Creme Brulee Cheesecake
Creme Brulee Cheesecake — a recipes for dessert recipe, 10 ingredients, about 4 min.
contains dairycontains eggscontains alcohol
Ingredients
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- 3 cups vanilla wafer crumbs
- ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, melted
- 6 tablespoon brown sugar, light or dark
- 6 bricks (3 lb / 1.35 kg) cream cheese, softened
- 6 tablespoons low-fat sour cream
- 1½ cups white granulated sugar
- 6 eggs
- ¾ cup heavy cream
- 4 teaspoons grated orange peel
- ¾ cup white granulated sugar
Make it lactose-friendly
- ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, melted → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
- 6 bricks (3 lb / 1.35 kg) cream cheese, softened → lactose-free cream cheese
- 6 tablespoons low-fat sour cream → lactose-free sour cream or coconut yogurt
- ¾ cup heavy cream → lactose-free heavy cream or full-fat coconut cream
Steps
- Preheat oven to 325°F (160C).
- In a bowl, mix vanilla wafer crumbs, butter and brown sugar until well-blended.
- Press the wafer mixture into the bottom and sides of a 10-inch (25 cm) springform pan.
- Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix cream cheese, sour cream and 1½ cups sugar on medium speed with electric mixer until smooth.
- Add eggs, heavy cream and orange peel. Beat until all the mixture is smooth.
- Pour cream cheese mixture into the springform pan.
- Place the springform pan into a larger pan.
- Add boiling water to the larger pan to come halfway up the sides of the springform pan.
- Bake for 50 minutes or until set.
- Carefully remove the springform pan from the water and cool at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- Refrigerate for 3 hours.
- Remove cake from the springform pan.
- Sprinkle sugar on top of cheesecake.
- Broil under the oven broiler until the sugar melts and browns (be careful not to burn the sugar).
Source
Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0