White Chocolate Cheesecake with Strawberry Swirl
ingredients
- Sauce
- 10 oz fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered
- 3 T sugar
- 2 T strawberry preserves
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 2 T water
- 2 t cornstarch
- Crust
- 7 chocolate wafer cookies, crumbled
- 3 graham crackers, crumbled
- 2 T sugar
- pinch salt
- 3 T butter, melted
- Cheesecake
- 8 oz. white chocolate chopped
- 3 pkgs. (8oz. each), cream cheese, room temperature
- 3/4 C sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 t. vanilla extract
- juice 1/2 lemon
- 1/4 C cold strawberry sauce
directions
- 1
Process berries, sugar, preserves and lemon juice in food processor until smooth. Transfer to saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat.
- 2
Combine water and cornstarch in a small bowl until smooth, whisk into berry mixture. Simmer to thicken slightly, cover and chill until cold.
- 3
Preheat oven to 300°. Coat a 9-inch springform pan with nonstick spray.
- 4
Process cookies, crackers, sugar and salt for crust in food processor until fine.
- 5
Add butter as machine is running. Pat crumbs on bottom and sides of pan.
- 6
Melt white chocolate and set aside.
- 7
Blend cream cheese and sugar until smooth, using a mixer and scraping the sides of bowl.
- 8
Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition. Blend in melted chocolate, vanilla and lemon juice. Pour batter into prepared pan, then drizzle with 1/4 C strawberry sauce.
- 9
Swirl sauce into batter to create a marbled pattern. Place pan on baking sheet and bake until edges are set and puffed, but center is still jiggly, 60-80 minutes. Do not over bake. Turn off oven, crack oven door open and cool cake inside for 1 hour. Remove from oven and cool completely. Chill overnight and serve with remaining strawberry sauce.
Source: joan


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