Reese’s Peanut Butter Cheesecake

Rich and decadent, this Reese’s Peanut Butter Cheesecake Recipe begins with a cookie crust, is crammed with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, then topped with a chocolate ganache or even extra peanut butter cups.

Ingredients Crust: 30 chocolate sandwich cookies 6 tablespoons butter, melted Dash of salt Cheesecake: 32 oz cream cheese, softened 5 eggs 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 1 cup delicate peanut butter 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream 1 teaspoon vanilla 12 oz Reese’s Peanut Butter miniature cups, unwrapped and roughly chopped Topping: 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 (8 oz) package deal deal Reese’s Minis Instructions Preheat oven to 325°F.  Put the chocolate sandwich cookies in a meals processor and activity till they kind nice crumbs.  Add within the butter and salt and activity to combine.  Press the combination into the backside and midway up the facets of a 9-inch springform pan.  Bake for 10-12 minutes, then set apart to cool.  Wrap aluminum foil round the facets and the backside of the springform pan. Beat the cream cheese till smooth.  Add within the eggs, one at a time, scraping down the facets of the bowl in among every addition.  Add within the brown sugar, peanut butter, cream and vanilla; beat till combined.  Gently fold within the chopped up Reese’s Miniatures.  Pour the combination into the cooled crust.  Place the pan interior a greater pan and intently upload about 1 inch of hot water within the greater pan.  Bake the cheesecake till it's simply set, about 1 hour 15 minutes.  Turn off the oven and permit the temperature to come down gently for about an hour.  Remove from the oven, cool completely, then refrigerate till fully cool. To make the chocolate topping, warmth the cream till simmering, simply earlier than boiling.  Remove from the warmth and upload the chocolate chips.  Allow the combination to sit for a pair minutes, then stir till smooth.  Pour over the ideal of the cheesecake, permitting it to drip down the sides.  Sprinkle the Reese’s minis over the ideal of the cheesecake. Recipe Notes: Total time doesn't contain chilling time. Nutrition news offered as an estimate only. Various manufacturers and merchandise can swap the counts. Any nutritional news ought to purely be used as a well-liked guideline. Nutrition Calories: 970 Sugar: 70 g Sodium: 603 mg Fat: 64 g Saturated Fat: 32 g Unsaturated Fat: 11 g Trans Fat: 0 g Carbohydrates: 84 g Fiber: four g Protein: 16 g Cholesterol: 160 mg

Sometimes, I simply can’t get cheesecake off the brain. I adore cheesecake, but I don’t typically have an excuse to make a complete cheesecake. But typically you simply must make an excuse, right?? Well, once I decided to make a peanut butter cheesecake, I knew I needed to pass all out. I didn’t desire a 1-inch cheesecake. I needed this child tall and wealthy and creamy and packed with so a lot peanut butter and chocolate that it'll remedy any peanut butter craving. And that's precisely what I ended up with! This peanut butter cheesecake is wealthy and decadent and absolutely social gathering worthy. It truly would possibly be my favourite cheesecake!

A few tricks – make certain you wrap the springform pan tightly with foil so that the water doesn’t leak in. (More in this below!) I used to by no capacity have issues with water leaking, but I’ve ruined a pair cheesecakes recently on account of leaks. And trust me – here is one cheesecake you don’t desire to ruin!! Leaving the cheesecake within the oven to steadily cool it down allows to scale back the danger of the cheesecake cracking. But since this cheesecake is protected with a ganache, in case your cheesecake does crack, it’s no huge deal. You’ll be the purely 1 which will know!! And simply due to the fact here is such a tall cheesecake, it does take a while to bake through. I all the time fear about overbaking, but may have left mine in a pair of minutes longer. But I do love how creamy it became out!!

This shall be the correct dessert to take to your subsequent vacation get together!!

Tips for making this Reese’s Peanut Butter Cheesecake Recipe
Here are a pair of ideas to guarantee that your cheesecake comes out perfectly:

Make certain all your foods are room temperature – no longer simply the cream cheese. Set all of them out about 30 minutes earlier than you're going to bounce the recipe.
Don’t overmix. Overmixing will upload too a lot air to the batter, which capacity your cheesecake will fall and you’ll be left with a huge crack within the ideal of your cheesecake.
A water bath makes a huge difference! Read extra about this below.
Make certain to sit back the cheesecake thoroughly.
How to Bake a Cheesecake in a Water Bath
A water bath may well possibly be just a bit controversial. Many cheesecakes were ruined by leaking pans. So right right listed here are a pair of ideas to make certain that pan is wrapped properly so you won’t cease up with leaks.

Wrap the pan in a double layer of aluminum foil. Make certain to pass excessive up sufficient at the facets so that the water can’t sneak in by the top.
Make certain the foil is wrapped tightly to the pan at the bottom.
I desire to location the crammed springform pan into the greater pan, after which location these within the oven earlier than including the hot water. That method water won’t splash up whereas you're shifting the pan to the oven.
If water leaking into your pan is a typical occurrence, it will possibly be your springform pan. Make certain it's tight fitting, and if all else fails, purchase a model new pan.
I have heard of many folks having luck skipping the water bath and simply including a pan of water to the rack within the oven underneath the cheesecake. I even have tried this, and whereas it does assist some, I don’t assume it has fairly the identical impact that the real water bath does. Besides combating cracks, the water bath also allows the cheesecake to prepare dinner extra even, and I assume that the pan underneath doesn’t truly assist with this. But if no longer worrying concerning the water leaking is your greatest concern, here is genuinely an option!
Reese's Peanut Butter Cheesecake Recipe

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I have a number of springform pans but I’m no longer certain what model they are. But this one appears to get lovely respectable reviews.

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Rich and decadent, this Reese’s Peanut Butter Cheesecake Recipe begins with a cookie crust, is crammed with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, then topped with a chocolate ganache or even extra peanut butter cups.