Brace yourselves, cheesecake aficionados! The cheesecake you have always known and loved is about to become a distant memory as you try-out these flavorful combinations you may have never tasted before.
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Find out what to pair with cheesecake, because for a real treat you need both food and drink that match perfectly together.
Savory cheesecakes and the actual recipes are not included, only some ideas and variations of the classic New York cheesecake, also what drink to serve with each and the main ingredients for making the recipe.
As you’ll soon see, you only need to stretch as far out as the neighborhood store, or who knows, you may already have the ingredients in your fridge! Saved the best for last!
Honey cheesecake
Feta is savory cheese for sure, however feta and honey combination make a deliciously sweet cheesecake and is a variation on the standard recipe that few people have tried.
This honey cheesecake is a signature dessert by Honey & Co. in London and is made on a kadaif pastry base.
- Ingredients: cream cheese (can be Philadelphia or any good quality full fat cream cheese), extra thick double cream, creamy feta cheese, honey, vanilla pods, kadaif pastry.
- Serve with Vidal ice wine.
Citrus cheesecake
This can be lemon cheesecake, orange cheesecake or triple-citrus cheesecake made with lemon, lime and orange juice.
A refreshing dessert, the citrus cheesecake is the perfect balance between rich and flavorful, and creamy and zesty. Make it on a water bath for a more creamy texture and a crack-free top.
- Ingredients: softened cream cheese, large eggs, lemon zest plus lemon juice, heavy cream, lemon curd, and cream-filled lemon or orange sandwich cookies for making the base.
- Serve with prosecco, preferably extra dry if the citrusy flavor is not too strong. Ice wine cocktail is a good alternative too.
Any berry cheesecake
Raspberry cheesecake, strawberry cheesecake or your choice of berry will make dreamy American-style cheesecake, even the no bake version of it.
In fact, one of the most popular springtime treats is this cheesecake version of berry bliss. You can include the berries (even frozen ones) in the cream cheese blend or simply use them as topping. Feel free to use cherries too.
- Ingredients: softened cream cheese spread, fresh or frozen berries (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries), whipped cream, graham crumbs and butter for making the base.
- Serve with fruit flavored beer such as cherry beer.
Toffee cheesecake
The toffee cheesecake goes alongside the maple-flavored cheesecake and the caramel cheesecake and is to-try at least once in this lifetime.
Many recipes use English toffee bits and caramel topping to create this decadent dessert, an all-time favorite and some say the best cheesecake variation ever.
- Ingredients: brown sugar, vanilla extract, milk chocolate English toffee bits, softened cream cheese, sour cream, eggs, graham cracker crumbs.
- Serve with Liquor Muscat, Australia’s most celebrated and world-famous fortified wine.
Nutella cheesecake
Whether you bake it or make it no-bake, this Nutella cheesecake is thick and silky smooth and deadly delicious. It is loaded with Nutella and has a Nutella ganache topping.
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To make it even more of an adventure, decorate with Ferrero Rocher and prepare for the trip of a lifetime!
- Ingredients: 400 grams Nutella at room temperature, chopped roasted hazelnuts, cream cheese, vanilla extract, hazelnut liquor (optional), semisweet chocolate chips and heavy cream for topping, Ferrero Rocher candies, full fat cream cheese, whipping cream.
- Serve with Oloroso Sherry that is a variety of fortified wine, dry and flavorful.