White Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake
Cheesecake, with peppermint and white chocolate, makes the perfect holiday dessert.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 2-8 oz packages of cream cheese room temperature
- 3/4 c sugar
- 3 eggs room temp
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 candy cane or peppermint crushed up
- 1/2 cup white chocolate morsels
- 1/3 cup crushed peppermints or candy canes
Crust
- 1 prepared graham cracker crust -or-
- 1.5 cups ground up graham cracker
- 6 Tbs butter melted
- 1/3 cup sugar
Toppings
- Melted white chocolate
- Fresh made whipping cream
- Crushed peppermints
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325
- Mix your crust ingredients together, press into 9x9 pan, and put in oven to bake for about 5-10 minutes (or use a premade crust)
- Take single crushed candy cane or peppermints, and put in a cup, pour the 1/4 cup heavy cream over, and let sit. This will infuse the cream with peppermint flavor
- While baking crust, cream together room temp cream cheese and sugar.
- Add eggs to cream cheese and sugar one at a time, and beat together
- Add in cream and peppermint mixture, beat until just barely mixed (over beating will cause cheesecake to crack)
- Fold in peppermint pieces and white chocolate morsels
- Pour over crust
- Bake at 325 for 40 minutes
- Turn oven off, crack door open slightly, and leave in oven for 1 hour
- Refrigerate for one hour
- Serve by drizzling melted white chocolate over top, and garnish with whipped cream and peppermint pieces