White Chocolate and Caramel Cheesecake
– Cheesecake cu ciocolata alba si sos caramel
Ingredients
Crust:
- 150g graham crackers
- 20g almonds
- 60g butter, melted
Filling:
- 150ml heavy cream
- 100g white chocolate
- 700g cream cheese
- 100g sugar
- Beans from 1 vanilla pod
- 4 eggs
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Amaretto caramel sauce:
- 200g sugar
- 20g glucose
- 50ml water
- 300ml heavy cream, heated
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/4 cup Amaretto
Directions
Crust:
- Ground the crackers and almonds in a food processor.
- Add the butter and mix well until well combined. Transfer the mixture into a round cake pan lined with parchment paper.
- Press it well on the bottom of the pan and set aside.
Filling:
- Bring the heavy cream to the boiling point in a saucepan then remove from heat and stir in the chocolate. Mix until melted then pour the mixture into a bowl and add the rest of the ingredients.
- Mix well with a whisk then pour the filling over the crust.
- Bake the cheesecake in the preheated oven at 160C for 1 hour.
Amaretto caramel sauce:
- Combine the sugar, glucose and water in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil over medium flame.
- Cook until it begins to caramelize and turn into an amber color.
- Pour in the heavy cream, add the salt and mix until the sugar is melted.
- Cook the sauce for 5 more minutes then remove from heat and let it cool down.
- Stir in the Amaretto and use.