Cheesecake with White Chocolate and Cherries

Almost any fruit can be added to cheesecake. I mix cream cheese with melted white chocolate and put cherries in the pie.

Ingredients

• For filling:
• White chocolate (broken into pieces) – 200 g
• Cream cheese – 680 g
• White sugar – 80 g
• Vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon
• Fat culinary cream – 200 g
• Medium eggs – 4 pcs.
• Fresh cherries pitted – 230 g
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• For the cake:
• Butter – 50 g
• Shortbread cookies – 250 g
• Liquid honey – 2 tbsp
• Butter for greasing the mold
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• For glaze:
• Fat sour cream – 250 g

Directions

1. Turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees. Grease a heat-resistant detachable mold with a diameter of 23 cm. Grind the cookies in a kitchen processor or place them in a bag and go over it with a rolling pin. In a saucepan, melt the butter and honey, then remove the saucepan from the stove and pour the crumbled cookies into it and mix well with the butter. Pour this mass into a prepared form and tamp the bread crumbs with your hands, forming a cake with high sides.
2. Put the cake pan in a preheated oven, bake at 150 degrees for about 5 minutes.
3. Melt the white chocolate in a water bath, then remove from the bath, stir and leave to cool at room temperature for 5 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, prepare the filling. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla, gradually add the cream, and then the eggs, beating well after each. Add melted chocolate to this mixture.
5. Put pitted cherries on the bottom of the cake base and pour over the cheese mass, put in the oven, and bake the cheesecake with white chocolate and cherries for 23-45 minutes, until a slight change in color. Then turn off the oven, open the door, and leave the cheesecake to cool in the oven for about 30-40 minutes. Then put the cherry cheesecake in the refrigerator overnight (at least 6 hours).
6. Before serving, draw a knife along the edges of the mold so that the cake comes out well from the sides. Free the cheesecake from the mold and transfer it to a platter. Pour sour cream over the finished cherry cheesecake and garnish with cherries.

Bon Appetit!