A raspberry cheese cake is a cheese cake with the delicate flavour of raspberries. This cheese cake is distinguished by its tangy flavour. To prepare a raspberry cheese cake, all we need to do is follow these simple steps.

Ingredients required in a Raspberry Cheese Cake Recipe:

• Two and a half cups of cracker crumbs.
  
• Quarter cup butter (melted).
• Two pounds cream cheese at room temperature.
• One tablespoon of all-purpose flour.
• Two cups of sugar.
• Four eggs.
• Half teaspoon vanilla essence.
• One teaspoons of orange zest.
• One cup raspberries. (Fresh or thawed)
• Three tablespoons sugar.
• One cup sour cream.

How do we go about preparing a Raspberry Cheese Cake?

1. Preheat the oven to about 325 degrees F.
2. Mix the cracker crumbs and butter well.
3. Prepare a nine inch pan for the baking the cake.
4. Beat the cream cheese and sugar together, continue until the mixture is smooth.
5. Add flour, eggs and vanilla to the above mixture.
6. Beat the entire batter for the cheese cake well.
7. Start folding in the orange zest and raspberries, this has to be done gently and carefully.
8. Pour prepared batter into the crust.
9. Bake for about an hour.
10. Cover the cake with foil if it begins to go brown.
11. Remove the raspberry cheese cake from the oven.
12. Leave it to cool for ten minutes.
13. Mix the sour cream and sugar.
14. Pour it on top of the cheesecake.
15. Bake it in the oven again for ten minutes.
16. Garnish it with whipped cream and berries.

Your raspberry cheese cake is ready to serve.

Raspberry Cheese Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• Two cups of cake flour.
• One cup of powdered sugar.
• One cup of cold butter.
• Half a teaspoon baking powder.
• One teaspoon of baking soda.
• Half a teaspoon salt.
• One cup of sour cream.
• Two eggs. (Beaten)
• One packet full of raspberry jelly.
• One cup of softened cream cheese.
• One cup of granulated sugar.
• Half a cup of raspberry jam.

How to make?

• Mix the flour, sugar and cold butter in a bowl until the mixture becomes crumbly in texture.
• Remove half of the above mixture and put it aside.
• To the mixture which remains, add baking powder, soda, salt, sour cream and egg.
• Take a baking tray and grease it at the bottom and from all sides.
• Spread the prepared mixture into this tray.
• The oven must be preheated to 150 degrees C.
• For the filling, mix cream cheese, sugar and egg until all of them are well blended.
• Pour the above mix into the prepared baking tray.
• Spread raspberry jam over the baked cake with a spatula.
• Finally, sprinkle the remainder of the crumbly mixture prepared in the first step.
• Bake this in the preheated oven for about an hour.
• Cool for about an hour after which we must carefully run a knife along the edges to loosen the cheese cake from the pan.
• Make a thick raspberry jelly by mixing jelly powder with 250 ml of hot water.
• Cool the above jelly.
• Cut stripes of the raspberry jelly and align them on the cake as desired.

Your raspberry cheese cake is now ready to serve.

- Shishir Rao