Vancouver Cheesecake
Vancouver cheesecake is a light, baked cheesecake variant that uses no crust. It is typically served chilled with fresh berries and a warmed sauce.
Total Time
5 hours
500 ml cream cheese, softened to room temperature
125 ml ricotta cheese
6 large eggs
250 ml whipping cream
80 ml white sugar
5 ml lemon juice
1 vanilla bean, or 10 ml pure vanilla extract
250 ml fresh, cleaned raspberries
125 ml water
60 ml brown sugar
30 ml rum
Raspberries
Preheat oven to 160°C.
Beat the cream cheese and ricotta together until smooth, continue beating as you mix in the sugar, then the eggs.
Slowly beat in the whipping cream.
Add lemon juice.
To add the bean, using a sharp knife, slice down the length of the bean, peel open and scrape down the bean to collect the contents. Using a spatula or second knife, scrape the contents of the bean into the mixture. Fold in.
Pour into large baking pan, or series of loaf pans.
Bake at 150°C for 45 minutes or so, slightly less time in loaf pans. The cake should still be jelly-like in the centre when done. Remove and allow to cool, then refrigerate for a minimum of 4 hours.
45 minutes
Purée raspberries and strain through cheese cloth into a saucepan.
Place berry mix on burner at medium, add water. Stir occasionally.
When warm, stir in sugar and your rum of choice, and turn burner to high. Increase stirring rate.
After sauce has reached a boil, turn down to a low-medium range and allow to simmer for 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Then remove from burner and allow to cool.
15 minutes
Slice the cheesecake.
Sprinkle with berries and drizzle on sauce.
Serve.
- •Store sauce in an air-tight container in the fridge. Can last for up to 2 weeks, heat before serving.
- •If not planning to serve in 3 days, store cake in a freezer, in an air-tight container which will not pop open. Cake should last 2 weeks if properly stored.
- •To ensure quality cheesecake, be certain the ricotta and cream cheese mix is absolutely smooth prior to continuing on to the next step.
- •Of course, the cake can be served without berries, or sauce, but can also be served with berries other than the raspberries used in the recipe as well as an alternative sauce.
- •This cheesecake can also be served on a crust, as with more traditional recipes; this is, however, contrary to the Vancouver-style of cheesecake.