White Chocolate and Passion Fruit Cheesecake

Name: White Chocolate and Passion Fruit Cheesecake
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 Tbsps butter, melted; 227 grams package cream cheese, softened; 3 egg whites; 3 egg yolks; 118 milliliters half-and-half or light cream; 227 grams mascarpone cheese; 6 passion fruit, pulp removed; 118 milliliters passion fruit pulp; 59 milliliters superfine sugar; 296 milliliters tea biscuits, crushed; 113 grams white chocolate, chopped

White Chocolate and Passion Fruit Cheesecake requires around 1 hour and 30 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 673 calories, 12g of protein, and 49g of fat. If you have tea biscuits, mascarpone cheese, passion fruit, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Apricot, Passion Fruit And White Chocolate Opera, Passion fruit yoghurt cake with White chocolate drizzle, and White Chocolate Passion Fruit Turnovers with Blueberry-Mint Sauce and Coconut Cream.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease an 8 inch springform pan with 1 tablespoon melted butter.

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Butter

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Springform Pan

Oven

In a medium bowl, mix together biscuit crumbs and 4 tablespoons melted butter. Press into the bottom of springform pan, and smooth with the back of a spoon; set aside in the refrigerator to firm up.

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Biscuits

Butter

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Springform Pan

Bowl

Place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl.

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Chocolate

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Bowl

Heat half-and-half to a simmer in a small saucepan; pour over white chocolate. Set aside for 1 minute, then stir until smooth; set aside.

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White Chocolate

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Sauce Pan

In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth.

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Cream Cheese

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Bowl

Mix in mascarpone cheese, sugar, and egg yolks. Stir in white chocolate mixture and 1/2 cup passion fruit pulp. In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Fold 1/3 of the whites into the batter very thoroughly, then quickly fold in remaining whites until no streaks remain.

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Mascarpone

White Chocolate

Passion Fruit

Egg Whites

Egg Yolk

Sugar

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Mixing Bowl

Pour batter into prepared pan.

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Frying Pan

Place the cake pan on a baking sheet

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Baking Sheet

Cake Form

Bake for 1 1/4 hours in the preheated oven, or until just set in the center when shaken lightly. Turn off the oven, and leave the cheesecake in the oven with the door ajar for 2 to 3 hours, or until cool. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

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Oven

Before serving, remove from pan, and let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Dust with confectioners' sugar, and serve with pulp from 6 passion fruit.

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Powdered Sugar