Dulce De Leche Cheesecake and Milk Almond Chocolates

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If you’re in the mood for a dessert that’s the perfect balance of creamy, sweet, and indulgent, then this Dulce de Leche Cheesecake with Milk Almond Chocolates is the answer to your cravings.

This recipe combines the rich flavors of dulce de leche, the smoothness of cream cheese, and the delightful crunch of milk chocolate almonds to create a mouthwatering dessert that will leave your taste buds singing.

Whether it’s for a special occasion or just a sweet treat to enjoy with loved ones, this cheesecake is sure to be a hit. So, let’s get started on this delightful culinary adventure!

Cheesecake is one of our favourite desserts.

If you ask me which kind do I prefer, the baked one or the no bake one, it’s very difficult to reply because I like both but if I were to chose only one, I would say the baked one.

Today it’ s my eldest son’s birthday.  He is on holidays here in Athens for a few weeks, as he is now working in Cyprus and he had arranged his leave to be here during his birthday.

Since he loves dulce de leche, I made this cheesecake for him.  Dulce de Leche, which is a caramel sauce, popular in South America, flavours the cream cheese filling, making it so velvety and creamy.

I’ve mentioned this many times in my posts that I don’t like my desserts to be overly sweet.  When you beat the cream cheese, dulce de leche and Greek yoghurt, before adding the eggs, taste it. 

If you want it sweeter, you can add some brown sugar, honey or grape or carob syrup, which will even make it darker.

The whipped cream was slighly sweetened in order to balance the sweetness of the remaining dessert.  If you like it sweeter, you can add more icing sugar.

For the decoration on top but also inside, I added some milk almond chocolates . I had some leftover dulce from another recipe and used that for decoration as well. 

If you don’t have any, it’s not worth opening another can or jar just for the decoration. 

You can use nutella, chocolate ganache, petimezi (grape syrup), carob syrup, threpsini (grape cream) or make caramel from scratch, which we mix with the caramel. 

See how you can make it here (see caramel decoration).   Let it cool for a few minutes and then add the whipped cream.

Ingredients needed to make the Dulce de Leche Cheesecake:

For the Crust:

• Graham Crackers or Digestive biscuit crumbs
• Butter
• Milk chocolate almonds

Dulce de Leche filling:

• Dulce de leche
• Cream cheese
• Greek yoghurt
• Petimezi (condensed grape syrup)
• Eggs
• Corn flour (starch)
• Milk chocolate almonds, ground

For decoration:

• Heavy cream
• Icing sugar
• Vanilla essence or vanillin

Additional ingredients:

• Dulce de leche
• Whipped cream
• Milk chocolate almonds

How to make the Dulce de Leche Cheesecake:

1. Melt the butter in the microwave on low, a minute each time or in a frying pan until it starts melting and turn off the heat.
2. Put the biscuits in a food processor and powder.
3. Put it in a bowl.
4. Powder the milk chocolate almonds as well and add them to the other crumbs.
5. Add the butter and mix until well combined.
6. Cover the base of a 28 cm spring form pan with aluminium foil.
7. Transfer the biscuit mixture in the baking tin and press it with a spoon into the bottom and sides of the pan. (see video).
8. Refrigerate until you prepare the cream.
9. Preheat oven to 180°C.

Directions for the filling:

1. Empty the cream cheese, dulce de leche and Greek yoghurt in a bowl.  Using a hand mixer whip the cream until all the ingredients are combined.
2. Add the petimezi and mix.
3. Add the eggs one at a time and beat until combined.
4. Finally add the corn flour and continue mixing until combined.
5. Pour the mixture over the biscuit base and add the milk almond chocolates scattered all over the cream.
6. Cover the pan with aluminium foil
7. Put the spring form pan in a larger baking tin and add hot water untill it reaches the middle.
8. Bake for about 45 minutes.  Remove the aluminium foil and continue baking for 10 – 15 more minutes uncovered.  The cheesecake will still be wobbly but it will set in the refrigerator.
9. Set aside until it cools completely.
10. Beat the heavy cream with the sugar and vanillin until peaks form.
11. Decorate the cheesecake using a piping bag.  At this stage the cheesecake is ready and you can serve it with caramel sauce on top.
12. Alternatively reserve 1 tbsp whipped cream in which you dilute the dulce de leche to make it into a cream.
13. Put this cream in a piping bag and make horizontal lines.  Using the back side of a skewer or the back side of a fork, make horizontal lines, alternating from left to right and right to left.
14. Cut the almond chocolates in the middle.  If any break, pound them and scatter them on the top.  Decorate with the chocolate halves, almond facing up.
15. Refrigerate for a few hours before removing the ring of the spring form pan.
16. Serve with additional caramel syrup (optional).

Kopiaste and Kali Orexi!

 

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