Cake Recipes
Butter Rum Cheesecake
Yield: 12 to 18 slices
Ingredients
Vanilla Cookie Crust
- 11 vanilla sandwich cream cookies, crushed
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
Butter Rum Filling
- 24 ounces cream cheese
- 2/3 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup dark corn syrup
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1/4 cup whipping cream
- 5 teaspoons cornstarch
- 4 eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon DARK rum
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
Vanilla Cookie Crust
- In a small bowl stir together crushed cookies and melted butter until well combined. Press crumb mixture evenly onto the bottom of a greased 9 inch springform pan.
Butter Rum Filling
- In a large bowl combine cream cheese, brown sugar, corn syrup, butter, whipping cream and cornstarch. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Add eggs and egg yolk, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in rum and vanilla extract.
- Pour the cream cheese mixture over the crust.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes.
- Lower the temperature to 200 degrees F
and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until the center no longer looks wet or shiny.
- Remove the cake from the oven and run a knife around the inside edge of the pan.
- Chill, uncovered, overnight.