White Chocolate Cheesecake
White Chocolate Cheesecake — a cheesecake recipe, 13 ingredients, about 47 min.
contains glutencontains dairycontains eggscontains nutscontains alcohol
Ingredients
US
Metric
- 1¼ cups shortbread crumbs
- ¼ cup ground almonds
- 2 tablespoons white granulated sugar
- ⅛ teaspoon almond extract
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 175 grams chopped white chocolate
- 1.5 kilograms soft cream cheese
- 250 grams soft light cream cheese
- 5 large eggs, at room temperature
- ¾ cup white granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
Make it lactose-friendly
- 3 tablespoons melted butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
- 1.5 kilograms soft cream cheese → lactose-free cream cheese
- 250 grams soft light cream cheese → lactose-free cream cheese
Steps
- Mix ingredients for the crust (shortbread crumbs, ground almonds, sugar, almond extract, and melted butter) and press into the bottom of a springform pan.
- Bake at 200°C degrees for 5–6 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool.
- When cool, grease the sides of the pan lightly.
- Melt and cool the chocolate.
- Mix together cream cheeses, then add eggs, one at a time.
- Mix in sugar, flour, vanilla, and almond extract.
- Stir 240 ml of mixture into the chocolate, then mix all.
- Pour into the pan and bake at 160°C for 40 minutes.
Source
Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0