- 60 g whole milk
- 140 g cream cheese
- 40 g butter
- 50 g flour (Type 550)
- 15 g corn flour
- 5 eggs
- 100g sugar
- Fill a tray with room temperature water until 1 cm high and place it in the oven. We will later place the pan in the tray.
- Preheat oven to 120 C. Top and bottom heat elements without fan. Buy yourself an oven thermometer, since you want to be accurate with those temperatures.
- Prepare three round baking paper cuttings (18 cm).
- Put whole milk, cream cheese and butter in a pan, place it on the stove and heat over a low fire. Mix ingredients until they are melted and combined. Turn off the fire before mixture reaches boiling point.
- Add flour to and corn flour to cream cheese mixture while still hot and mix until everything is well combined and has an even texture.
- Separate 5 eggs and keep both the whites and yolks.
- Add egg yolks to cream cheese flour mixture and mix everything until you have a smooth texture.
- Place egg whites in a mixing bowl and start whisking them. While mixing, add 100 g of sugar in three steps and keep whisking until soft peaks stage.
- Transfer cream cheese mixture to a bigger mixing bowl and add 1/3 of the whisked egg whites to it. Stir slowly in a circular motion. Start from the top and then slowly reach the bottom until everything is well combined. Repeat this step another two times.
- Take a pan (18 cm), place baking paper on bottom and add cream cheese mixture to it.
- Take the pan and tap it carefully on the table, so that you get and even surface and remove unwanted air bubbles.
- Place pan in the oven at 120 C for 20 minutes.
- Without opening the oven door, increase the temperature to 150 C and continue baking for 15 minutes.
- Open the oven door and leave it open for about 10 seconds and then close it again. Lower the temperature to 100 C and continue baking for another 40 minutes.
- Open the oven door and leave it open for about 10 seconds and then close it again. Turn of the oven and let it cool down for 10 minutes.
- Take the pan out of the oven and place it on a table. Loosen the cake from the pan by holding the pan at a slight angle and tapping the lower end of the pan against the table surface.
- Carefully place baking paper on top of the cheese cake and then a cutting board. Flip over pan and cutting board and take away pan.
- Remove baking paper from bottom and replace it with a new one and then flip it over again and place it on a plate.