A delicious ricotta cheesecake recipe for your table.
Have you ever had Ricotta Cheesecake?
I have been craving cheesecake, and while I do love the sweet creamy texture of a New York style cheesecake, every now and then its gotta be a ricotta cheesecake! I never really know what I’m going to make for the week until I look into the fridge and pantry to see what I have. Now don’t get me wrong, I do have a plan from time to time, but most of what I make is based purely on urges…lol….. I guess that is a guy thing!
I love a store with a good produce section when you walk in. And for some reason the berries are all at the front, I guess since there more perishable they want that impulse buying to start right there.
I’m usually not drawn to blackberries, I’m more of a blueberry or strawberry guy, but for some reason, they were calling out to me. I also found a bag of huge Persian limes….I do love limes!
When I got home, as I started putting everything away I noticed that I still had some ricotta and mascarpone, and I think that’s when I started thinking about putting everything together….it was fate….sigh……how could I not bake a delicious ricotta cheesecake when fate had brought all the ingredients together for me! Really, I had no choice!
So fate or not I made a delicious ricotta cheesecake, with just enough mascarpone in it to make it creamy, not quite Philly but none the less creamy and delicious!
If you love cheesecake as much as I do, you might also like these delicious recipes:
Ricotta Cheesecake with Blackberries
Ingredients
Crust for Cheesecake
- 12 Digestive Biscuits or one pack of Graham Crackers
- 6 tbs of Unsalted Butter melted
Ricotta Cream
- 16 oz Ricotta Cheese
- 16 oz Mascarpone
- 8 oz Greek Yogurt or Sour Cream
- 1 cup Sugar
- 6 large Eggs
- 2 Tablespoons Flour
- grated peel of one Lime
- Juice from one Half Lime
- 1 Tablespoon Pure Vanilla
- 1 Teaspoon Salt
- 1 pint blackberries
- 2 tbsp blackberry jam or strawberry
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
Crust
- In a food processor, process the digestive biscuits to a fine meal.
- Melt the Butter
- add the butter to the digestive biscuits.
- The mixture should be wet enough to form, but not so wet that it oozes butter.
- Form crust into your springform pan and bake at 375 degrees for about 7 minutes.
- Let cool.
Ricotta Cream
- In your mixer blend together the Ricotta Cheese, Mascarpone, and Greek yogurt blend until smooth.
- Add eggs one at a time until well blended.
- Add sugar, flour, salt, grated lime peel, lime juice, and vanilla.
- Blend well until very creamy.
- Pour Mixture into prepared Springform pan and Bake at 375 degrees for 50-60 minutes in a conventional oven or until the cake has set in the middle. *
- Allow to cool for at least 6 hours or overnight.
Assembly
- Heat jam in saute pan till it begins to get more liquid*
- use a brush or spoon to spread melted jam on top of cheesecake
- Begin setting blackberries, bottom down in a circle (leave a small border for whip cream) then begin inside that circle and repeat until the top of the cake is covered with blackberries
- Whip cream with sugar and vanilla until stiff
- Place cream in a pastry bag, and decorate outside of the blackberries
Notes
*using the jam will help keep the berries in place
Jade @ Maids
berries berries berries.. weeee awesome cake! its perfect for my cakes craving look so good! yummy tummy!..
Maureen
Wowza! This looks so good. I haven’t had a good New York cheesecake in a long time, nor have I had blackberries. I’ll need to do something about that.
EA-The Spicy RD
Such a beautiful cheesecake! I’ve never made one with ricotta and marscapone, but this is going on my “must make” list. I’ll make the crust with my gluten-free graham cracker recipe. Fabulous!
Jen
Who can argue with fate!?
Dionne Baldwin
When I saw the photo of the single slice from the side I could almost smell the crust and taste the sweet buttery flavor with the cheesecake and juicy blackberries on top! I imagine ricotta cheesecake to be rich and smooth with a similar texture to a cheesecake with a slightly more complex flavor. In a good way. 🙂
I cook on urges too my friend. I don’t do as well if it’s planned I have to be able to let things fly all over. Like a tamer version of “chopped”!
Marsha @ The Harried Cook
That cake is a work of art! Just beautiful… Thanks for sharing this gorgeous cake with us… I wish I could do more than just look at it! I want a slice!
Amalia
Ricotta cheesecake is something I definitely need to try! The blackberries are gorgeous on top, I love the way everything came together to create such a beautiful cheesecake! 🙂
Cucina49
Those are some lovely blackberries–and you made a cake worthy of them!
Megan @ Pip and Ebby
I love it when everything falls together and the perfect recipe is created! I think I’ve told you this before, but I’ve never attempted a ricotta cheesecake before. It’s on my must-do list! This one looks fabulous! That crust! Yum! And those blackberries!!
Betty Ann @Mango_Queen
Wow! The photos of this ricotta cheesecake look gorgeous and I bet this tastes awesome,too! I must try making this. Thanks for the recipe, Chef Dennis!
