Turtle Cheesecake – Sugar Spun Run

In search of a gourmand cheesecake? Do this turtle cheesecake! It’s layered with caramel, chocolate ganache, and pecans all through. No water bathtub required! Recipe features a how-to video!

A Gourmand Cheesecake Recipe

A detailed cousin to my salted caramel cheesecake, this decadent turtle cheesecake is *the* dessert to make if you’re attempting to impress dinner visitors. It’s attractive, it’s wealthy, and it’s most undoubtedly spectacular.

Why you’ll love my recipe:

• Captures all the weather of basic Turtle candies: pecan infused crust, thick ripple of chocolate and caramel all through, and naturally extra caramel, chocolate, and pecans on high.
• No water bathtub required! Like all of my cheesecake recipes (I’ve greater than 30 now!), this turtle cheesecake is made WITHOUT a water bathtub. Don’t fear although, I embody plenty of suggestions for stopping cracks!
• May be made a couple of days prematurely and likewise freezes properly!
• The right strategy to cap off a night, particularly after having fun with one thing equally gourmand like garlic butter shrimp or beef ragu.

This recipe is a lot enjoyable regardless of being a bit messy and concerned. The tip result’s 100% definitely worth the effort although, and I can’t wait so that you can strive it 🤩

What You Want

Regardless of being an elaborate and gourmand dessert, this turtle cheesecake requires simply 12 components. That’s not too unhealthy, contemplating my turtle cookies require the identical quantity!

• Cream cheese. You should use full-fat, block-style cream cheese for this recipe. Low-fat or spreadable cream cheese will stop your turtle cheesecake from establishing correctly.
• Bitter cream. I really like including bitter cream to my cheesecakes; it provides depth of taste and that signature cheesecake tang.
• Brown sugar. We’ll add gentle brown sugar to the crust (which I all the time do with my graham cracker crust), and we’ll additionally add a bit to the cheesecake itself. This provides a delicate taste that goes SO properly with the caramel and pecans!
• Caramel Sauce. You need to use retailer purchased caramel sauce (normally bought with the ice cream toppings) or use my home made caramel sauce, which is what I favor. You’ll soiled a couple of extra bowls for those who make the caramel from scratch, nevertheless it’s so price it!
• Chocolate. Whilst you may use chocolate chips, I favor to make my chocolate ganache with couverture chocolate or a chopped baking bar. I like to make use of semisweet or darkish chocolate to chop the richness of the caramel; milk chocolate would probably be too candy.

SAM’S TIP: Toast your pecans! It’s simple to do and actually enhances their taste. Want a fast tutorial? Take a look at my submit on toast pecans.

Keep in mind, that is simply an summary of the components I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the submit!

Ideas for Stopping Cracks

Cracks aren’t an excessive amount of of a priority right here, since we will likely be overlaying the highest of our turtle cheesecake; nonetheless, the perfectionist in me (and plenty of of you!) can’t assist however need a clean, crack-free floor. Right here’s obtain that!

• Press the crust excessive up the perimeters of the pan. That is the #1 tip I can provide you! Doing this may enable your crust to shrink with the cheesecake because it cools, which is a quite common cause for cracks.
• Use room temperature components. This can enable your components to mix extra simply and forestall over-mixing.
• Don’t over-mix. Over-mixing could cause your cheesecake to puff up throughout baking, then shrink (and crack) whereas it cools.
• Go simple on the eggs. Mixing the eggs an excessive amount of could cause a curdled, eggy tasting cheesecake that puffs within the oven and sinks in on itself. To stop this, evenly combine every egg earlier than including it, add the eggs one by one, and blend till simply mixed after every addition.
• Cool slowly. Flip off your oven, crack the door, and let the cheesecake stay inside for 1 hour. This can decelerate the cooling course of as a substitute of instantly bringing the recent cheesecake out into the room temperature air.

These are all tips that I take advantage of in each single one in all my cheesecakes and you should utilize them for any cheesecake you bake.

How you can Make Turtle Cheesecake

Chocolate Ripple

1. Microwave the heavy cream and chocolate for 25 seconds, stir, then microwave for one more 25 seconds.
2. Whisk collectively till clean, then put aside to chill.

Crust

1. Stir collectively the graham cracker crumbs, chopped pecans, and brown sugar till mixed, then add the melted butter and stir till every part is moistened.
2. Firmly press the crust combination into the underside and excessive up the perimeters of a 9″ springform pan, then put aside.

Filling

1. Beat the cream cheese and sugars collectively on medium velocity till clean and creamy.
2. Stir within the bitter cream and vanilla on low velocity till mixed.
3. Add the eggs one by one, evenly beating every egg earlier than including and mixing till simply mixed after every addition.
4. Scrape the perimeters and backside of the bowl with a spatula to ensure every part is mixed, then pour ⅓ of the batter in your ready crust.

5. Drizzling half of the caramel sauce over high, then repeat with half of the chocolate ripple.
6. Pour half of the remaining cheesecake batter evenly overtop.
7. Drizzle the remaining caramel and chocolate over that cheesecake layer.
8. Add the final layer of cheesecake batter and clean the highest with a spatula. Place in a 325F (165C) oven and bake for 50-55 minutes.

Cooling & Adorning

9. Let the cheesecake cool to room temperature, then switch to the fridge to sit back for not less than 6 hours.
10. Drizzle caramel sauce and ganache excessive of the cooled cheesecake, then scatter pecans evenly overtop. Let the cheesecake chill within the fridge for quarter-hour earlier than slicing

SAM’S TIP: Run your knife below scorching water, dry it off, after which slice! Do that between every lower and you’ll have attractive cheesecake slices.

Steadily Requested Questions

Need to strive one other gourmand cheesecake? Strive my blueberry cheesecake or peppermint bark cheesecake!

Take pleasure in!

Let’s bake collectively! I’ll be strolling you thru all of the steps in my written recipe and video beneath! In the event you do this recipe, make sure to tag me on Instagram, and you too can discover me on YouTube and Fb

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