water/sugar and maybe 1/2 leafe of gelantine. I hope that helps. Happy baking 🎄✨
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Love baked cheesecakes so much. The berry compote on top seeping through the cheesecake is wonderful .
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Nice and yum recipe 🙂
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Thank you, I’m glad you like it! Have a nice day☺
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So guet! Häsch vorig? 😘
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Dankeschön☺, ich han d’Reschte mit is Büro gno und det isch de Chueche rüubis & stüübis und in Rekordtempo ufgässe worde…. ☺☺☺
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Wonderful!
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Thank you Kay, it really tastes wonderful 🤩
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