I have been to Madrid for a few days and had the opportunity to try different restaurants serving tarta de queso. What can I say…simply the best cheesecake I’ve ever had, much better than any other cheesecake like New York Cheesecake or Japanese Cheesecake. What I really appreciated was the combination of a firm, slightly harder outside and a creamy, melting inside, it was just so, so, so good. In particular, I loved the one from Alex Cordobes’s shop and another I had at a restaurant in the Salamanca district, La Bien Aparecida.
I would like to know if these kinds of cheesecake are typical of Madrid or if they come from somewhere else (for example, I didn’t try the Basque cheesecake, maybe it’s very similar to the ones I had). I’m also very interested to know what kind of cheese is used in these cakes.
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Posted by cammello1234
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It’s very easy to make. They are popular all over Spain. There is no such thing as “Basque cheesecake”, it’s just cheesecake for all Spanish people.
I prefer it without biscuit at the bottom.
I think Spain has more of a thing for toasted caramel than other places, it’s even in torrefacto coffee. And brown sugar flavors in general because of the connection with sugar cane producers in Latin America. Other places have egg and butter carry their dishes more.