Lviv Syrnik - Chocolate Glazed Cheesecake
Traditional Ukrainian cheesecake, made out of farmer's cheese and covered with a thin layer of chocolate glaze. Enjoy with a cup of fresh coffee or hot tea.
Servings: 14 slices
Calories: 233kcal
Cost: $7-10
Ingredients
- 600 g Farmer's Cheese (Tvorog) *see blog post
- 90 g Butter soft
- 100 g Sugar
- 15 g Corn Starch
- 4 Eggs
- 30 g Sour Cream full fat
- 60 g Raisins dark
- 1 tbsp Flour to coat raisins
- 1/2 Lemon or Orange zest only
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Chocolate Glaze
- 75 g Chocolate dark or milk, good quality
- 45 g Butter
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 F. Grease a loaf pan with butter and line the bottom with parchment paper.
- Soak raisins in hot water, rum or orange juice for 10-15 minutes. Drain the liquid and dry raisins with a paper towel. Coat in flour.
- Press farmer's cheese through a mesh strainer or blend with a hand blender. Add sugar, corn starch and lemon zest. Gently mix.
- Add in the soft butter and combine. Add the eggs, one at a time. Mix well between each addition. And finally, add sour cream, vanilla and raisins. Mix just until combined.
- Bake at 350 F for 40-50 minutes. Let come to room temperature inside the turned off oven. Transfer to the fridge for 1-2 hours. Take out of the loaf pan and flip upside down on a serving tray.
- For the glaze, melt chocolate with butter until smooth. Let cool to room temperature. Spread evenly over the cheesecake.
- Optional: let fully set in the fridge for at least 4 hours. Enjoy!
Notes
All nutrition information is just an estimate and will depend you the actual ingredients you use.
What you might need:
Ingredients I recommend:
- farmer's cheese
- chocolate (milk or dark)