You Can Enjoy Baking And Devouring A Turtle Cheesecake At Your Own Home

If you like chocolate, pecans and caramel then you will definitely love a turtle cheesecake. This is a great type of cheesecake that is very scrumptious and sweet. In fact you can even make one of these delicious cheesecakes yourself. Here is a process you can use to make your very own turtle cheesecake.

While you're at it, you may want to make two.  Enjoy one yourself and freeze the other as a gift.  Cheesecake is a great gift idea.

The first thing that you will need to do is to chop up some pecans. In order to get a proper turtle cheesecake ready you will need to get a cup of chopped pecans ready. After this you will need to toast these pecans for six minutes in an oven set at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Once the pecans are ready you will need to melt six tablespoons of unsalted butter in a small bowl.

After this you will need to gather some vanilla wafers and crush them into crumbs. You should have two cups of these crumbs ready for your turtle cheesecake. These crumbs should then be combined with the butter you have melted. This combination will be placed in the bottom of a springform pan that is nine inches round. After this the pan is placed on a cookie sheet and heated for ten minutes in an oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit and then cool it afterwards.

You will need to melt some caramels for your turtle cheesecake. Fourteen ounces of caramels should be used and then mixed into evaporated milk. For this part you will need five ounces of this milk. When this is finished you can stir the mixture and pour it on top of your newly formed crust. The pecans you handled during the first part of this process will then be added.

The next parts of preparation involve getting cream cheese and chocolate chips prepared. Twenty-four ounces of cream cheese should be added to the recipe. You also need half a cup of white sugar and one and a half teaspoons of vanilla extract.

Two eggs should then be added. The entire mixture should be mixed up to where it is smooth. Half a cup of chocolate chips will then need to be melted and mixed into the mixture.

The last part deals with getting your turtle cheesecake properly baked. The mixture will go into your pan to be cooked for forty minutes at 350 degrees. After you take it out you will need to keep it in a refrigerator overnight.  The next day it is ready to thoroughly enjoy.