This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was chosen by Anne Strawberry. You can view the entire recipe on Anne’s site or buy purchasing the book, Baking: From My Home to Yours
Dorie includes an extensive area for playing around with this cheesecake, so I decided to do some playing around of my own and combined Dorie’s recipe and this intriguing Red Velvet Cheesecake recipe from RecipeGirl.com to make a beautiful Red Velvet Cheesecake for our Christmas Eve celebration.
The first step was to crush Oreo cookies in the food processor and combine with melted butter to make the chocolate crumb crust! Yum!
Then I pulled out my trusty mixer and made the cheesecake batter. And included 2 full bottles of red food coloring to give it that gorgeous red hue. (Still looks a little pink doesn’t it? I was out of food coloring and I wasn’t going to go buy more…)
I poured the batter on top of my chocolate crumb crust and prepared to put my springform pan into a water bath to bake.
After the cheesecake was baked I let it setup overnight in the fridge. When I finally released the sides of the pan it looked amazing.
I added a cream cheese frosting — which you might think would be too much for a cheesecake, but was really amazing! And then cut a few branches off of one of our holly bushes outside to give the cheesecake a festive holiday look.
This cheesecake was very good and something that I would definitely consider making again for a special occasion. I think it would be a pretty cheesecake for Valentine’s Day with heart shaped candies sprinkled on top.
And if you can’t tell from the picture, Bo was also a big fan!
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That looks so delicious. If you want a real RED red you can try gel or powdered food colouring it comes up much brighter. That looks really nice though.
Gorgeous job! Did it taste very red velvety?
Brilliant!
It looks fabulous.
Looks like it turned out wonderful!
Beryl,
Yes, it did taste red velvety. Maybe even better than traditional red velvet cake because it was moist and the cream cheese gave it a very velvety texture!
Jamie
Great idea! Glad it was a hit with your family!
Beautiful! I adore Red Velvet Cake. Excellent job!
WOW! WOW! WOW! I know it’s over used… but I can’t help it, if I were to make this cake again which I will because I thought it was one of the best… without a doubt, I’m making it just like yours! It’s simply too beautiful! WOW! Amazing, Jamie!
Super festive. I hadn’t seen a Red Velvet version of cheesecake until earlier this month on Peabody’s blog. Maybe for Valentines’s Day now?
After seeing Red Velvet Cheesecake on so many blogs lately, I really want to try it. The color of yours is beautiful!
Wow what a festive color! Your cheesecake looks delicious!
Bo just looks too adorable, and red velvet cheesecake sounds fantastic. Beautiful job!
That cake looks very tasty!
Wow, it’s perfect for Christmas! Great idea 🙂