Frosted animal cracker cheesecake
Steps Making Recipes Frosted animal cracker cheesecake using 12 ingredients and 4 steps
Frosted animal cracker cheesecake - This frosted animal cracker cheesecake will bring back memories of grade school snack time with its bright colors and abundance. Are frosted animal crackers not the most indulgent and delicious snack? My only gripe is that these were the most vibrantly colored animal crackers I could find. This Frosted Animal Cookie Cheesecake recipe has circus animal cookies in the crust and throughout the cheesecake! For the filling, there's more animal crackers.
The flavor is so light and sweet, you'll make this your go-to cheesecake recipe in no time.
And the best part of all?
You can have Frosted animal cracker cheesecake using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients cook Frosted animal cracker cheesecake
- It's 4 1/2 cups animal cracker crumbs finely chopped.
- Prepare 1/4 cup melted butter.
- It's 24 ounces cream cheese softened.
- It's 1 cup sugar.
- It's 3 tablespoons flour.
- Prepare 1 cup sour cream.
- You need 1 tablespoon vanilla extract.
- You need 4 eggs.
- It's 6 ounces white chocolate morsels.
- It's 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream.
- It's Rainbow sprinkles.
- Prepare Whipped cream.
Frosted animal cracker cheesecake step by step
- FOR THE CRUST: Preheat oven 325 degrees. Grease springform pan. Combine 2 1/2 cups of animal cracker crumbs and 1/4 cup butter in a small bowl. Press in bottom of pan and bake 10 minutes. Set aside to cool then wrap the outside of the pan with foil..
- FOR THE CHEESECAKE FILLING: Reduce the heat to 300 degrees. In a large mixing bowl mix the cream cheese, sugar, and flour on low speed. Add the sour cream and vanilla still mixing on low speed. Add one egg at a time mixing on low speed. Stir in 1 1/4 cups of the frosted animal cracker crumbs. Stir slowly. Pour the cheesecake mixture over the crust. Place the foil wrapped springform pan in another bigger pan and fill with warm water half way up the sides of the springform pan..
- Bake for 1 and 1/2 hours. Turn the oven off and leave in the oven for another 30 minutes. Remove cheesecake from oven and let sit until cool. Refrigerate for 5 or 6 hours..
- TO MAKE THE GANACHE: Melt the white chocolate with the whipping cream. Let cool and color with pink food coloring. When cooled completely spread over the top of the cheesecake then sprinkle remaining animal cracker crumbs and rainbow sprinkles. Dollop whipped cream around edge of cake..
Frosted animal cracker cheesecake - This incredibly easy recipe for cheesecake utilizes a fan-favorite childhood snack, frosted animal crackers. Amazon's Choice for Frosted Animal Crackers. Animal cracker crust with pink and white chocolate zebra cheesecake, topped with whipped cream, animal crackers and rainbow sprinkles. Add the cream cheese, cream, vanilla and raspberry flavouring to the bowl of a food processor and mix until smooth. In honor of National Animal Cracker Day, munch on a bag (or two!) of this beloved kid-friendly snack. These circus-themed animal cookies are dipped in pink and white frosting and coated with colorful sprinkles. Run a paring knife around the edges of the cake. Thank you and good luck