Cookie Dough Cheesecake
By 54155
Published on 19 April 2022
This Cookie Dough Cheesecake is one of Simon’s most popular Sunday Brunch recipes, so he has decided to revisit it for Daily Brunch. Simon fills the cheesecake with dollops of delicious cookie dough, which make the resulting cheesecake even more indulgent. He serves the cheesecake with a fruity raspberry sauce to cut through the richness. Part of our Daily Brunch with Ocado recipe collection.Time and servings
1 hr 30 minsTotal time
8Servings
15 minsPrep time
1 hr 15 minsCooking time
Ingredients
- 300 g of crushed butter shortbread biscuits
- 3 vanilla pods, seeds scraped out and use 2 pods for the topping and 1 pod for the raspberry sauce
- 1 tbsp of hundreds-and-thousands
- 75 ml of melted butter
- 600 g of ricotta
- 300 g of full-fat cream cheese
- 7 eggs, 6 egg for the topping and 1 egg yolk for the cookie dough
- 450 g of caster sugar, 150g for the topping, 100g for the cookie dough, 200g for the raspberry sauce
- 200 g of plain flour
- 50 g of chocolate chips
- 250 g of raspberries
- 175 g of butter
Method
Step 1
To make the base, crush the biscuits and then stir in the butter. Press into a 10in spring-form tin, greased and lined with greaseproof paper.Step 2
To make the topping, blitz together the ricotta, cream cheese, vanilla, eggs and sugar until smooth.Step 3
Make the cookie dough by creaming the butter and sugar, then adding the egg yolk. Fold in the flour, followed by the chocolate chips and finally the hundreds-and-thousands.Step 4
Break the dough into pieces and fold into the topping mix.Step 5
Spoon the topping onto the base, then bake at 150˚C for about 1 hour 15 minutes. Allow to cool.Step 6
To make the sauce, boil the caster sugar, water and vanilla until the sugar dissolves and the mixture turns syrupy. Leave to cool, then add the raspberries and purée the mixture. Strain the sauce through a fine sieve to catch the seeds.Step 7
Serve a wedge of cheesecake with raspberry sauce drizzled over the top.