{"id":2556,"date":"2011-01-20T15:13:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T22:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T22:13:24","slug":"ricotta-amaretto-cheesecake-and-a-warm-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2011\/01\/20\/ricotta-amaretto-cheesecake-and-a-warm-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricotta Amaretto Cheesecake and a Warm Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2011 art of living.PrimaMedia,Inc\/Maria Liberati<br \/>\nWhen it is cold outside, it&#8217;s time to enjoy the inner warmth of your home..sitting by the fireplace..or by the light of a beaming candle and rediscover the simple things you have right there..reading that novel you have been wanting to finish, write..if nothing creative comes to mind..keep a daily journal or diary, or sit and enjoy a hot cup of tea..simple but all beautiful things to be savored in the warmth of your own home&#8230;oh I guess it is&nbsp;the beautiful&nbsp; simplicity of a country house here in the mountains of Italy that has taught me the beauty of simplicity..<br \/>\nA piece of cheesecake makes a perfect accompaniment to that hot cup of tea&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cheesecake.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2557\" title=\"cheesecake\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cheesecake-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ricotta Amaretto Cheesecake<\/strong><br \/>\n*4 eggs<br \/>\n* 10 ounces of crushed amaretti cookies<br \/>\n*7 graham crackers crushed<br \/>\n*8 ounces cream cheese<br \/>\n*1 cup ricotta cheese<br \/>\n1 cup whipping cream<br \/>\n*3\/4 cup sugar<br \/>\n*1\/2 cup unsalted butter<br \/>\n*1 tsp vanilla<br \/>\nLet cream cheese sit a t room temperature for 20 minutes. Crush amaretti and graham crakers. Melt butter in pan. add in crushed cookies to butter. Blend until a smooth paste. Cover 8 inch cake pan with parchment paper. Butter the paper and arrange crumb mixture on botom and sides of pan as crust. Set aside<br \/>\nIn a bowl blend cream cheese ,ricotta, sugar and vanilla, until well blended. Separate the eggs. Place egg yolks cream &nbsp;into cream cheese mixture, blend in by hand with spatula.&nbsp; In a separate bowl whip egg whites till peaks form,then blend into cheese mixture. When unifrmly blended, place int ocrust and let cook in preheated oven at 375 degrees for 1 hour. remove from oven and let cool for approximately 4 hours. Serve with a glass of Prosecco<br \/>\nFor more great recipes, get your copy of the award winning book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/products-page\/bookstore\/the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking-holidays-special-occasions-second-edition\/\">The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays &amp; Special Occasions-2nd edition<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/coversmaller2_thumb.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2324\" title=\"coversmaller2_thumb.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/coversmaller2_thumb-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2011 art of living.PrimaMedia,Inc\/Maria Liberati When it is cold outside, it&#8217;s time to enjoy the inner warmth of your home..sitting by the fireplace..or by the light of a beaming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,47,11],"tags":[69,1105,975,1033,207,512,1092,1035,1023,102,1279,1280],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caro-diariodear-diary","category-la-dolce-vita-dessert-recipes","category-recipes","tag-abruzzo","tag-award-winning-author-maria-liberati","tag-celebrity-chef-maria-liberati","tag-country-house","tag-cream-cheese","tag-desserts","tag-easy-dessert-recipes","tag-farmhouse-cookbook","tag-gourmet-cookbook","tag-italy","tag-mountains-of-italy","tag-ricotta-cheesecake"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}