Red Wine Pear Cheesecake.
Ingredients of Red Wine Pear Cheesecake
- You need of preparing pears.
- You need 4 of ripe pears.
- You need 400 ml of red wine.
- You need 1 of cinnamon stick.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of sugar.
- It’s of For the streusel.
- It’s 12 tbsp of butter.
- You need 1 cup of flour (whatever you use).
- You need 1/2 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of vanilla sugar.
- You need 1 medium of egg.
- You need of For the filling.
- You need 2 cup of Greek yogurt.
- You need 1 cup of crème fraîche.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of sugar.
- It’s 1 packages of vanilla pudding powder.
- It’s 2 medium of egg yolks.
- You need 2 medium of egg whites.
- Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
- You need of For the topping.
- It’s 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.
- It’s 1 tbsp of liquid from pears.
Red Wine Pear Cheesecake step by step
- To prepare the pears, rinse, dry, peal, halve and remove the seed. Put the red wine in a small pot with sugar and cinnamon. Add pear halves and bring to a boil and cook over low heat for about 15 minutes. Remove pan from the heat. Let the liquid cool for at least 2-3 hours. Drain pears in a colander and have the liquid in a bowl..
- Melt butter for the dough and let it cool. Put flour in a mixing bowl. Add sugar, vanilla sugar, egg and butter..
- With a hand or table mixer, mix on lowest setting, then at the highest level to crumble..
- Preheat oven at 350°F..
- Roll dough out and put the dough in a cake pan evenly..
- Floor the topping, in a bowl put crème fraîche, greek yogurt, sugar, vanilla pudding powder, and egg yolks. Beat egg whites with salt until stiff and fold into the mixture..
- Add a quarter of the Greek yogurt mixture onto the cake crust. Put pear halves onto it and put the rest of the Greek yogurt mixture on top and smooth it out..
- Mix together the red wine liquid and powdered sugar to make the topping. Sprinkle on top of the Greek yogurt mass..
- Put into the preheated oven for 70 to 75 minutes..
- When done take out of the oven and put it on a wire rack to cool and form..