Reference photographA slow morning
Vanilla brioche
A golden loaf, a tender crumb, and whole-pod vanilla folded into the dough. Make time for the rise.
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Recipe 04 · The café favourite
Vanilla Basque cheesecake
A deeply caramelised top, a creamy set centre and whole-pod vanilla. No biscuit base, just a small handful of ingredients.
Recipe draft · Kitchen validation pending
- Prep
- 20 min
- Heat / bake
- 50–60 min
- Rest / chill
- About 1 h cooling + at least 6 h chilling
- Total, approximate
- About 8 h 20 min
Step by step
The method
- 01
Line the tin
Heat a conventional oven to 220°C (200°C fan). Line the base and sides of a 20 cm springform tin with two overlapping sheets of baking parchment, extending about 5 cm above the rim. Place the tin on a baking tray.
- 02
Mix the cheese and vanilla
Split the vanilla pod and scrape the seeds. Beat the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla seeds and salt until smooth. Keep the speed low to avoid incorporating too much air.
Seeds and the split pod · Ingredient reference photograph.
How to split, scrape and use the pod ↗ - 03
Add the eggs and cream
Add the weighed beaten egg gradually, mixing between additions. Stir in the cream. Sift over the flour and mix only until smooth. Scrape the base and sides of the bowl.
- 04
Bake until deeply coloured
Pour into the lined tin and bake for about 50–60 minutes, until the top is deeply browned and the centre is set but still trembles gently. Check the centre with a food thermometer: it should reach at least 74°C. If the top colours too early, cover loosely with foil while the centre finishes.
- 05
Cool and chill
Cool in the tin for about 1 hour, then refrigerate promptly and within 2 hours of baking. Chill for at least 6 hours, preferably overnight. Remove from the tin and peel back the parchment before slicing; keep refrigerated until serving.
Before you ask
Is this a molten-centre cheesecake?
No. This draft uses a fully cooked, chilled, creamy centre. Check the centre temperature and set before cooling.
How should I double the recipe?
Use the 2× ingredient setting and two 20 cm tins. Keep each cake the same size and check the centre of each separately; a larger single tin needs its own baking trial.
For your next batch
Make the recipe.
Then choose the input.
For café portions, standardise the tin diameter, fill weight and cooling process. Evaluate the vanilla after chilling, at the temperature at which you plan to serve.
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Dish photographs show the style of food, not tested TSARA recipe results. Our whole-pod and scraped-seed ingredient photographs come from the TSARA collection. Recipes await kitchen validation.
- Brioche Nanterre (mars 2021) — Benoît Prieur / Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC0. Resized for the web; card framing may crop the displayed image.
- 00 Ganaché de chocolate — Luisa Contreras / Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0. Resized for the web; card framing may crop the displayed image.
- San Sebastian Cheesecake — Stolbovsky / Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized for the web; card framing may crop the displayed image.
- Iced green tea latte — Saya1611 / Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC0. Resized for the web; card framing may crop the displayed image.
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