Not technically but, like, it’s definitely a lot of cream cheese. Grabbing the first cheesecake recipe that came up when I searched, the non-crust ingredients are listed as:
▢ 32 oz cream cheese², softened to room temperature (910g)
▢ 1 cup sugar, (200g)
▢ ⅔ cups sour cream, (160g)
▢ 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
▢ ⅛ teaspoon salt
▢ 4 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beaten
So that’s 60% cream cheese. By contrast, the cream cheese is only 17% of the called-for ingredients of this recipe (seeing as it calls for double of what-the-cream-cheese-amount-is in cottage cheese, I was curious what percentage is both the cottage cheese and cream cheese and that’s still just 51%; so less than the cream cheese of the cheese cake, still. I was curious what percentage we got to if we included the heavy cream to target the largest amounts of dairy it calls for (though somewhat unfair as the 60% in the cheese cake is just the cream cheese and leaves out the sour cream (it jumps to 70%, with the sour cream included, in case you were curious)) and we do get up 68% of the ingredients, with that included. But, you know, that’s cream cheese, cottage cheese, and heavy cream and not just cream cheese).
I’m guessing not. I’ve never made one but is it really just a pie-sized cream cheese monolith?
Not technically but, like, it’s definitely a lot of cream cheese. Grabbing the first cheesecake recipe that came up when I searched, the non-crust ingredients are listed as:
▢ 32 oz cream cheese², softened to room temperature (910g) ▢ 1 cup sugar, (200g) ▢ ⅔ cups sour cream, (160g) ▢ 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract ▢ ⅛ teaspoon salt ▢ 4 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beatenSo that’s 60% cream cheese. By contrast, the cream cheese is only 17% of the called-for ingredients of this recipe (seeing as it calls for double of what-the-cream-cheese-amount-is in cottage cheese, I was curious what percentage is both the cottage cheese and cream cheese and that’s still just 51%; so less than the cream cheese of the cheese cake, still. I was curious what percentage we got to if we included the heavy cream to target the largest amounts of dairy it calls for (though somewhat unfair as the 60% in the cheese cake is just the cream cheese and leaves out the sour cream (it jumps to 70%, with the sour cream included, in case you were curious)) and we do get up 68% of the ingredients, with that included. But, you know, that’s cream cheese, cottage cheese, and heavy cream and not just cream cheese).
Always good to know proportions. About a 5/8 monolith perhaps.