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Dulce de Leche Banoffee Cheesecake with Greek Yoghurt

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I’ve been avoiding posting desserts the past month, although I have so many recipes I want to post.  It’s so hard to resist when you are cutting down the calories.

I made this dessert early June, when my son visited from Geneva.  I had made Dulce de Leche for the second time and I was looking for recipes to use it.   I found this recipe at Delia Online but as usual I did not have most of the ingredients, such as pecans, curd cheese, fromage frais or golden syrup, so I made a few changes.   I did not make  the sauce at all but I just mixed some dulce de leche with cream, just enough to make it runny like a sauce.

Dulce de Leche Banoffee Cheesecake with Greek Yoghurt – Recipe by Ivy, adapted from Delia Online.

Preparation time: 45 minutes

Cooking time:65 minutes covered plus 5 minutes uncovered

Serves:10

Ingredients:

For crust:

200

Grams

Chocolate wafer biscuits

½

Cup

Roasted hazelnuts

50

Grams

Butter or margarine at room temperature

Cream cheese-yoghurt filling:

4

eggs

1

Cup

sugar

600

Grams

Philadelphia cheese

500

grams

Greek Yoghurt

1

Tsp

Vanilla essence

3

medium

Bananas, mashed

For the sauce:

½

can

Dulce de leche

A few

Tbsp

Light cream

For the topping:

3

Medium-size

Ripe bananas

2

Tbsp

Lemon juice

Dark chocolate shavings

1

Cup

Roasted Walnuts

Directions:

1.

Combine crumbs, hazelnuts and butter, in a 28 cm spring form tin.

2.

Mash the bananas in a food processor.

3.

Beat eggs, sugar and vanilla essence and then add cheese, yoghurt and bananas andmix.

4.

Empty cream cheese mixture on base and cover with aluminum foil.

5.

Preheat oven at 180 degrees C and put the cheesecake in another tin with water.Put in the oven and bake for about one hour, or until just set. Allow to cool completely, then cover again with aluminum foil and place in the refrigerator and chill for at least an hour.

6.

Carefully remove the cheesecake from the tin and place on a serving plate, using a knife to loosen the cake base from the bottom of the tin.

7.

When you are ready to assemble the cheesecake put the 2 tablespoons of lemon juice into a bowl. Slice the bananas (about ½ cm) and gently toss them around to get an even coating of juice. Spread the dulce de leche on top of the cake, decorate with the bananas, walnuts and chocolate.

8.

Serve with some extra sauce on top.



We will be away for the whole of August but as we are not going very far away from Athens we will be coming a few times back for some things we have to take care of here in Athens.    I have programmed a few posts which will be posted during August but you will not be seeing the comments immediately but will post them when we visit and will try and catch up with your posts as well.

Fianlly, Shanthi, of Shanthi Krishnakumar’s Cookbook, has passed the Kreativ Blogger Award.   Thank you very much Shanthi.

Have a nice Summer!!!

Other related posts:

No Machine Ice Cream with Dulce de leche

Chestnut, Cream Cheese, Chocolate and Dulce de Leche Gateau

How to make Dulce de Leche

 

Kopiaste and Kali Orexi,

About Ivy Liacopoulou

Ivy Liacopoulou grew up in Limassol, Cyprus, a beautiful island in the eastern Mediterranean, where her passion for cooking began as a child, helping her mother in the kitchen. Ivy belongs to a new generation of home cooks who loves to experiment and create new recipes of her own. She is the author of two cookbooks and she owns and manages Cooking Classes, in Nafplio, Peloponnese.

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  4. Rosa

    OMG, that beautiful and smooth cheesecake looks so “dirty”!!! A luscious dessert item!

    Cheers,

    Rosa

  6. elly

    Ivy this looks absolutely decadent. Every ingredient I read, my mouth watered – hazelnuts? Yogurt? Dulce de leche? Yum!

  8. Jen of a2eatwrite

    Have a lovely vacation, Ivy! Beautiful cheesecake. I’d need to pass on this right now, too, as, like you, I’m trying to lose some weight. I may bookmark it for a special occasion, though – it has many of my favorite ingredients.

  10. Peter

    I like the presence of yogurt here – that will cut the sweetness of banana and dulce de leche. How you manged to have leftover Dulce de Leche is beyond me…I could eat it alone!

  11. Niki

    I’ve never heard the term Banoffee, what does it mean?

    And this looks heavenly! you know my obsession w/ cheesecakes, so this is definitely on my list!!!

  12. Soma

    I love the hazelnuts the best here;-) looks gorgeous! what does banoffee mean (making me think of banana & coffee , but it definitely is not;-) )

  13. Ivy

    Thank you for your lovely comments and for your wishes.

    Sorry for not explaining what banoffee means. I thought that everybody knew what it is. Banoffee (from the words banana and toffee) is an English pie (also spelled banoffi, or banoffy) made from bananas, cream and dulce de leche, either on a pastry base or one made from crumbled biscuits.

  17. Jeena

    Wow Ivy this looks amazing! I love that last picture of the big creamy slice – really really fabulous and great for your son visiting he must have felt very special getting a dessert like this. 🙂

  19. Claudia

    Post us pictures of your vacation when you return! I too made dulce de leche in June and combined it with bananas and macadamia nuts, but for ice cream (posted June 13). Your cheese cake sounds like perfection with the addition of chocolate. Since I have the remaining dulce waiting in my fridge….

  25. Aparna

    Looks delicious, Ivy. I’ve made a banoffee pie before and love the taste of caramelised milk with banana.

  28. Kevin

    That pie looks so good! Just look at the dulce de leche dripping down the side.

  34. Bunny

    Ivy it’s beautiful!! I love all the flavors going. You have a talent for making beautiful desserts!

  36. Tim

    I’m not the biggest banana fan in the world, but I would eat this cake 10 times over. Wow does it look good!

  37. arfi

    this is just so tempting, Ivy. with the combination of caramel, banana and chocolate, somebody will miss something if she/he does not eat this hehehe… rock on, buddy!

  40. Bobby

    Yum, I love cheesecake of all types. This looks so good, I bet it is fantastic with the greek yogurt.

  41. Vij

    Dear Ivy
    Yummy treat! looks so yummy. Been ages since I visited ur (anyother) blog. How have you been?

    Takecare
    Cheers
    Vij

  42. Cynthia

    Congrats on your award dear one and I love the topping for that cake! I want to be a kid and pick off the topping, eat it and leave the cake (lol)

  44. Daniel

    Hey Ivy!

    That looks fantastic! My wife (Corinne) would absolutely die for it! I think im going to have to surprise her and make it for her!

  46. Rosie

    YES – YES Ivy I’m here after all this time of not getting on your blog!! This looks absolutely fantastic! Ooooh I would love to try a slice as my mouth-waters here 😀

  47. Lubna Karim

    It’s been long….no updates from u so thought of dropping by…..how r u dear? Is everything fine….

  49. Heni

    Waw I have been away and missed so many wonderful dishes Ivy! I love this cheesecake – it’s calling to me! I am going to make this!

  51. Aparna Prabhu

    I m new to this space…..I just ate Haggen Daszz dulce de leche ice cream yest……nd it was divine i m sure this tasted awesome….i must try it once 🙂

  52. Alma Pretorius

    I've found a wonderful way of trying out decadent recipes, but not gaining weight … Although I walk 24 km/week at the gym, I have these coffee friends and we meet up 3 times a week after Tai Chi class. So I try a recipe, have a taste, take photo's and the rest I give to them. Clear conscience all the way.

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