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Basque-style cheesecake
Crustless San Sebastián cheesecake with a deeply browned top and soft cream-cheese centre.
About Basque-style cheesecake
Basque-style cheesecake is the crustless cheesecake associated with La Viña in San Sebastián. This profile follows the original formula published by the city's official tourism office: cream cheese, eggs, sugar, a little wheat flour and cream.
Cream cheese and cream give the cake a full dairy richness, while eggs create a soft custard-like body. High heat caramelises the sugar at the surface, adding toasted bitterness that balances the sweet filling.
The cake is tall and rustic, with a dark brown, uneven top and no biscuit base. Beneath the caramelised exterior, the pale centre is dense yet yielding and remains notably creamy after cooling.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Egg, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Basque-style cheesecake
La Viña's Original San Sebastián Cheesecake.
- Cream cheeseRich cheese base
- EggsCustard structure
- SugarSweetness and surface caramelisation
- Wheat flourLight binding
- CreamCreamy dairy body
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Cream cheese: . The official formula names cream cheese without a brand or complete commercial formula
- Eggs:
- Sugar:
- Wheat flour: . The official formula names flour; this wheat-flour mapping follows the corroborating classic formula
- Cream: . The official formula names cream without specifying fat content or a commercial product
Origins & food traditions
Donostia-San Sebastián's official tourism office supplies La Viña's complete original cheesecake formula and method and locates the restaurant in the city's Old Part. National Geographic independently corroborates the same five-ingredient cream-cheese, egg, cream, sugar and flour identity, the high-temperature bake and the soft centre.
Cuisines & regions
- Basque Cuisine
- San Sebastián Cuisine
- Spanish Cuisine
- Basque CuisineCatalogue link pending review