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Baked Strawberry Cheesecake—Prototype 5:
3-Cheese Blend (1CT-1NC-4YG):
Prepare ahead of time 32 ounces of yogurt cheese, derived from two 32-ounce
containers (that's 64 ounces altogether) of nonfat yogurt. If the resulting
yogurt cheese falls below 32 ounces, add back enough of the whey (that was
strained out from the yogurt) to make up the difference. To this yogurt cheese
combine 8 ounces of whipped, lowfat cottage cheese and 8 ounces of softened
Neufchatel cheese ("light cream cheese").
Crust:
2 ounces of strawberry puree
2 oz. melted, white chocolate
8 oz. (1 cup) 3-cheese blend (see above)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons 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
12 ounces of strawberry puree
1/2 cup arrowroot
5 eggs
Expect close to 8 1/2 cups of the resulting batter, but do not add this to
the pan all at once. Rather, this needs to be done in four installments. Wrap
the pan in foil just before adding the first batter installment (to minimize the
foil's disturbance and therefore its leakage risk, do not put it on any
earlier).
For each of the first three installments, gently scoop about 2 1/3 cups of
batter into the pan, fully covering the surface (here's a tip—scoop small
amounts of batter around the edge of the pan, letting this batter flow towards
the middle on its own), and then bake this pan with its contents for 25 minutes,
at 325 degrees. For these three installments here, bake with the pan in a tub
filled with at least 1/4 to 1/2 inch of boiling water, but (to reduce spillage
risks) do not fill the tub all the way at this point, because the whole
tub-and-pan assembly is going to need to be removed from the oven (in order to
comfortably add contents to the pan) between installments.
After these first three installments are done, there should be about 1 to 1 1/2
cups of batter left, with 75 minutes of baking time reached at this point (25
minutes for each of the first three installments). Now comes the fourth
installment—carefully add the last of this batter on top of the pan's
earlier installments, fully coating the entire surface. Next, return the entire
pan-and-tub assembly to the oven, this time with the temperature reduced to 300
degrees. At this point, fill up the tub generously with boiling water. Resume
baking for another 120 minutes (based upon usage of a 9 1/2" pan).
Afterward, shut the oven off, and leave its door slightly ajar, with the
cheesecake still inside—and in the tub—for an hour. Next, remove the
cheesecake from the oven and tub. Continue to cool it down at room temperature
for another two hours. After doing so, remove the cheesecake from pan and
refrigerate.
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