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Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake—Prototype 10:
3-Cheese Blend (3CT-1NC-2YG):
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 24 ounces of whipped,
lowfat cottage cheese and 8 ounces 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:
2 oz. melted, white chocolate
4 oz. pumpkin butter (such as from Trader Joe's)
8 oz. (1 cup) 3-cheese blend (see above)
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 oz. All-Bran, ground up
Place the resulting mixture in the greased pan and pre-bake without tub at 300
degrees for 20 minutes (if the crust is extremely thick however, closer to 15
minutes might be sufficient—on the other hand, the mixture is a lot more
likely to be thin enough to require a good 20 minutes), then cool enough to
comfortably touch at least the pan's upper sidewall.
Batter:
1 cup granulated sugar
40 oz. (5 cups) 3-cheese blend (see above)
14 oz. pumpkin butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 teaspoons 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).
Next, carefully pour about 2/3 of this batter over the crust and place
the pan in a hot water tub and bake in oven at 300 degrees for 85 minutes (if
using a 9 1/2" pan). Afterwards, remove this from oven and carefully
add the remaining 1/3 batter on top of the earlier installment. Return all this
to oven and continue baking at 300 degrees for another 95 minutes. Then shut
off oven and cool cheesecake down while still in it (and in tub), with door
slightly ajar, for an hour. Next, remove the pan of cheesecake from oven and
tub and (at this point, add a border of chips—such as
pumpkin-flavored—if desired) continue to cool down at room temperature
for another two hours, then remove the cheesecake from its pan and
refrigerate.
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