Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, peppermint bark cheesecake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook peppermint bark cheesecake using 23 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Peppermint Bark Cheesecake:
- Make ready Crust
- Take 22 each regular Oreos, with filling
- Make ready 3 tbsp butter, melted
- Make ready Filling
- Take 24 oz cream cheese, softened
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 4 oz white chocolate, melted (Ghirardelli is preferred)
- Get 1 1/2 tbsp flour
- Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp heavy cream
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 2 tsp peppermint extract
- Prepare 3 each eggs
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup Ghirardelli peppermint bark
- Get Mousse
- Take 1/2 cup cool whip, softened
- Take 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- Get 2 oz white chocolate, melted
- Take 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
- Take 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Get Topping
- Make ready 1 chocolate shavings
- Make ready 1 peppermint pieces
- Get 1 cool whip (preferably in a spray can)
Instructions to make Peppermint Bark Cheesecake:
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Prepare a 9" spring-form pan with 2 sheets of tin foil
- In a food processor, blend cookies until only fine crumbs remain
- Add melted butter & blend
- Transfer crumb mixture to spring-form pan
- Using a flat-bottomed cup (or whatever is handy), press down to create an even crust
- Bake crust for 10 minutes, then set aside
- Reduce temperature to 325°
- Cut peppermint bark into small pieces & set aside
- Melt 4 ounces of white chocolate in a double boiler over simmering water, stirring until fully melted (over microwave on 50% power for 30 second intervals until melted, stirring well between each interval)
- In a large bowl or stand mixer, beat 24 ounces of cream cheese until smooth
- Add sugar & mix well (scrape bowl well before each addition)
- Add melted chocolate, flour, whipping cream, salt, & peppermint extract - mix well
- Add one egg at a time on medium/low speed until smooth & well-blended
- Add peppermint bark pieces, stirring by hand
- Pour the filling into the crust
- Transfer spring-form pan into a larger pan, such as a roasting pan
- Add enough hot water to the larger pan to reach halfway up the outside of the spring-form pan
- Carefully place in oven & bake at 325° for 1 hour
- Turn off the oven, but leave the cheesecake in the oven for another 45 minutes
- Remove & let cool for at least 1 hour
- Chill for at least 4 hours
- In a medium bowl, beat 4 ounces of softened cream cheese, 2 ounces of melted white chocolate, cool whip, 1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar, & vanilla until smooth
- Carefully remove side of spring-form pan & spread mousse mixture evenly over cheesecake
- Chill for at least 4 hours
- Sprinkle with chocolate shavings & peppermint pieces
- Spray cool whip on the top edges
- Store covered in the refrigerator
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