Irish Cream White Chocolate Cheesecake

Submitted by OceanIvy

"A incredible cheesecake! 8) You may add a little green food coloring if you like 8)"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Yields: 1 cheesecake

ingredients

• Crust

• 10 graham crackers, broken up
• 1 1⁄4 cups pecans
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

• Filling

• 1 1⁄2 lbs cream cheese, room temperature
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1⁄3 cup Baileys Irish Cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 ounces imported white chocolate

• Topping

• 1 1⁄2 cups sour cream
• 1⁄4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1⁄2 ounces white chocolate, grated
• 24 pecan halves

directions

1. Break the white chocolate into pieces.
2. Preheat oven to 325°.
3. Lightly butter a 9-inch springform pan with 2 3/4-inch-high sides.
4. Finely grind the graham crackers, pecans and sugar together in processor.
5. Add the butter and blend, using on/off turns.
6. Press mixture on bottom and 2 inches up sides of the pan.
7. Chill for 20 minutes.
8. Prepare the filling: With a electric mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar in large bowl.
9. Beat until smooth.
10. In a medium bowl whisk eggs, Baileys and vanilla extract just until blended.
11. Beat mixture into the cream cheese mixture.
12. Finely chop the white chocolate in processor using on/off turns; add to cheese mixture.
13. Pour filling into crust.
14. Bake until edges of the filling are puffed and dry looking and center is just set, near 50 minutes.
15. Let cake cool on rack.
16. Make topping: Mix sour cream and powdered sugar in small bowl.
17. Spread topping onto cake when cooled; sprinkle chocolate over.
18. Place pecans around edges of cake.
19. Refrigerate until chilled, overnight or 6 hours.

Reviews

[joeknee]

VERY good - my changes were just a few - used splenda instead of sugar and sugar free shortbread cookies instead of graham crackers. I also melted the white chocolate and blended it in. Oh, I also took the cake out 10 minutes prior to being done, added the sour cream topping and put it back in to finish. (oh, and I used greek yogurt instead of sour cream, because that is all I had!) - OK more than a few changes! This was excellent though!