Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cheesecake in a Glass

Click below for the accompanying YouTube Tutorial

Tutorial Video on how to Make This Cheesecake

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup mix nuts/ unsalted peanuts (your choice)
• 1/2 cup Caster Sugar
• 1/4 cup Water
• 1/4 cup Thickened Cream Whipped
• 110 g Dark Chocolate
• 250 g Cream Cheese
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp Gelatine dissolved in 1/4 cup boiling water
• 1/3 cup Peanut Butter
• 1/2 cup Thickened Cream, extra

Instructions:

1. Roughly chop and spread peanuts onto a tray lined with baking paper
2. In a saucepan combine sugar and water over a medium heat. Stir occasionally until the sugar dissolves.  Leave to simmer until golden.

1. Remove from heat and pour over the peanuts. Allow to cool and harden
2. Set up a bain marine and combine the chocolate and cream. Stir until smooth and combined. Take off heat and allow to cool
3. Beat the cream cheese and brown sugar until smooth and creamy.
4. Add the gelatine and peanut butter. Again beat until smooth and creamy
5. Gently fold in whipped cream
6. Break up the peanut brittle and add half into a food processor and crush until fine crumbs form.
7. Add this brittle into the bottom of 6 glasses.
8. Pipe the cheesecake mix evenly into the 6 glasses.
9. Add the chocolate sauce on top and decorate with the left over peanut brittle.

ENJOY!!!!!

Recipe; Matcha Green Tea Mini Cheesecakes

Yum Yum Yum!! What a delight it was to make these delicious cakes!

I love green tea, and who wouldn’t. It’s nutritionally beneficial, full of antioxidants and many many other things which can be researched using Google.

And cheesecakes, who doesn’t love a cheesecake? Now mix these two power house foods together and you have a match made in heaven! They even look amazing, so bright and vibrant in colour.

The biggest tip I’m sharing with you when making these Cheesecakes is do not over mix the cheesecake batter after adding the sugar. Over mixing the batter causes the incorporation of air. Yes cheesecakes are suppose to be light and fluffy however there is always a limit for everything. My cheesecakes did crack but after adding the strawberry decorations you could not even tell

Also the taste of the matcha is strong so if you don’t like the taste of green tea these are not the cheesecakes for you.

Matcha Green Tea Mini Cheesecake Recipe;

YouTube link;

https://youtu.be/d27A2O9o8i4

Ingredients:

Cheesecakes

• 135g (1 Cup) Crushed Oreo Cookies
• 2 Tbsp Butter, melted
• 2 x 250g Cream Cheese, room temperature
• 2/3 cup Caster Sugar
• 2 Eggs, room temperature
• 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
• 2 Tbsp Matcha Green Tea Powder

Decorations

• 12 Strawberries
• 100g White Chocolate, melted

Chocolate drizzle sauce

• 200g Dark chocolate, melted
• 25g Butter, melted
• 25g Brown sugar
• 125ml Cream

 

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180c (fan forced) and place bottoms into the Mini Cheesecake Cake tins.
2. Using a food processor or bar mixer blitz Oreos until they resemble cookie crumbs
3. Add the melted butter and mix to combine.
4. Divide the mixture equally into each cup and press down making sure the cookie crumbs are flat and even in each cup
5. Bake for 7 minutes
6. Reduce the oven to 160c
7. In a standard mixing bowl with the paddle attachment add the cream cheese and sugar.
8. Mix until smooth- this should remove any lumps and bumps the cream cheese might create
9. To the bowl add one egg at a time until just combined.
10. At this stage it is important not to over mix the cheesecake batter because it will cause them to crack when baking
11. Add 1  tsp vanilla extract, mix until just combined
12. Add 2 tbsp Match and mix until just combined **do not over mix** Gently mix cheesecake batter with a spatula or spoon to incorporate ingredients if you think you might have over mixed.
13. Scoop  ~ 1 tbsp of batter into each cup, filling to the top.
14. Bake for 20 minutes
15. The cheesecakes must be completely cooled before removing them from the tin. I recommend putting then in the fridge for a couple of hours
16. Melt the white chocolate in 30 second intervals (as shown in my Beetroot and Chocolate CupCake Tutorial on YouTube at 3:00min Beetroot and Chocolate CupCake Tutorial)
17. Dip each strawberry in the white chocolate and place on top of each cheesecake
18. For the Chocolate drizzle sauce combine all ingredients over a double boiler and mix until smooth. Similarly this can be done using a microwave in 30 second intervals.
19. Drizzle the chocolate over the strawberries