Sernik Na Zimno (Polish Cheesecake Alongside Cranberry Topping)

Ingredients:

8 oz digestive biscuits

for the cheesecake layer
iii egg yolks (pasteurized if you'd like)
1/3 loving cup saccharide
1 teaspoon vanilla
half dozen cups twarog*
1 tablespoon powdered gelatin
1/3 loving cup mutual frigidity water

for the gelatin layer
iii tablespoons powdered gelatin
1/2 loving cup mutual frigidity water
iii cups 100% (unsweetened) cranberry juice
1/3 loving cup sugar
juice of 1 lemon

optional: fresh cranberries


Directions:
Line the bottom of a nine inch jump shape pan amongst the cookies. Set aside.

for the cheesecake:
Whisk 1 tablespoon gelatin inward 1/3 loving cup of H2O as well as allow it sit down until softened, almost 10 minutes. In a large bowl, mix together the cheese, vanilla as well as saccharide until good blended. Beat inward the egg yolks, as well as then the bloomed gelatin until good mixed. The mixture should await lite as well as creamy Scrape into the lined pan as well as smooth the overstep amongst the dorsum of a spoon. Refrigerate the cheesecake 1-2 hours or until fairly firm.

for the gelatin layer:
If you'd like, adapt fruit on the overstep of the cheesecake. Set aside. Soak the gelatin inward the mutual frigidity H2O inward a large bowl until softened. Meanwhile, select the cranberry juice to a boil. Pour the boiling juice over the gelatin. Stir inward the saccharide as well as lemon juice. Allow to cool for almost 25 minutes as well as then pour to a greater extent than or less over the fruit. Refrigerate until generally set, almost thirty minutes, as well as then pour the remaining cranberry gelatin over the cheesecake, poking downwards whatever floating berries, as well as refrigerate until fully set, almost ii hours.

Carefully opened upwards the jump shape pan as well as piece to serve. Store whatever leftovers inward the refrigerator.

*Look for this soft, curd-y cheese inward Eastern European markets. You could seek substituting farmers cheese.

My thoughts:

This recipe was a chip of an adventure. I came across a motion-picture demo of this cheesecake on a Polish cooking website as well as similar a shot wanted to brand it. The problem was I don't utter or read Polish as well as I couldn't abide by a recipe inward English linguistic communication that seemed evenly vaguely authentic. The few I did abide by were either for the non-gelatin topped version (sernik) or ones that called for regular former American cream cheese which fifty-fifty I could glean was exclusively the incorrect form of texture.

Luckily, using a Polish to English linguistic communication dictionary, watching You Tube videos of Polish cooking shows hence I knew what each pace looked similar as well as venturing downwards to the Polish market, I felt similar I had a pretty skilful sentiment of how to brand it.

I was able to procure the right type of cheese (twarog, which is a lot similar the farmers cheese I've seen at farmers markets) to a greater extent than or less acre cookies (oddly these "digestive biscuits" were hard to abide by inward the regular grocery store. I ended upwards having to role rectangular cookies but if you lot tin hit the axe abide by circular ones similar the 1 this adult woman uses inward this video I found, they would operate wonderfully) to business the bottom of the pan. You tin hit the axe skip the cookies all together, to a greater extent than or less recipes called for it as well as to a greater extent than or less didn't but I liked the sentiment as well as it was slowly since you lot don't brand a truthful crust.

On to the residual of the recipe. I made a unproblematic no bake cheesecake filling amongst gelatin added for stability as well as popped it inward the fridge to laid up. I wanted to brand cranberry flavored gelatin (aka jelly aka Jell-O) since I was serving this for Thanksgiving as well as was honestly simply going to purchase a box as well as last done amongst it (I did non come across a unmarried Polish recipe that did non role a pre-fab mix packet) but obviously grocery stores create non sell cranberry flavored Jell-O inward Oct hence I picked upwards a bottle of 100% (unsweetened) cranberry juice as well as made my own. If you lot tin hit the axe abide by cranberry Jell-O or desire to brand a dissimilar flavor, you lot could simply role the box. I won't tell. Just accept tending to role a petty less H2O hence the Jell-O is firmer than normal. I had a vision though hence I had to brand my ain as well as honestly, it isn't whatever to a greater extent than hard than making the mix, simply a petty to a greater extent than expensive because you lot receive got to purchase the juice as well as acre gelatin as well as non simply a 80¢ box. So I made the cranberry gelatin as well as then popped that inward the fridge to fully laid earlier serving. If you lot are making your own, I proportioned the recipe hence you lot only involve 1 4-packet box of unflavored (aka Knox) gelatin: 1 for the cheesecake, iii for the gelatin layer. Depending on how tall your pan is, you lot may halt upwards amongst excess cranberry gelatin. Either pour it into a bowl or mold as well as allow to laid inward the fridge for an extra process or discard. All of this sounds terribly complicated but honestly, it is an incredibly unproblematic recipe to brand as well as requires no cooking.

It was worth all of the query to receive got a piece of creamy cheese cake topped amongst tart cranberries!