Showing posts with label cheesecake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheesecake. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Apple Pie Cheesecake 12 Weeks of Holiday Treats
Apple Pie Cheesecake 12 Weeks of Holiday Treats
12 weeks until Christmas friends. Yup, I am NOT kidding. But not to worry because I have your back. Help is right here for all your baking, treat making, homemade gift ideas needs. For the next 3 months, one a week you will be handed a variety of amazing and totally delicious recipes and ideas to help you figure out the best of the best for holiday treats. Yours truly along with a spectacular group of many talented food bloggers will provide you with a plethora of such resources once a week for the next 12 weeks. So sit back, relax and be ready to drool. :-)
Speaking of drooling happiness how about a fabulous cheesecake recipe? You know the kind with apples, cinnamon and sugary goodness all on top? Ahhh yes, an Apple Pie Cheesecake. Heaven in a springform pan. HEAVEN.
What could be better than a cookie crust that surrounds a silky cheesecake filling and then topped off with slices of cinnamon sugary dusted apples? The perfect dessert for a special holiday party or even given as a gift to a special friend. This cheesecake could easily be made for Thanksgiving, Christmas or even New Years. A delicious dessert that is easy to make and makes everyone fall over backwards for seconds.
The crust is easily adaptable to your preference. If you dont wish to use the crust recipe I have to share you can make a graham cracker or even a ginger cookie crust. Apples go well with a variety of flavors. I jazzed up the apple layer of the cheesecake by drizzling it with a lovely homemade caramel sauce.
Apple Pie Cheesecake
(recipe discovered from Dinner with Julie)
Crust Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg yolk (reserve egg white for later)
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
Filling ingredients:
2 8oz. packages of cream cheese, at room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
Apple topping ingredients:
2 large apples (I used Cortland) - peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
Directions:
1. Butter or grease 9" springform pan and set aside.
2. Prepare crust by combining all crust ingredients in a medium bowl. Mix well all together with a fork or pastry cutter. Ingredients will be appear as big soft crumbs. Press mixture into prepared springform pan on bottom and up sides.
3. Prepare filling by beating cream cheese and sugar together until smooth and lump-free. Add in eggs, one at a time and then reserved egg white and vanilla extract. Pour filling into prepared crust. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
4. Prepare apple topping by combining sliced apples, sugar and cinnamon - toss gently so that sugar and cinnamon coat apples. Arrange sugary-cinnamon apple slices over cheesecake filling to cover completely.
5. Bake cheesecake for 12 minutes at 400 degrees F. and then reduce to 375 to continue baking for another 30-35 minutes. Cheesecake will be puffed and lightly browned but slightly jiggly in center when done. Turn off oven and open door slightly to allow cheesecake to cool for a good 45-60 minutes. Then take out of oven and cool further to room temperature. Refrigerate over night before serving.
Serve with a lovely drizzling of your favorite caramel sauce or freshly whipped cream. A delight of a dessert! Enjoy!
Happy Apple Pie Cheesecake Baking!
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Thursday, February 9, 2017
Baileys Chocolate Cheesecake Trifles
Baileys Chocolate Cheesecake Trifles
This is my last blogpost before the Christmas holidays. My blog will be taking a short break and normal services will resume towards the end of January. Baileys and Christmas are synonymous and it just isnt Christmas without Baileys! These Baileys chocolate cheesecake trifles are really quick and easy to make and are guaranteed to be a hit at your Christmas parties. You can make them in a large dish to be served family style or serve them in small individual dishes. We had them at our Christmas drinks with our neighbours and everyone thoroughly enjoyed them. Its full of Baileys and has a lovely creamy richness from the cream cheese and whipped cream. The Oreos add a lovely crunch and chocolatey boost.
Im sending this to We Should Cocoa guest hosted this month by Munchies & Munchkins on behalf of Choclette from Tin and Thyme. The theme this month is Christmas and as mentioned earlier, Baileys and chocolate pretty much equal Christmas to me!
Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year! See you all back in Jan 2016 when I will be hosting AlphaBakes.
cream cheese, cocoa powder, Baileys, whipping cream and oreo cookies 
Oreo cookie base 
Cheesecake layer 
whipped cream layer 
Recipe from Life, Love and Sugar
For the cheesecake layer
450g cream cheese
55g caster sugar
30g cocoa powder
4-6 tablespoons Baileys
For the whipped cream layer
250mls whipping cream
2-3 tablespoons Baileys
1.5 tablespoon cocoa powder
3 tablespoon icing sugar
Base and topping
15 Oreo cookies, crushed
- Beat the cream cheese, sugar and cocoa powder until smooth.
- Add in Baileys and set aside.
- In a separate bowl, whip the cream until it starts to thicken then add in the Baileys, cocoa powder and icing sugar and whisk until stiff peak forms.
- Assemble the trifles by putting a layer of cookie crumbs at the bottom of each dish. Reserve a few tablespoons for the topping.
- Pipe or spoon the cheesecake layer on top of the cookie crumbs followed by the whipped cream layer.
- Repeat with a further layer of cheesecake filling followed by the whipped cream filling.
- Sprinkle the remaining cookie crumbs on top.
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