Perfect Ricotta Cheesecake

4.64 from 72 votes

Ricotta cheesecake is perfectly rich, silky, and delicious! This ricotta cheesecake is lighter than it's American sister, with no crust, and a fluffier texture.

Prep Time15

Cook Time1 15

Additional Time4

Total Time5 30

Course: Desserts

Cuisine: American

Servings: slices

Calories: 465kcal

Author: Eden Westbrook

Equipment

Ingredients

16 oz 480 g whole milk ricotta cheese
16 oz 480 g full-fat cream cheese, softened to room temperature
4 large eggs room temperature
1 ½ cup 300 g granulated sugar
½ cup 114 g unsalted butter, melted and cooled
½ teaspoon kosher salt
2 teaspoon 10 mL vanilla extract
½ lemon zest
2 ½ tablespoon 37 mL lemon juice
3 tablespoon cornstarch
3 tablespoon all purpose flour

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C), moving a rack to the middle of the oven. Mix ricotta and cream cheese with an electric mixer in a large bowl on medium speed until very smooth and uniform, for about one or two minutes. Make sure there are little to no lumps before adding the remaining ingredients.
Add sugar, eggs, vanilla, butter, lemon zest and juice and beat until just fully incorporated. Add the cornstarch and flour afterward until just mixed in; you don’t want to beat the mixture too much.
Grease a 9 inch spring-form pan with shortening or baking spray and triple wrap the outside and bottom with foil. Pour cheesecake batter into the spring-form pan and tap it multiple times onto the counter top from a low height, at least 10 times to remove any bubbles in the cheesecake.
Use a 9×13 Pyrex dish or large roasting pan and fill it with 1 inch of water to create a water bath for your cheesecake to sit in. Place the spring-form pan into the water bath dish and carefully put into your preheated oven on the middle rack.
Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes; afterwards, turn the heat off and crack open the oven door for about another hour. The ricotta cheesecake needs this time to cool slowly, removing it from the oven quickly will deflate it and cause it to crack. Remember: "you want a jiggle, but just a little, in the middle," when it's done.
Refrigerate for at least four hours, preferably overnight, before removing from spring-form pan and serving chilled.
Keep in fridge in airtight container or wrapped with plastic wrap for up to 1 week.

Notes

NOTE: You can add the water to the water bath once you have both pans in the oven, you can put the Pyrex with water into the oven first and place the cake into it, you can do it all on the counter. It’s up to you.

NOTE 2: If she cracks, it's okay; it doesn’t affect the taste. Go get some strawberries, slice up some bananas, frozen strawberries and make a strawberry banana topping with strawberry syrup made from the frozen strawberries. Or use cherry filling, apple filling, or fresh berries as a topping. As long as you cover up whatever you want to cover.

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