Salted Caramel Cheesecake

17/11/2023

I can offer you a recipe for a delicious salted caramel cheesecake. Here’s how you can prepare it, with an Italian twist that will add a pinch of originality to your dessert.

Ingredients

250 g of dry biscuits (such as Digestive or butter cookies)
100 g of melted butter
500 g of cream cheese (like Philadelphia)
120 g of powdered sugar
300 ml of fresh cream
1 packet of vanillin or the seeds from 1 vanilla pod
Salted caramel, ready-made or homemade
Coarse sea salt (optional, for garnish)

Preparation

Finely grind the biscuits in a food processor or by placing them in a bag and rolling them with a rolling pin. Mix the ground biscuits with the melted butter until you have a homogeneous mixture.
Line the bottom of a springform pan (preferably 22-24 cm in diameter) with parchment paper and press the biscuit mixture into the bottom to create the base. Refrigerate to cool for at least 30 minutes.
In the meantime, in a bowl, mix the cream cheese with powdered sugar and vanillin (or vanilla seeds) until you have a smooth and homogeneous mixture.
In another bowl, whip the cream until it becomes firm, then gently fold it into the cream cheese mixture, trying not to deflate it.
Pour the resulting cream over the biscuit base and level the surface with a spatula. Let it cool in the fridge for at least 4 hours, or even better, overnight.
Before serving, pour over the salted caramel and, if you like, a sprinkle of coarse sea salt flakes to enhance the contrast with the sweetness.

If you wish to make the salted caramel at home, you can slowly dissolve sugar in a saucepan until it becomes golden, add butter and a pinch of salt and then, off the heat, pour in the fresh cream, stirring constantly. Let it cool before using.

Curiosity

Salted caramel is a French preparation, known as “Caramel au beurre salé”, typical of Brittany. The addition of sea salt enhances the sweetness of the caramel, creating a flavor contrast that perfectly matches the creaminess of the cheesecake.