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Baked Almond Cheesecake—Prototype 1:
3-Cheese Blend (3CT-1NC-2YG):
Prepare ahead of time 16 ounces of yogurt cheese, derived from one 32-ounce
container of nonfat yogurt. If the resulting yogurt cheese falls below 16
ounces, add back enough of the whey (that was strained out from the yogurt) to
make up the difference. To this yogurt cheese combine 24 ounces of whipped,
lowfat cottage cheese and 8 ounces of softened Neufchatel cheese ("light
cream cheese").
Grease a 9 1/2" (or 9") springform pan, but do not wrap foil around
it yet (see below).
Crust:
2 oz. melted, white chocolate
8 oz. (1 cup) 3-cheese blend (see above)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 oz. All-Bran, ground up
Place the resulting mixture in the greased pan and pre-bake without tub at 300
degrees for 5-10 minutes, depending on the mixture's thickness (closer to 10
minutes if thin enough to be fully distributed across the pan's bottom by gentle
shaking, closer to 5 minutes if thick enough to require spreading out this
mixture by pressing on it with a utensil and/or fingers), then cool enough to
comfortably touch at least the pan's upper sidewall.
Batter:
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
40 oz. (5 cups) 3-cheese blend (see above)
2 teaspoons vanilla
7 oz. almond paste
1 1/2 teaspoons xanthan gum
6 eggs
Wrap the pan in foil just before adding the batter (to minimize the foil's
disturbance and therefore its leakage risk, do not put it on any earlier).
Next, pour the batter over the crust and bake this cheesecake in a hot water tub
at 300 degrees for 90 minutes (if using a 9 1/2" pan). Then cool the
cheesecake down while still in oven (with this oven shut off) and in tub with
door slightly ajar for an hour. Afterwards, remove from oven and tub and
continue to cool down at room temperature for another 120 minutes, then remove
from pan and refrigerate.
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