Baked Maple Cheesecake—Prototype 8:
 
It seems like it has been a very long time since I last baked a maple cheesecake. That would be about 7 years if I made the last one in 2017. So many changes have happened to my cheesecakes in general since then, and the latest updates for mid-2024 are reflected here (especially from Prototype 24 of my plain cheesecakes, which I made late last year; for my latest maple, however, I decided to give a try to cutting the baking time from 90 minutes to 85).
 
3-Cheese Blend (1CT-1NC-1YG):
Prepare ahead of time 16 ounces of yogurt cheese, derived from one 32-ounce container of nonfat yogurt. If the resulting yogurt cheese falls below 16 ounces, add back enough of the whey (that was strained out from the yogurt) to make up the difference. To this yogurt cheese combine 16 ounces of whipped, lowfat cottage cheese and 16 ounces (two 8-ounce packages) of softened Neufchatel cheese ("light cream cheese").

Grease a 9 1/2" (or 9") springform pan, but do not wrap foil around it yet (see below).

Crust:
4 oz. melted, white chocolate
8 oz. (1 cup) 3-cheese blend (see above)
1/2 cup maple sugar
1/2 teaspoon maple flavoring
2 oz. All-Bran, ground up

Place the resulting mixture in the greased pan and pre-bake without tub at 300 degrees for 30 minutes, then cool enough to comfortably touch at least the pan's upper sidewall.

Batter:
1 1/4 cups maple sugar
40 oz. (5 cups) 3-cheese blend (see above)
2 teaspoons maple flavoring
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
6 eggs

Wrap the pan in foil just before adding the batter (to minimize the foil's disturbance and therefore its leakage risk, do not put it on any earlier). Or as an alternative to using foil, place this pan in an Easy Bath Cheesecake Wrap—and don't bother waiting for the pan to get comfortably cool to do so.

Next, pour the batter over the crust and bake this cheesecake in a hot water tub at 300 degrees for 85 minutes (if using a 9 1/2" pan). Then cool the cheesecake down while still in oven (with this oven shut off) and in tub with door slightly ajar for an hour. Afterwards, remove from oven and tub and continue to cool down at room temperature for another 120 minutes, then remove from pan and refrigerate.

Maple Cheesecake—Prototype 8

I served this one at a special event ("Koffee with Kenny", featuring our District Superintendent) in July 2024 at my church, Living Hope, where the cheesecake was nicely received.

I also was content with how this cheesecake came out, in light of my baking it for only 85 minutes.
 

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