{Recipe} Cream Cheese Pie (2024)

FAQs

What's the difference between cheesecake and cheese pie? ›

What Is the Difference Between Cheesecake and Cheesecake Pie? Today's cheesecake pie is like a regular cheesecake, only (1) the filling layer isn't as thick and tall and (2) you bake it in a pie dish instead of a springform pan.

Cream together condensed milk and cream cheese in a mixing bowl until smooth. Add lemon juice and blend well. Pour cream cheese mixture into graham cracker crust, then top with cherry pie filling. Chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours before serving.

Place sugar, egg, half-and-half, flour, whipping cream, and butter or margarine in blender. Beat until thoroughly combined. Pour into pie shell and sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 70 minutes, until set in center.

Flour as Pie Filling Thickener

Teaspoon for teaspoon, you will need to use about twice as much flour as you would cornstarch or tapioca to achieve the same thickening effects. Adding too much flour to your pie filling will turn it cloudy and pasty, with a distinctly floury taste.

New York cheesecake is heavy on the cream cheese which is why it's so dense and rich. Extra cream cheese isn't the only thing that makes New York cheesecake so special. It also includes extra eggs and egg yolks to provide and smooth consistency.

To be honest, neither cheesecake is better than the other one. They both are great in their own way. It all narrows down to your personal preferences. If you enjoy dense and velvety cake, a baked cheesecake is the one for you.

Add Gelatin or Cornstarch

If your filling is really runny, you can add a little bit of gelatin or cornstarch to thicken it up. Gelatin is great for adding firmness, while cornstarch can thicken the mixture without making it too firm.

Traditional Mongolian Blood Pie Recipe. Known as Khuushuur in Mongolia, these meat pies are traditionally made with horse meat, or with lamb, goat, or beef. To satisfy the “blood” part of the description, I've opted to use blood sausage for half the meat.

Over 4,000 years ago in the fifth century BC, the ancient Greeks on the island of Samos created the earliest known cheesecake.

Some say that scattering small bits of butter over a fruit filling keeps the juices from bubbling over in the same way that adding a bit of fat to simmering jam keeps it from foaming up in the preserving pan. The theory is that the fat disrupts the formation of bubbles on the surface of the viscous fruit mixture.

What is crack pie made of? ›

Crack pie is made of oatmeal cookie crust and an ooey gooey irresistible filling. The crust is crushed up oatmeal cookies mixed with butter and brown sugar. The filling is mostly butter, egg yolk, sugar and cream. The whole thing is baked, chilled and topped with confectioners' sugar.

Very often flour or cornstarch is used, but in certain instances tapioca, arrowroot and potato starch can also help achieve the desired consistency.

All-purpose flour is an easy solution, as you're sure to have it in your pantry. Since it's lower in starch, you'll use more of it than you would higher-starch thickeners. Quick-cooking tapioca makes filling bright and clear, but also gives it a stippled and somewhat sticky texture.

The watery layer between the meringue and the filling (weeping) is usually caused by undercooking. This is where it is important to put your meringue onto hot filling so it can begin cooking right away.

All-purpose flour is an easy substitute for cornstarch; in fact you may see recipes for thickening pie fillings or soups with either. You'll need 2 tablespoons of flour for every 1 tablespoon of cornstarch in a recipe.

One plausible explanation is that a cheesecake is a type of tart. The Oxford Dictionary backs this one up, describing a cheesecake as a "tart filled with curd or cream cheese." While tarts and pies are fairly similar, tarts don't have a pastry lid on top like a pie.

A New York Cheesecake is the larger, richer and more indulgent cousin of the traditional cheesecake. We all know how American's like things bigger and better in the USA and cheesecakes are no exception (not that we're complaining).

Cream cheese is a type of spreadable cheese used to make cheesecake. Cheesecake is a creamy dessert with a biscuit crust, creamy filling made with cream cheese and other ingredients and topped with your favourite topping like compote, nutella or caramel.

Cheesecake is just one of the desserts that falls into the category of having “cake” in the name despite possibly not being a cake at all from a pure definition standpoint. Cheesecake is typically made with a cheese like ricotta, cream cheese, or Neufchatel (a creamy French cheese).