Decadent cheesecake layered with Crème Brûlée!
This is one amazing cheesecake that you can’t go on without trying!
Delicious smooth cheesecake on top of the classic and elegant Crème Brûlée and some caramelized sugar on top!
I was just thinking about what inspires my recipes. Ingredients at the store, pictures of food, culture, art, smells or “nothing in the fridge so you are forced to get creative”. Smell is probably one of my bigger inspirations for recipe creating. Have you ever smelled something and could actually taste it?
Ingredients:
For Crust:
1 1/2 cups finely crushed graham crackers
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
5 tbs butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla
For Cheesecake:
2 8-ounce packages of Cream Cheese, at room temperature
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 cup whipping cream
1 Tablespoons corn starch
1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
Crème Brûlée
2 cups of heavy whipping cream
4 tbs of sugar
1/2 cup of extra fine sugar for burning
5 large egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions:
~ Grease a 9-inch spring form, set aside. Preheat the oven to 300.
For crust:
1. Crush the graham crackers in the food processor. Mix in the sugar. Stir in the melted butter and vanilla. Mix very well. Press graham crackers into the pan, evenly, all over the bottom and about half way up the side.
Cheesecake:
1. Start beating the cream cheese with a mixer until smooth, about 2 minutes.
2. Add the vanilla extract and the heavy cream into the cream cheese. Add the eggs, one at the time, beating after each addition.
3. Add the sour cream, sugar, corn starch and vanilla extract. Make sure that all ingredients are well combined.
4. Pour the cheesecake batter into the pan with crust. Place in the oven while making the Crème Brûlée custard. (about 13-15 minutes)
Crème Brûlée:
1. In a saucepan, over medium heat, combine heavy cream and 4 tbs of sugar. Cook, stirring occasionally until just starting to boil. Set aside.
2. Beat the egg yolks and vanilla until smooth and light. Pour in hot cream very slowly (if you do it too fast, you will cook the eggs), a little bit at a time. Do not stop beating the mixture.
3. Pour the mixture over the cheesecake. Here is where it got really interesting for me! I guess, I poured it a little too heavy, the creme brulee custard broke through the center of the cheesecake and the layers literally switched places! The creme brulee ended up on the bottom and cheesecake on the top! It was AWESOME!
4. Bake for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
5. When chilled, take out of the refrigerator and sprinkle with 1/3 cup of extra fine sugar over the top. Using a cooking torch, move the flame continuously over the surface in a smooth and even motion until the sugar is melted and golden brown.
Layered Crème Brûlée Cheesecake
Ingredients
- For Crust:
- 1 1/2 cups finely crushed graham crackers
- 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
- 5 tbs unsalted butter melted
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- For Cheesecake:
- 16 ounce Cream Cheese at room temperature
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 Tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs at room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Crème Brûlée:
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 4 tbs white granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup extra fine sugar for burning
- 5 large egg yolks
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- ~ Grease a 9-inch spring form, set aside. Preheat the oven to 300.
- For crust:
- Crush the graham crackers in the food processor. Mix in the sugar. Stir in the melted butter and vanilla. Mix very well. Press graham crackers into the pan, evenly, all over the bottom and about half way up the side.
- Cheesecake:
- Start beating the cream cheese with a mixer until smooth, about 2 minutes.
- Add the vanilla extract and the heavy cream into the cream cheese. Add the eggs, one at the time, beating after each addition.
- Add the sour cream, sugar, corn starch and vanilla extract. Make sure that all ingredients are well combined.
- Pour the cheesecake batter into the pan with crust. Place in the oven while making the Crème Brûlée custard. (about 13-15 minutes)
- Crème Brûlée:
- In a saucepan, over medium heat, combine heavy cream and 4 tbs of sugar. Cook, stirring occasionally until just starting to boil. Set aside.
- Beat the egg yolks and vanilla until smooth and light. Pour in hot cream very slowly (if you do it too fast, you will cook the eggs), a little bit at a time. Do not stop beating the mixture.
- Pour the mixture over the cheesecake. Here is where it got really interesting for me! I guess, I poured it a little too heavy, the creme brulee custard broke through the center of the cheesecake and the layers literally switched places! The creme brulee ended up on the bottom and cheesecake on the top! It was AWESOME!
- Bake for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
- When chilled, take out of the refrigerator and sprinkle with 1/3 cup of extra fine sugar over the top. Using a cooking torch, move the flame continuously over the surface in a smooth and even motion until the sugar is melted and golden brown.
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Linda says
I make this all the time, it’s a crowd favorite at our house. I add vanilla bean paste to the cheesecake and custard to amp up the vanilla flavor, as you mentioned Cream Brûlée isn’t a flavor forward dessert. But I serve mine with fresh berries lightly tossed with sugar .
LyubaB says
Yum! That sounds delicious!