Classic Polish cheesecake (Polish-style sernik)

Name: Classic Polish cheesecake (Polish-style sernik)
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Polish
Ingredients: 40 g butter; 90 g digestive biscuits; 15 g ground almonds; 340 g twaróg; 60 g caster sugar; 2 pc eggs; 10 g plain flour; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 60 g sour cream; 1 pc lemon zest

A rich, creamy Polish baked cheesecake made with twaróg (farmers’ cheese) and a sweet crumb base, typically flavoured with vanilla and often finished with a simple topping.

35 min 756 kcal/serving serves 2

756kcal31gprotein65gcarbs42gfat

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🧈butter

🥣digestive biscuits

🥜ground almonds

🥣twaróg

🍬caster sugar

🥚eggs

🌾plain flour

🍶vanilla extract

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About Anna Hurning

Polish home cook and cookbook author behind Polish Your Kitchen.

Anna Hurning is a Polish home cook and cookbook author who grew up on her grandmother Stasia's cooking and first came to the United States as an exchange student in 1993. She started Polish Your Kitchen in 2016 to record her family's recipes, and now writes from Szczecin, Poland, where she returned with her family in 2018. She has published five Polish Your Kitchen cookbooks, including My Family Table and a pair of holiday Books of Memories.

Her cooking sticks to the traditional Polish dishes that immigrant families know, from her grandmother's recipes to regional dishes she researches while travelling through Poland, with an occasional modern take. Expect proper pierogi, hearty soups, and the baking that anchors Polish Easter and Christmas tables.

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