Banana cheesecake with cottage cheese and cookies

American cheesecake is usually made with soft cheeses such as mascarpone or Philadelphia, as well as with savoiardi sticks. But, unfortunately, the products required by the classic recipe are not available everywhere. The same applies to confectionery cream - in our small town they need to be ordered. I redid the recipe “for myself”: I replaced the cream with butter and bananas, savoiardi with sweet cookies, and instead of scarce cheese I use homemade cottage cheese. From simple and affordable ingredients, an airy and fragrant cheesecake is obtained. I am happy to tell you about how to make a banana cheesecake with cottage cheese and cookies at home in my recipe with step by step photos.

Ingredients:

• 600 grams of homemade cottage cheese;
• 3 eggs;
• 10 tbsp Sahara;
• 2 bananas;
• 4 grams of vanillin;
• 200 gr butter;
• 400 gr cookies.

How to make Banana Cheesecake with Cottage Cheese and Cookies

First, you need to grind the cookies with a blender into coarse flour.

Divide 2/3 of the butter into two equal parts. Soften the first part of the butter and mix with cookie flour.

Melt the second part and also pour into the cookie dough. Mix well.

Separate the yolks from the proteins and put the proteins in the refrigerator.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or foil and brush lightly with sunflower oil. Place a basket of cookie crumbs about 1 cm thick on the bottom and along the edges of the baking sheet. The cookies indicated in the recipe are designed for a round baking sheet with a diameter of 23-24 cm.

Place the cookie sheet in the refrigerator.

Grind cottage cheese through a sieve, add egg yolks to it, 7 tbsp. sugar, vanilla and beat with a blender.

Then, add bananas and the remaining softened butter. Turn on the oven to heat up to 180 ⁰ C.

Take chilled proteins, beat them until a thick foam forms, add 3 tbsp. sugar and beat until the egg whites stand up.

Gently introduce the protein mass into the curd.

Put the resulting dough into a mold with a basket of cookies, smooth with a silicone spatula or spoon.

Put in the oven for 40 minutes. After the time has elapsed, turn off the oven and open it. Leave the cake there to cool.

Chilled cheesecake refrigerate for 1 hour. When it hardens, you can cut and serve.

For a festive serving, you can pour a cooled homemade cheesecake with chocolate icing or gelatin-based cream. Then, in the refrigerator, he should spend at least 3 hours.

Instead of savoiardi, you can use sweet biscuits or sugar biscuits (best with the taste of baked milk). Bananas should be taken at medium ripeness - not green, but firm. Then they will not only saturate the cake with a delicate aroma, but also partially replace the cream.