
How To Make White Chocolate Blueberry Cheesecake
This silky smooth blueberry cheesecake is filled with rich white chocolate and cream cheese, and a swirl of tart blueberry sauce, for an elegant dessert.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1graham cracker crust
For Blueberry Sauce:
- 1tbspgranulated sugar
- 1½tspcornstarch
- ½cupwater,cold
- 1½cupsblueberries,fresh or frozen
- 2tsplemon juice
For Cheesecake:
- 12ozcream cheese,(1½ package), softened
- â…“cupgranulated sugar
- 1egg
- 1egg white
- 1tspvanilla extract
- ½tbsplemon juice
- 1cupwhite chocolate chips,(vanilla chips)
- ¼cupheavy whipping cream
Instructions
Blueberry Sauce:
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Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
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In a small saucepan, whisk together the sugar and cornstarch until well blended. Stir in the cold water, blueberries and lemon juice.
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Cook over medium heat, whisking often, until the mixture begins to boil lightly. Boil for 30 seconds whisking constantly.
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Remove from heat and force the mixture through a fine mesh strainer into a bowl. Set mixture aside.
Cheesecake:
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In a large mixing bowl, with an electric mixer, beat together cream cheese and granulated sugar for 1 minute until fluffy. Mix in the egg and egg white. Add the vanilla and lemon juice. Set mixture aside.
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Combine the white chocolate chips and cream in a microwave-safe bowl, then microwave mixture on 50% power in 30 seconds intervals, stirring after each interval until chocolate is melted and smooth. Add melted chocolate mixture to cream cheese mixture, then blend until smooth.
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Pour â…” cup cheesecake mixture into the graham cracker crust and spread evenly over bottom. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons of blueberry sauce. Slowly ladle remaining cheesecake mixture over the drizzled blueberry sauce, covering all of the blueberry sauce.
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Carefully jiggle the pan to even out the top. Drizzle 1½ to 2 tablespoons of blueberry sauce over top. Reserve the remaining blueberry sauce in refrigerator. Take a knife and swirl it through the cheesecake to marble the blueberry sauce.
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Bake in center of the oven for 40 minutes, then turn oven off and leave the cheesecake in the oven for 5 more minutes.
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Remove from the oven and allow to cool, then refrigerate cheesecake for 6 hours, until set.
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Serve slices with remaining blueberry sauce, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 467.66kcal
- Fat:Â 30.43g
- Saturated Fat:Â 15.36g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.00g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 10.48g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 1.45g
- Carbohydrates:Â 43.89g
- Fiber:Â 1.15g
- Sugar:Â 31.06g
- Protein:Â 6.34g
- Cholesterol:Â 81.42mg
- Sodium:Â 299.10mg
- Calcium:Â 101.08mg
- Potassium:Â 188.33mg
- Iron:Â 0.99mg
- Vitamin A: 197.55µg
- Vitamin C:Â 3.70mg
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