Find out how to Make a Cheesecake Water Bathtub (Video)

Whether or not you’re making a traditional cheesecake, or a flavorful variation like lemon cheesecake, amaretto cheesecake, or pecan pie cheesecake, it’s useful to know the what, why, and the way of baking a cheesecake in a water tub. For picture-perfect, tall, and clean cheesecake, you don’t wish to skip this crucial step. Use my video tutorial as a information.

What Is a Cheesecake Water Bathtub?

Baking your cheesecake in a water tub is one of the simplest ways to make sure cheesecake success. Don’t fear—you don’t have to purchase any particular tools or a flowery bathtub-size baking equipment! It merely means putting the springform pan with the unbaked cheesecake in it inside a bigger pan with scorching water in it.

Why Ought to I Bake Cheesecake in a Water Bathtub?

We’re primarily including steam to the baking and cooling steps. Why will we do that? Is it as a result of this can be a high-maintenance dessert that calls for a spa therapy? Properly, really, type of!

Cheesecake loves a damp surroundings, and we wish to give it the most effective likelihood of baking up clean, creamy, tall, and crack-free. Right here’s why:

• Cheesecakes Are Egg-Heavy: Eggs want a moist and humid surroundings to correctly rise and keep away from drying out or burning.
• Stop Cracks within the Floor: The steam from the new water will carry the cheesecake up slowly and evenly, lowering the chance of cracks on the floor. You may learn extra about this on this publish on Find out how to Stop Cracks in Cheesecake.
• Stop Sinking: Beginning the cooling course of within the oven, nonetheless within the water tub, makes for a gradual and even cool-down, which helps stop the cheesecake from sinking again down because it cools. Cheesecakes are usually not followers of sudden temperature modifications. (Chocolate soufflé is… they wish to sink!)

Take a look at the photographs under. As you possibly can see, taking a couple of further minutes to organize a water tub in your cheesecake is properly price it. Have a look at these variations, utilizing the identical precise cheesecake recipe.

I’m going to stroll you thru 2 completely different strategies for baking a cheesecake in a water tub.

1. Find out how to Make a Conventional Water Bathtub

Right here’s what you want:

And right here’s the right way to do it:

1. Tear or lower two items of foil and lay one on prime of the opposite. After you’ve formed your crust inside (and pre-baked the crust, in case your cheesecake recipe requires this step), place the springform pan on the double-layer sheet of foil. Fold up the edges of the foil, tightly wrapping the outside of the cheesecake pan on the underside and up the edges. In the event you pre-baked the crust, be further cautious if the pan remains to be scorching! This foil wrap prevents water from seeping in by way of your springform pan.
2. Boil water. You want sufficient to fill your giant pan with about an inch of water, so I normally boil a full kettle.
3. Place the foil-wrapped springform pan inside your giant roasting pan. Pour and unfold your cheesecake batter into the ready crust. Place the roasting pan on the center or lower-middle rack in your preheated oven. (It’s also possible to pour the boiling water into the roasting pan outdoors of the oven, and thoroughly switch the pan to the oven—simply watch out to not spill or splash!)
4. Working shortly however fastidiously, pour scorching water into the roasting pan, in order that the wrapped springform pan is surrounded by scorching water, about 1 inch deep. I normally fill with water as soon as positioned within the oven to bake as a result of it’s arduous to switch a water-filled roasting pan with a cheesecake inside it into the oven. However, once more, you are able to do it both approach!
5. Rapidly shut the oven door, and bake the cheesecake.

Like I discussed, you possibly can both place the roasting pan (with the cheesecake in it) within the oven now, after which pour within the boiling water, OR you possibly can pour the boiling water within the roasting pan and switch it to the oven. I took this following picture outdoors of the oven simply to point out you this step. In my video under, I do that whereas the pan is IN the oven. Once more, both approach is ok.

2. Alternate Choice

In the event you don’t wish to danger water leaking into your springform pan, I’ve an alternate water tub methodology that works splendidly. You continue to want a big oven-safe pan, however it would go on a backside rack of the oven, under the rack the cheesecake is on.

Right here’s what you want:

And right here’s the right way to do it:

1. Boil water. You want sufficient to fill your giant pan with about an inch of water, so I normally boil a full kettle.
2. Place your cheesecake on the center oven rack.
3. Instantly place the massive oven-safe pan you’re utilizing on the underside oven rack.
4. Pour scorching water into the empty pan on the underside rack, in order that it’s about 1 inch deep.
5. Rapidly shut the oven door, and bake the cheesecake.

This distinctive water tub provides steam to the oven with out having the cheesecake sit contained in the water itself. This methodology may also be used so as to add steam to baking artisan bread, for a crispier crust.

Cooling the Cheesecake within the Water Bathtub

When your cheesecake is completed baking (the perimeters are set however the heart nonetheless jiggles barely should you faucet the pan), don’t take it out of the oven. Flip the oven off and crack open the oven door in order that some steam can escape. Let the cheesecake settle down slowly within the oven with the door barely ajar for at the least an hour, with the water tub (both methodology you used) nonetheless within the oven as properly, so it stays in that humid surroundings whereas it cools steadily.

After about an hour, take away the cheesecake from the oven. Then let it cool utterly on a wire rack, earlier than transferring it to the fridge to sit back, per your recipe directions.

In case your cheesecake remains to be exhibiting a couple of cracks, there’s an answer for that! Whipped cream or a sauce—like salted caramel, strawberry sauce, raspberry sauce, or blueberry sauce—can cowl up even the craggiest cheesecake floor. Or unfold on a layer of chocolate ganache or lemon curd, no matter taste goes greatest together with your cheesecake.

I cowl this pumpkin swirl cheesecake with whipped cream:

Even when your cheesecake doesn’t crack in any respect, toppings are at all times a beautiful crowning glory to your cheesecake masterpiece. So many pleasant choices!

And if all this appears slightly overwhelming, strive a no-bake cheesecake or simple cheesecake pie as a substitute.

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