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Baked Whoopie Pie Cheesecake—Prototype 2:
3-Cheese Blend (1CT-1NC-4YG):
Prepare ahead of time 32 ounces of yogurt cheese, derived from two 32-ounce
containers (that's 64 ounces altogether) of nonfat yogurt. If the resulting
yogurt cheese falls below 32 ounces, add back enough of the whey (that was
strained out from the yogurt) to make up the difference. To this yogurt cheese
combine 8 ounces of whipped, lowfat cottage cheese and 8 ounces of softened
Neufchatel cheese ("light cream cheese").
Grease a 9 1/2" (or 9") pan, but do not wrap foil around it until just
before the batter is added (spreading the crust in an already wrapped pan can
result in greater disturbance to the foil, thus increasing leakage risks).
Crust:
4 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, melted
8 oz. (1 cup) 3-cheese blend (see above)
3/8 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 oz. finely ground All-Bran
Place the resulting mixture in the greased pan and pre-bake without tub at 300
degrees for 5-10 minutes, depending on the mixture's thickness (closer to 10
minutes if thin enough to be fully distributed across the pan's bottom by gentle
shaking, closer to 5 minutes if thick enough to require spreading out this
mixture by pressing on it with a utensil and/or fingers), then cool enough to
comfortably touch at least the pan's upper sidewall.
Batter:
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
40 oz. (5 cups) 3-cheese blend (see above)
1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon (5 tablespoons altogether) arrowroot
2 teaspoons vanilla
5 eggs
4 small whoopie pies (each about 2 1/2 to 3 inches in diameter, such as from
Trader Joe's).
Vertically cut each of these whoopie pies into 6 "slices" (not
horizontally—in other words, each "slice" should contain two
chocolate "outsides" and cream in between them).
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 three installments. Wrap the pan in
foil just before adding the first installment.
For each of the first two installments, gently scoop about 3 cups of batter into
the pan. Add the pieces from 2 whoopie pies, ensuring that they are fully coated
and—as much as possible—immersed (this is likely not readily doable
on the first installment, but it should be on the second). After adding an
installment, bake the pan with its contents for 30 minutes. For the first
installment, bake at 325 degrees. For the second installment, reduce the
temperature and bake at 300 degrees. For both 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 (30 minutes for each of the first
two installments). Now comes the third installment—carefully add the last
of this batter (do not add any more whoopie pies at this point) on top of the
pan's other contents. Try to fully coat the entire surface, especially wherever
whoopie pie 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 80 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 (then immediately add a border of chocolate
chips around the edge of this cheesecake, if desired). 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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