Blackberry Cheesecake Squares

Name: Blackberry Cheesecake Squares
Prep time: 4 h 5 min
Cook time: 4 h 5 min
Total time: 4 h 5 min
Yield: 15
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 576 grams blackberries; 114 grams stick butter, melted; 1 Tbsp cornstarch; 680 grams packages cream cheese; 4 eggs; 50 grams pecans; 115 milliliters sour cream; 200 grams sugar; 300 grams sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla; 312 grams box vanilla wafers

Blackberry Cheesecake Squares requires around 4 hours and 5 minutes from start to finish. This dessert has 512 calories, 6g of protein, and 31g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 15. This recipe from Foodnetwork requires eggs, vanilla, pecans, and cream cheese. It is a good option if you're following a lacto ovo vegetarian diet. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Blackberry Cheesecake Squares, White Chocolate Blackberry Cheesecake With Blackberry Sauce, and Blackberry Bakewell squares.

Instructions

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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

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Oven

For the crust: Line a 9-by-13-inch rectangular baking pan with foil and spray with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

Crust

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Baking Pan

Aluminum Foil

Place the vanilla wafers and pecans into the bowl of a food processor and pulse until the mixture becomes crumbs.

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Vanilla Wafer Cookies

Pecans

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Food Processor

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Add the melted butter and pulse again until combined.

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Butter

Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and press the crumbs into the bottom of the pan. (If they come up the sides, that's okay!)

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Frying Pan

For the filling: Beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth.

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Cream Cheese

Vanilla

Sugar

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Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.

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Egg

Add the sour cream and mix again.

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Sour Cream

Pour the filling into the crust, smooth the top and bake for 50 minutes. Turn off the oven, open the oven door and allow the pan to sit in the open oven for 15 minutes.

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Crust

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Remove and set aside to cool.

Add the blackberries, sugar and 1/4 cup water to a saucepan or skillet. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat and cook until the juices thicken slightly, 4 to 5 minutes.

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Blackberries

Sugar

Water

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In a small bowl, make a slurry by stirring together the cornstarch and 2 tablespoons water until smooth.

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Corn Starch

Water

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Bowl

Add the slurry to the berries, return to the boil and cook for another 1 to 2 minutes. Turn off the heat and cool the mixture.

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Berries

Pour the blackberries over the cheesecake and place the pan into the fridge to cool and set for at least 2 hours (several hours is better).

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Blackberries

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When ready to serve, remove the cheesecake from the pan by lifting the edges of the foil. Slice into 15 pieces with a long serrated knife.

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Ingredients

Servings:

576grams

blackberries 114grams

stick butter, melted 1Tbsp

cornstarch 680grams

packages cream cheese 4

eggs 50grams

pecans 115milliliters

Recommended wine: Late Harvest Riesling, Lambrusco Dolce, Sauternes

Cheesecake works really well with Late Harvest Riesling, Lambrusco Dolce, and Sauternes. White dessert wines are a safe pick for cheesecake (without chocolate), but a sweet lambrusco will be so good with classic strawberry cheesecake. The Louis Roederer Cristal Brut with a 4.6 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 299 dollars per bottle.

Louis Roederer Cristal Brut

Cristal, the jewel and tête de cuvée of Champagne Louis Roederer, was created in 1876 for the Tsar Alexander II of Russia. It remains faithful to its origin, inspired by elegance and purity. Cristal is produced with regimented standards of winemaking that require a rigorous selection of crus, vintages, grapes, and wine.Cristal is produced using only the finest vintages from crus guaranteed to originate from the Louis Roederer vineyard. All the exceptional characteristics of the 2002 vintage have literally been captured in this Cristal 2002, which is generous and lush, revealing perfect balance between concentration and finesse, freshness and vinosity, intensity and refinement. In three words: proud, rich and luxurious.Cristal 2002 is brilliant yellow with light amber highlights and has a beautiful mousse with fine cordon of persistent and regular bubbles. The nose is intense and delicate, revealing a clean and well-blended mixture of flavors of honey, cocoa, lightly toasted hazelnuts, candied citrus fruit. A savory explosion of ripe fruit on the attack, the wine reveals red fruit, white chocolate, caramel and Danish pastry, typical of Cristal. Its silky, concentrated texture relies on its intense, powerful and vinous structure, but maintains refinement. The palate builds up to attain a delicious sensation of well-blended harmony of flavors. A fresh finish with a hint of bitterness makes it almost crunchy.