Turtle Cheesecake – Sugar Spun Run

Searching for a connoisseur cheesecake? Do that turtle cheesecake! It’s layered with caramel, chocolate ganache, and pecans all through. No water tub required! Recipe features a how-to video!

A Gourmand Cheesecake Recipe

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

Why you’ll love my recipe:

• Captures all the weather of traditional Turtle candies: pecan infused crust, thick ripple of chocolate and caramel all through, and naturally extra caramel, chocolate, and pecans on high.
• No water tub required! Like all of my cheesecake recipes (I’ve greater than 30 now!), this turtle cheesecake is made WITHOUT a water tub. Don’t fear although, I embrace plenty of suggestions for stopping cracks!
• May be made a number of days prematurely and in addition freezes nicely!
• The proper strategy to cap off a night, particularly after having fun with one thing equally connoisseur 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 attempt it 🤩

What You Want

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

• Cream cheese. You need to use full-fat, block-style cream cheese for this recipe. Low-fat or spreadable cream cheese will forestall 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 refined taste that goes SO nicely with the caramel and pecans!
• Caramel Sauce. You need to use retailer purchased caramel sauce (often bought with the ice cream toppings) or use my do-it-yourself caramel sauce, which is what I desire. You’ll soiled a number of extra bowls in the event you make the caramel from scratch, but it surely’s so price it!
• Chocolate. When you may use chocolate chips, I desire 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 doubtless 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 the way to toast pecans.

Bear in mind, that is simply an outline of the components I used and why. For the total 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 probably be protecting the highest of our turtle cheesecake; nonetheless, the perfectionist in me (and lots of of you!) can’t assist however need a clean, crack-free floor. Right here’s the way to obtain that!

• Press the crust excessive up the perimeters of the pan. That is the #1 tip I can provide you! Doing this can enable your crust to shrink with the cheesecake because it cools, which is a quite common purpose for cracks.
• Use room temperature components. This may enable your components to mix extra simply and forestall over-mixing.
• Don’t over-mix. Over-mixing may 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 may cause a curdled, eggy tasting cheesecake that puffs within the oven and sinks in on itself. To forestall this, evenly combine every egg earlier than including it, add the eggs one after the other, 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 may decelerate the cooling course of as a substitute of instantly bringing the recent cheesecake out into the room temperature air.

These are all methods that I take advantage of in each single one among my cheesecakes and you need to use them for any cheesecake you bake.

The way to 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 the whole lot 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 after the other, 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 verify the whole lot 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 no 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 underneath sizzling water, dry it off, after which slice! Do that between every reduce and you’ll have attractive cheesecake slices.

Steadily Requested Questions

Wish to attempt one other connoisseur 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! Should 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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