Recipe: No Bake Peppermint Cheesecake
“Recipe adapted from Cooking Classy”
Title: No Bake Peppermint Cheesecake
Makes: 6 mini cheesecakes
Ingredients:
- 12 chocolate sandwich cookies
- 2 tbsp butter
- 4 oz white baking chips
- 1 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream
- 8 tbsp powdered sugar (confectioners sugar)
- 10 oz cream cheese
- 1/2 tsp peppermint extract
- Red food dye
- 2 piping bags
Steps:
- Pour sandwich cookies into a food processor
- Pulse until fine
- Add Butter and pulse again
- Put into cups dividing evenly
- Melt white chocolate in microwave: staring at 30 second increments then set aside
- Whip whipping cream until soft peaks form
- Add 3 tbsp of sugar and whip until stiff peaks form then let rest in fridge
- Whip cream cheese until soft and fluffy
- Mix in the rest of the powdered sugar and the peppermint extract
- Stir in white chocolate
- Separate into 2 bowls
- Dye one red
- Move into piping bags and pep into cups
- Top with whipped cream
- Let rest for 2 hours and Enjoy!
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Meet Ava. Ava enjoys playing ice hockey, doing CrossFit, baking and journalism. She has been on staff for three years and is now an Editor-In-Chief for The Communicator Magazine. She can talk about fonts forever and firmly believes that Helvetica Neue is superior to everything else. When not working on the Communicator or at practice, Ava spends the majority of her time in the hot tub in her backyard. A few of her favorite things include Diet Coke, LuluLemon and her overweight puggle named Tanner.
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