Hey all! If I had my life in order, I would have shared this peanut butter cheesecake with you last week so you could make it for the peanut butter lover in your life on “National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day” (Friday, March 1) but I don’t, so I didn’t.
DISCLAIMER: I’m not a huge cheesecake fan, but oooh my, this is a good one! Ian and I recently ordered a piece of Peanut Butter Cheesecake from a local cafe and honestly, I don’t think I have ever had such a delicious cheesecake! Theirs was topped with Reese Cups, which really just sent me over the edge. Naturally, I had to come up with a recipe of my own. It took a couple of tries, but here we go…
Peanut Butter Cheesecake
The perfect cheesecake for those who didn't know they like cheesecake
Ingredients
Base
- 2 cups Oreo crumbs
- 1/2 cup melted butter
Filling
- 500 g two bricks Cream Cheese, room temperature .. hot tip, I just use store brand unless Philadelphia is on sale
- 3 eggs room temperature
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter .. definitely use the sugary not natural stuff
Topping
- 2 tablespoons milk chocolate chips
- 3/4 teaspoon peanut butter
- 2 Wunderbars roughly chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
- Base
- Combine butter and Oreo crumbs in a mixing bowl
- Spread evenly on the bottom of a 10" springform pan
- Set aside
- Filling
- On medium speed, using paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese for about a minute
- Slowly add icing sugar
- Once incorporated, add the eggs
- Mix until incorporated then add peanut butter
- Mix until smooth
- Pour filling on top of the Oreo base (this is a thicker batter, so you may have to scoop it out and spread it to cover the base evenly)
- Bake for 45 minutes
- Let cool once baked
- Topping
- Melt chocolate chip and peanut butter, mixing together, in a double boiler
- You can either spread the chocolate on top of the entire cooled cheesecake or drizzle it on
- Sprinkle the chopped chocolate bar over the top of the cheesecake (bonus points for you if you didn't eat any of the chocolate bar while you were waiting..)
- Let chocolate set
- Keep in the fridge, but serve at room temperature
