Homemade cheese for cream cheese made from cream and sour cream

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 2 day

1. STEP 1

   

   Prepare all ingredients ahead of time so they are at room temperature.

2. STEP 2

   

   Mix cream and sour cream. You need to immediately take the dishes with which you can organize a steam bath.

3. STEP 3

   

   Add milk little by little and stir until smooth.

4. STEP 4

   

   Of course, you can immediately pour everything into a saucepan and mix, but this may leave lumps, and we need a perfectly homogeneous mixture.

5. STEP 5

   

   Place the mixture in a draft-free place that is warm but not hot. I place it in the corner on a wooden board and cover it with a towel. It is important that the mixture is not shaken, so keep it away from children.

6. STEP 6

   

   We need this result. In 4-7 hours the mixture will become slightly jelly-like and slightly hard. I moved it slightly so that I could see how it was cracking at the edge.

7. STEP 7

   

   Build a steam bath. I put a wire rack in the pan, pour water below the level of the wire rack, and place a saucepan with the future cream cheese on the wire rack.

8. STEP 8

   

   Heat in a sauna until the whey begins to separate. You can make several cuts with a knife to the full depth, but do not interfere. If you move the saucepan a little, we see that pieces of the mass begin to float in the whey. At this point, remove from the bath, wrap and leave for 8-10 hours.

9. STEP 9

   

   When time has passed, you get almost ready-made cream cheese.

10. STEP 10

    

    Place it on a thick cloth and hang it over the bowl.

11. STEP 11

    

    When the serum stops dripping, remove it. It takes me 3-4 hours.

12. STEP 12

    

    It turns out 400-550 ml of whey and 400-500 g of cream cheese. The yield depends on the fat content and quality of the starting products. This is cream cheese after light stirring. In the refrigerator it hardens and becomes thick.

13. STEP 13

    

    And the cream for cakes or cupcakes turns out so wonderful. You just need to mix it with powdered sugar.

Comments on the recipe

Irisha

23.10.2023

5

Wonderful cheese!! I love it very much and cook it at least once a week, it turns out very tasty, today I’m baking chocolate cheesecake from it :) only I make it with slightly different proportions - for 1 liter of milk, 400 ml of cream and 200 g of sour cream) By the way, I tried to cook with homemade milk - I personally didn’t really like it, the cheese turns out with an oily taste and plus, due to the high fat content of the milk, a yellow crust forms on top and as a result the buttercream turns out with ugly red inclusions, so I don’t use homemade milk for this anymore) And I heat the cheese immediately on on the stove, it also turns out very well, I just set the heat to the lowest setting :)

Alexa

23.10.2023

4.8

Mmmmm, delicious! I'll definitely cook it! And then I only had one like this in KK

Ira

23.10.2023

4.6

Ksyusha Rado-Lyubo, this is a real cheese production! The process is certainly labor-intensive and time-consuming, but it’s worth it! It turned out great cheese! But for cakes, you probably need to add more sugar? Thank you very much for the recipe!

taksibluz

23.10.2023

4.7

Thank you so much for the recipe!

Oksana

23.10.2023

4.9

What fat content is the cream?

Niyara

23.10.2023

4.7

Please tell me how long this cheese can be stored?