Meghan
Beautiful cheesecake, Dennis! I love using mascarpone in cheesecake & the blackberries are such a great pop of flavor. That last shot is divine!
anna
i think my favorite part of this is that incredible looking crust! wow! so thick and mm i’m sure so good. yum!
Kim - Liv Life
I tried my first ricotta cheesecake a few months ago and I adored it! Well.. I haven’t really met a cheesecake I didn’t like, but I really, really liked the ricotta. Gorgeous photos Dennis!! Really beautiful. And it has spring written all over it with those berries!! I’m ready!
Stephanie @ Eat. Drink. Love.
This cheesecake looks incredible, Chef! I am really loving that thick crust and all of those delicious berries! Perfection!
Patsy
Chef…this looks delicious! My husband loves blackberries, so I am always looking for new ways to use them. I am following your blog. Patsy
Lauralovescakes
This looks great… I love cheesecake and I love blackberries! 🙂
Tickled Red
Love this recipe Dennis. Blackberries and cheesecake are such good buddies 😀 Delicious!
elena-sweetlife
I’m loving your cheesecake and I’m going to try it. Thanks for the recipe!
Kiri W.
Having grown up in Europe, I adore ricotta based cheesecake. Yours looks wonderful with the blackberries!
Cassie
This looks amazing, Dennis! I love blackberries!
Kathleen Hart
Dennis,
You’re making my mouth water…cannot wait to make this delicious cheesecake!
RavieNomNoms
Oh this is just so yummy! I love cheesecake. Has to be one of the many things of the world that is just hard to explain how delicious it is! Yours looks amazing Chef!
The Mom Chef ~ Taking on Magazines One Recipe at a Time
I can totally see why you picked up those berries. They’re gorgeous. And you know I’m all over that cheesecake, especially since there isn’t a smidge of chocolate to be found. It looks amazing.
Mary
This is one of the best looking cheesecakes I’ve ever seen. Gorgeous photo!
Kostka Brukowa
Wow, that looks so yummy! 🙂
Sofie Dittmann @thegermanfoodie
Yeah, you said “ricotta” in the header, but then I discovered that this also has MASCARPONE in it… OMG! I sounds/looks totally delicious!
anne
That’s one good looking cheesecake , Chef Dennis !! If only ricotta and mascarpone’s cheaper here tsk tsk 😛 I’ve been baking cheesecake weekly as there are loads of peeps here celebrating their bdays ! 😀
Tina@flourtrader
Every layer is so thick, which guarantees that every element is evident in one delicious bite of this. I am so on a blackberry kick right now, so I am happy to see this. Awesome dessert and tempting photo-yum!
Lynne @ MyGourmetConnection
The combination of mascarpone and ricotta, plus the Greek yogurt must be fabulously creamy – nice change from the classic cream cheese. Thanks!
Cher
At my grandmother’s farm, there was a very long hedge of blackberry bushes next to the cow pasture. I spent quite a few summers trudging up and down those hedges 🙂
This is very lovely.
Chris and Amy
Now that is a beautiful cheesecake. Mouth-watering!
Sandra
Your cheesecake is picture perfect and I’d love to make this. It looks delicious!
Rosemary
This looks great!
Liz
Stunning, Dennis! We were both on the same track today…but I’m thinking I’d love mine topped with blackberries…mmmmmm…
Emily @ Life on Food
Those blackberries are gorgeous and I love the thick crust. I plan really well for the week but normally by the time Thursday rolls around everything is all switched up.
Elin
I can see how much you both love it…I also know that I am drooling just looking at that slice with those fresh blackberries on those layers of flavor…..slurp ! Thank you so much for tempting me :p Have a nice day Chef !
mangiabella
when I was a little girl, i would pick blackberries from the bushes on my way walking to school. This memory brings me back to a time and place with all kinds of feelings and emotions that are hard to put into words….every time I eat blackberries I think of them. Your cheesecake looks wonderful, and I’m once again thinking of those memories. The ricotta, the marscapone, the lime, the greek yogurt…layers of flavor! Thanks for sharing this sweet friend.
Sharyn Dimmick
I want some of this. Sigh. Blackberries will not be around until at least August, at which time we will have a lot. I wouldn’t want to put frozen ones on your beautiful cheesecake — they would go to slush anyway. Oh well, I can dream and wait for summer.
Anita at Hungry Couple
Oh, this looks heavenly. I love ricotta cheesecake or any cheesecake, for that matter 🙂 And it goes so well with berries. Yum!
Medeja
What a great combination of flavors! And what a lovely decoration! Amazing cake!
Toni @ Boulder Locavore
This sounds phenomenal. Would never think to make cheesecake with ricotta and marscapone and I’m sure the flavor is much more punched up and mouth watering. Beautiful Dennis.
Kath
That is such a beautiful cheesecake, Dennis! Well done!
Brian
Do you know how much I adore cheesecake? I mean, I’m kinda obsessed with it.
This looks so wonderful and I am sure the blackberries on top are delightful!
Maggie @ A Bitchin' Kitchen
This looks awesome! Cheesecake with berries is my absolute favorite!