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Cheesecake Recipe: Create Your Own -
Ingredients
  • subheading: Choose a cookie for the crust:
  • Graham crackers
  • Vanilla wafers
  • Chocolate wafers
  • Gingersnaps
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  • subheading: Choose an add-in (optional):
  • Milk chocolate: 10 oz., melted and cooled
  • Bittersweet or semisweet chocolate: 10 oz., melted and cooled
  • Ricotta: 1 cup
  • Strawberry purée: 1 cup
  • Blueberry purée: 1 cup
  • Banana purée: 1 cup
  • Dulce de leche: ¾ cup
  • White chocolate: 8 oz., melted and cooled
  • Sour cream or crème fraîche: ¾ cup
  • Mascarpone: 8 oz., at room temperature
  • Canned pure pumpkin purée: 1 cup
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  • subheading: Choose up to two flavorings (optional):
  • Creamy peanut butter: ⅓ cup
  • Finely chopped crystallized ginger: 2 Tbs.
  • Instant coffee: 2-½ tsp. (or 2 tsp. espresso powder)
  • Finely grated lime zest: 2 Tbs.
  • Finely grated lemon zest: 2 Tbs.
  • Finely grated orange zest: 2 Tbs.
  • Mini chocolate chips: ⅓ cup
  • Amaretto: 3 Tbs.
  • Baileys: 3 Tbs.
  • Chambord: 3 Tbs.
  • Kahlua: 3 Tbs.
  • Grand Marnier: 3 Tbs.
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  • subheading: Choose up to four spices for a total of 2 tsp. (optional):
  • Ground nutmeg (up to ½ tsp.)
  • Ground ginger
  • Ground cloves (up to ½ tsp.)
  • Ground cinnamon
  •  
  • subheading: Choose a topping (optional):
  • Caramel sauce: see recipe below
  • Chocolate ganache: see recipe below
  • Burnt sugar: Sprinkle 2 Tbs. granulated sugar evenly over the top and slowly pass a hand-held kitchen torch over the sugar until melted and caramelized.
  • Glazed fresh fruit: see recipe below
  • Lemon curd
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  • subheading: Choose up to three garnishes (optional):
  • Chopped toasted nuts
  • Chocolate-covered espresso beans
  • Cocoa powder (sift over cake)
  • Crushed amaretti cookies
  • Whipped cream
  • Confectioners’ sugar (sift over cake)
  • Chocolate shards
  • Toasted pecans
Note: Ingredients may have been altered from the original.
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