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Baked Cookies+Creme Cheesecake—Prototype 9:
Yogurt Cheese:
Prepare ahead of time 3 pounds of yogurt cheese, derived from three 32-ounce
containers of nonfat yogurt. If the resulting yogurt cheese falls below 48
ounces, add back enough of the whey (that was strained out from the yogurt) to
make up the difference.
Crust:
4 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, melted
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
8 oz. (1 cup) yogurt cheese (see above)
3/8 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 oz. finely ground All-Bran
Pour this crust mixture into bottom of greased springform pan (9 to 9 1/2
inches) and pre-bake without tub at 300 degrees for 10 minutes, then cool enough
to comfortably touch at least the pan's upper sidewall.
Batter:
4 tablespoons melted or softened butter
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons arrowroot
40 oz. (5 cups) yogurt cheese (see above)
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
Cookies:
Chocolate sandwich cookies (with vanilla creme centers), about 2 dozen (Back To
Nature Classic Creme Cookies recommended)
Expect about 7 cups of the resulting batter, but do not add this to the pan all
at once. Rather, this needs to be done in five installments. Wrap the pan in
foil just before adding the first installment. Minimize the foil's disturbance
in order to minimize its leakage risk.
For each of the first four installments, gently scoop about 1 1/2 cups of batter
into the pan. Add about 6 cookies (don't bother breaking them up—keeping
them whole is fine and, in fact, recommended), ensuring that they are fully
coated and—as much as possible—immersed. After adding an
installment, bake the pan with its contents for 15 minutes. For each of the
first three installments, bake at 325 degrees. For the fourth installment,
reduce the temperature and bake at 300 degrees. For all four installments here,
bake with the pan in a tub filled with at least 1/4 to 1/2 inch of boiling
water, but (to reduce spillage risks) do not fill the tub all the way at this
point, because the whole tub-and-pan assembly is going to need to be removed
from the oven (in order to comfortably add contents to the pan) between
installments.
After all this is done, there should be about a cup of batter left, with 60
minutes of baking time reached at this point (15 minutes for each of the first
four installments). Now comes the fifth installment—carefully add the last
of this batter (do not add any more cookies at this point) on top of the pan's
other contents. Try to fully coat the entire surface, especially wherever cookie
pieces may be showing. Next, return the entire pan-and-tub assembly to the oven.
At this point, fill up the tub generously with boiling water. Resume baking at
300 degrees for another 55 minutes (based upon usage of a 9 1/2" pan).
Afterward, shut the oven off, and leave its door slightly ajar, with the
cheesecake still inside—and in the tub—for an hour. Next, remove the
cheesecake from the oven and tub, and—if desired—add a border of
chocolate chips around the edge of this cheesecake. Continue to cool it down at
room temperature for another two hours. After doing so, remove the cheesecake
from pan and refrigerate.
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