Creme Brulee Cheesecakes Recipes

CRèME BRûLéE CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Make Crust: Preheat oven to 350°F. In a bowl, stir together graham cracker crumbs, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and salt. Add butter and stir until dry ingredients are equally hydrated. Spray a 10-inch springform pan with cooking spray, and evenly press the graham cracker crumb mixture into the bottom of the pan.
• Make Filling: In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat cream cheese on medium-high until fluffy and satiny. Add sour cream and beat to incorporate. Scrape down sides of bowl, add sugar, and beat on low until just incorporated, then beat on medium-high for 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, waiting until each is fully incorporated before adding the next. Once last egg is added, beat on medium-high for 2 minutes. Add flour and mix for 1 minute. Scrape down sides of bowl and add lemon juice and vanilla bean paste; mix for an additional minute.
• Pour Filling over Crust in prepared springform pan. Wrap bottom and sides of the outside of the pan with several layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Place springform pan inside a large roasting pan, and fill the roasting pan with water so that it comes three-quarters of the way up the side of the pan. Carefully place roasting pan in oven and bake for 1 hour. Turn oven off but do not open the oven, leaving the cheesecake to sit in the cooling oven for an additional 30 minutes. Gently lift springform pan out of roasting pan and remove aluminum foil from pan. Leaving the cheesecake in the springform pan, run an offset spatula or knife around the edge of the cake, being careful not to cut the cake. Allow cheesecake to cool on the counter for 45 minutes before refrigerating for 8 hours or overnight.
• Remove cheesecake from springform pan, sprinkle 1 tablespoon granulated sugar evenly across surface of cake. Use a blowtorch to caramelize the sugar on the surface by applying direct heat to the sugar until it takes on a light brown color, moving in small circles around the surface of the cake until it's evenly caramelized. Allow to sit for 1 minute before adding another tablespoon of sugar on top of the first layer and repeat the caramelizing process. Allow to cool for 2 minutes before slicing and serving.

CRèME BRûLéE CHEESECAKE BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray. In large bowl, stir cookie mix, pudding mix, brown sugar, melted butter, 1 teaspoon of the vanilla and 1 whole egg until soft dough forms. Press dough in bottom and 1/2 inch up sides of pan.
• In small bowl, beat cream cheese, sour cream and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Add remaining whole egg, 3 egg yolks and remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla; beat until smooth. Spread over crust in pan.
• Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until set in center. Immediately sprinkle top with crushed toffee bits. Cool 30 minutes. Refrigerate about 3 hours or until chilled. For bars, cut into 9 rows by 4 rows. Store covered in refrigerator.

CRèME BRûLéE CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F
• Reduce the oven temp: Once the crust has baked, reduce the oven to 300°F.
• Let it cool: Remove the roasting pan from the oven. Let the cake cool in the water bath for about an hour, then remove it from the water bath and transfer it to a cooling rack on the counter for another hour. Finally, keep the cake in the springform pan, and let it cool, uncovered, overnight in the fridge.

CREME BRULEE CHEESECAKES

Steps:

• Cheesecakes: Preheat oven to 325 °F.
• Grease 6 5-oz ramekins and place a disc of parchment in the bottom of each.
• Place ramekins in a dish with a 2-inch (5 cm) lip.
• Stir mascarpone to soften.
• Add sugar and combine well.
• Stir in whipping cream and seeds from vanilla bean switching to a whisk to smooth out mixture.
• Whisk in eggs one at a time until blended.
• Ladle mixture into prepared ramekins and pour hot tap water around ramekins until water comes halfway up.
• Bake cheesecakes for 35 minutes then remove from water bath to cool.
• Chill for at least 6 hours before serving.
• Phyllo Wafers: To make Phyllo wafers, increase oven to 350 °F and line a baking tray with parchment.
• Lay out one sheet of phyllo and brush lightly with butter and sprinkle with sugar.
• Cover with second sheet of phyllo, repeating with butter and sugar.
• Repeat with third sheet, then fold phyllo in half.
• Cut 6 circles out of pastry with a 3 ½ -inch cookie cutter and place onto baking tray.
• Bake for 7 minutes, until golden brown. Let cool.
• To serve, place a phyllo wafer on a dessert plate.
• Run a spatula around inside of ramekin to loosen, and then turn out cheesecake onto wafer.
• Peel away parchment disc and sprinkle top of cheesecake with sugar.
• Using a kitchen butane torch, caramelize top of cheesecake.
• Repeat with remaining cheesecakes and serve.

CREME BRULEE CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Combine graham cracker crumbs, butter, and sugar in a bowl. Press over the bottom of a 9-inch springform pan.
• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
• Blend cream cheese, mascarpone, and sugar in a bowl until well combined and smooth. Add egg yolks, ricotta, sour cream, vanilla extract, lemon juice, cinnamon, and nutmeg; mix well until smooth.
• Beat egg whites in a glass, metal, or ceramic bowl until stiff peaks form. Whisk some into the yolk mixture to lighten it. Fold in remaining egg whites with a spatula. Pour over the crust in the pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until top is set, about 1 hour. Turn off oven and keep cheesecake inside with the door closed, about 1 hour. Open oven door and keep cheesecake inside for 30 minutes more.
• Cool cheesecake to room temperature and chill until firm, 4 hours to overnight.
• Sprinkle raw sugar over the cold cheesecake before serving. Use a creme brulee torch to melt and brown sugar. Allow topping to set and cool slightly, about 5 minutes.