Birthday present ideas: Cheesecake

Try this amazing cheesecake recipe, it's so rich and tasty, you will never buy the ready-made one again :)

Ingredient list:

For the CRUST:
- 450 g / 16 oz graham crackers or oatmeal biscuits – the best ones to use have a caramel flavour and a touch of cinnamon
- 150 g / 0.6 cup unsalted butter
- 100 g / 0.5 cup white and brown sugar mixed (you can use just white sugar as well)
- add some cinnamon if your biscuits don’t have it already

For the FILLING:
- 750 g / 3 cups unsalted cottage cheese, cream cheese or mascarpone. I usually use equal quantities of each cheese mentioned here.
- 400 g / 2 cups white sugar
- 3 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ½ vanilla bean, by the way, I use the vanilla seeds for almost any dessert I make
- a pinch of salt
- 3 tbsp flour
- 5 eggs
- 1 tbsp condensed milk. This is not mandatory, it’s fine if you don’t have it.

For the TOPPING:
- 150 ml / 0.6 cup sour cream
- 3 tbsp white sugar
- a few vanilla seeds

For the FINAL LAYER:
- 1 kg / 2 lb strawberries or mixed berries
- 400 g / 1 cup jam. you wanna use sour jam, like berries or sour cherry because the cake itself is pretty sweet

STEP 1: Preparing the CRUST
Preheat the oven at 160°C / 320 °F.
Crumble the graham crackers with a blender.
Put the cracker crumbs in a bowl together with the melted butter and the sugar.
Mix with a spatula until the 3 ingredients become 1.
Use whatever you have, I used this cake baking tin which I love, because it’s very easy to work with the cake in the end.
Shape the crust with your hands going up on the tin walls.
And in the oven it goes for 8 minutes. Then get it out from the oven and let it cool down.

STEP 2: Preparing the cheesy FILLING
Using the same bowl, mix the cheese with the sugar, the lemon juice, the vanilla beans and the salt.
Add the flour little by little and continue mixing.
Add each egg, one at a time and mix some more. I ended up using just 4 eggs, they are from the countryside and seemed very rich.
Pour the filling over the crust and level it.
Up in the oven for 45 minutes, or until you see that the filling is not very shaky.
After it’s done, get it out of the oven and let it cool down.

STEP 3: Preparing the next layer
This is easy. Just mix the sour cream and the 3 tbsp of sugar and add a few vanilla seeds. Add this over the filling and use the oven again for just 5 minutes.
OK, now, get it out of the oven, let it chill and then put it in the fridge for a few hours.

STEP 4: Preparing the FINAL LAYER
Pour the jelly or gem or whatever you have. I used homemade sour cherries and berries gem that I made last year.
First pour the gem and then decorate with the fruits as you want. I used fresh strawberries and some frozen mixed berries which I defrosted first.

STEP 5: Enjoy!

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