Tiramisu Cheesecake
2018-08-19 15:42:55
Serves 8
Prep Time
4 hr 30 min
Cook Time
1 hr 30 min
Total Time
6 hr
Crust
- 1 sleeve chocolate graham crackers, crushed
- 5 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
Cheesecake
- 4 (8-oz.) bars cream cheese, softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 4 large eggs
- 1/3 cup rum
- 1/3 cup brewed espresso or coffee
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 12 lady fingers
Serving
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon confectioners sugar
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder, for dusting
- 2 tablespoons chocolate shavings
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and spray a 9-inch pan with pam.
- Make crust: Add the graham crackers to a food processor and pulse until finely ground. In a large bowl, mix together the graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, sugar, and cocoa powder. Using your hands, press the mixture onto the bottom and up the sides of the pan.
- Make cheesecake: In a large bowl beat the cream cheese and sugar until smooth, 5 minutes. Add cornstarch and eggs and beat to combine. Add rum, coffee and vanilla and beat to combine.
- Pour half the batter into the pan, add a layer of ladyfingers, and top with the rest of the batter and bake until center of cheesecake is slightly jiggly, 1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes.
- Turn oven off and let cheesecake cool in oven for one hour, then refrigerate until completely cool, four hours or up to overnight.
- While the cheesecake is cooling, make the whipped cream by beating the heavy, cream, vanilla and confectioners sugar in a medium metal bowl until stuff peaks form, 10 minutes. Add to a ziplock bag and snip the corner off with scissors.
- When ready to serve, pipe circles of whipped cream around the edges of the cheesecake, dust with cocoa powder and top with chocolate shavings.
Adapted from Delish
Adapted from Delish
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