On the way back from the Amalfi Coast, on the first day of the year 2019 we stopped at the restaurant of the hotel “Tiziana” in Montepulciano (Tre Berte area) where, after a meat-based lunch, they served us a berry cheesecake.
Cheesecake is a cold dessert made of a biscuit base covered with a thick layer of sweetened fresh cream cheese.
It can be baked (like the NY Cheesecake) or not.
This is a baked version, with a cream made of cream cheese, eggs, and sugar, with berries, but gluten and lactose-freeo, for a springform pan 22 cm.
- Difficulty: Medium
- Cost: Medium
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 8 servings
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients
- 13 oz Gluten-free and lactose-free dry biscuits
- 5 oz Clarified butter
- 24 oz Lactose-free cream cheese
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- to taste Orange blossom or vanilla essence
- 4 Eggs
- 5 oz Berries
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 320 °F.
Melt the clarified butter in a bain-marie (or alternatively in the microwave). Crumble the biscuits and mix them with the melted butter.
In another bowl, whisk the cream cheese with sugar and orange blossom essence using an electric mixer: work the ingredients until the mixture is smooth and homogeneous.
Add the eggs to the sweetened and flavored cream cheese: one at a time, mixing with the electric beater at the lowest possible speed.
Place the crumbled biscuits mixed with butter at the bottom of a non-stick springform baking pan, then pour the creamy mixture over it.
Bake the cheesecake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven.
Once cooked, let it cool before removing from the pan.
Serve the dessert cold with fresh berries or slightly warmed in a pan with sugar.
Notes
The texture of the biscuit base will be more crumbly due to the lack of gluten. The cream cheese will be sweeter because of the absence of lactose (see HERE why).
Gluten is a peptide compound typically found in some grains, especially wheat or similar (spelt, emmer, triticale, kamut), but also in rye, barley, and often oats.
Here is the video recipe:
You can purchase gluten-free biscuits suitable for the recipe online.
