White Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe

I spent yesterday afternoon baking a delicious White Chocolate Cheesecake for dinner at a friends that never actually happened. But nonetheless it was delicious and hey, more for me!

This recipe was a mix/adaptation of my Triple Chocolate Cheesecake and my White Chocolate Cheesecake Cups and is just as tasty. Here is the recipe;

Ingredients

• 400g of Chocolate Digestives
• 75g of Butter
• 600g of Cream Cheese
• 4 heaped tbsp of Icing Sugar
• 350g of White Chocolate

My White Chocolate Cheesecake Ready to Serve

Method

1. Ground the chocolate digestives until fine
2. Melt the butter and allow to cool slightly
3. Mix the butter and ground biscuits into a bowl and squeeze together with the back of a wooden spoon
4. Tip into your spring form tin (mine is 26cm but slightly bigger or smaller is OK too)
5. Push down gently in a flat even surface
6. Mix the cream cheese and icing sugar together gently (this does not take long)
7. Melt 250g of the white chocolate in a glass bowl over boiling water
8. Add the cream cheese dollop by dollop into the chocolate, continually stirring until you get an evenly coloured mixture
9. Poor on top of the biscuit base then smooth and flatten
10. Chill for 1 hour
11. Now grate the remaining 100g of white chocolate and sprinkle evenly over the top of the cheesecake
12. Chill for a further 30-45 minutes before serving

This recipe is time consuming and the washing up part is not my favourite but it is relatively easy to make and once you have made one it gets even easier. It is also a versatile recipe that can be adapted to suit your own taste. I have made them with chocolate but you can also use flavouring if you want to make a vanilla or strawberry one!

A Delicious Slice of my White Chocolate Cheesecake

 

If you have tried out any of my recipes or adapted it in any way I would love to know how they have come out!

White Chocolate Cheesecake Cups

Late last night my boyfriend got called into work which left me to my own devices, which is not always a good thing but last night it was!

I decided to make a treat so that hopefully we would get to relax together for at least part of the weekend.  As my cheesecake was such a hit at our dinner party last weekend I wanted to make it again but as our friends are away in the UK this weekend it did not seem worth making a large cheesecake for the 2 of us. So this weekend I have been inventive and have made White Chocolate Cheesecake Cups, mini cheesecakes for us to enjoy. They are a great idea if you do not have the right equipment to make the Triple Chocolate Cheesecake that I shared with you before or if you are looking for small individual treats to enjoy.

This is how I made them;

Ingredients

• 100g of Chocolate Digestives
• 20g of Butter
• 200g of Cream Cheese
• 1 heaped tbsp of Icing Sugar
• 200g of White Chocolate

Method

1. Ground the chocolate digestives until fine
2. Melt the butter and allow to cool slightly
3. Mix the butter and ground biscuits into a bowl and squeeze together with the back of a wooden spoon
4. Tip into 4 individual cups or dishes
5. Push down gently in a flat even surface, do not compact it too tightly as it will be hard to eat
6. Mix the cream cheese and icing sugar together gently (this does not take long)
7. Melt 100g of the white chocolate in a glass bowl
8. Add the cream cheese dollop by dollop into the chocolate, continually stirring until you get an evenly coloured mixture
9. Poor on top of the biscuit base then smooth and flatten
10. Chill for 1 hour
11. When it has cooled melt 75g of the white chocolate in a glass bowl
12. Pour on top of the cheesecake and move the tin around to spread the topping evenly
13. Chill until the chocolate topping is set
14. Before serving grate the remaining 25g of white chocolate and sprinkle evenly over the top

My White Chocolate Cheesecake Cups

As you can see they look really great and they taste delicious too, once you have this cheesecake recipe you can adapt it and enjoy how you like. I think this may be the last time I will be making them for a while after calculating the calorie content as the ‘diet starts on Monday’.

Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe

Every Sunday my boyfriend and I take it in turns with our friends to host dinner. We alternate week by week who hosts and cooks dinner and who bring dessert and wine. It has become our own little tradition and has been going for over 5 months. This has meant that the challenge has become finding new and delicious things to cook each week. This week it was my turn to make dessert so I made a Triple Chocolate Cheesecake for the first time.

My Triple Chocolate Cheesecake

The cheesecake was a great success and so delicious, although a little sickly, after an amazing Ukrainian dinner of perogy’s nobody was asking for a second piece. However it made a delicious snack the next day (for each of the four of us). Here is the recipe;

Ingredients

• 400g of Chocolate Digestive Biscuits
• 75g of Butter
• 800g of Cream Cheese
• 4 heaped tbsp of Icing Sugar
• 100g of Dark Chocolate
• 300g of Milk Chocolate
• 100g of White Chocolate

Method

1. Ground the chocolate digestives until fine
2. Melt the butter and allow to cool slightly
3. Mix the butter and ground biscuits into a bowl and squeeze together with the back of a wooden spoon
4. Tip into a 26cm spring form tin
5. Push down to compact in a flat even surface
6. Mix the cream cheese and icing sugar together gently (this does not take long)
7. Melt 3/4 of the dark and milk chocolate together in a glass bowl
8. Add the cream cheese dollop by dollop into the chocolate, continually stirring until you get an evenly coloured mixture
9. Poor on top of the biscuit base then smooth and flatten
10. Chill for 2 hours
11. When it has cooled melt the rest of the dark, milk and white chocolate in a glass bowl, as it melts stir as little as possible to get a swirl in the colouring
12. Pour on top of the cheesecake and move the tin around to spread the topping evenly
13. Chill until the chocolate topping is set
14. Before taking the cheesecake out of the tin run a knife that has been heated by warm water around the edge to ensure it does not stick

The recipe is really simple, but it is time consuming and extremely messy! However I can promise you that the results are more than worth the effort for a delicious cheesecake.