So when Tina of Mom's Crazy Cooking, our challenge hostess, announced cheesecake equally the challenge nutrient for this calendar month ... needless to country ... I was excited. With 1 caveat ... my husband, just that real week, had decided he wasn't going to eat saccharide for a while. Gasp! Horror!! How was I going to participate inwards a cheesecake challenge without my hubby to gustation exam as well as assistance me swallow the result??
But never fear, alongside a piffling chip of coaxing, hubby rose to the challenge! (no pun intended) ... He laid aside his saccharide ban to assistance out alongside the creation as well as testing for this fabulously fun challenge.
And, so, we're happy to convey y'all approximately other wonderful purpose for overly-ripe bananas ... Banana Split Cheesecake!
Creamy banana-y cheesecake filling inwards a vanilla wafer crust, covered alongside rich chocolate ganache, topped alongside whipped cream, chocolate spinkles, as well as a cherry ... yup, it's genuinely a banana split upward inwards cheesecake form. And it's oh as well as then good.
Banana Split Cheesecake
Source: Adapted from Fine Cooking
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
Crust:
1 1/2 c. vanilla wafer cookie crumbs
ii T. sugar
four T. butter, melted
Filling:
iii (8 oz.) packages cream cheese, at room temperature
1 c. mashed ripe bananas (3 bananas)
ii T. flour
1/8 tsp. salt
1 1/4 c. sugar
1 T. vanilla extract
four eggs, at room temperature
Ganache:
iii oz. semisweet chocolate, chopped
five T. butter
1 T. calorie-free corn syrup
Garnish:
Whipped cream
Chocolate sprinkles
Maraschino cherries
Directions
Prepare the Crust:
1. Stir together the vanilla wafer cookie crumbs as well as sugar. Mix inwards the melted butter until crumbs are moistened as well as clump together slightly.
2. Press into the bottom of a greased 9-inch springform pan. Bake at 375 degrees for most ix minutes, until simply slightly start to brown. Remove from oven as well as laid aside.
3. Reduce oven to 300 degrees.
Prepare the Filling:
4. Beat together the cream cheese, mashed banana, flour, as well as tabular array salt alongside an electrical mixer on medium speed until real shine as well as fluffy, most five minutes. Add the saccharide as well as proceed beating until good blended as well as smooth. Add vanilla as well as trounce until combined. Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating real briefly (just a few seconds) afterwards each addition. Pour the filling into the prepared crust as well as shine the top.
5. Bake at 300 degrees for most 55 to lx minutes. The edges should travel laid but the pump nonetheless await moist as well as jiggle (like Jell-o) when the pan is gently nudged.
6. Cool completely on a baking rack. Cover as well as refrigerate until good chilled, at to the lowest degree 8 hours as well as upward to ii or iii days.
Prepare the Ganache & Garnish:
7. In a modest bowl, melt together the chopped chocolate as well as butter - y'all tin purpose the plough over of a double boiler or the microwave on medium power. Add the calorie-free corn syrup as well as whisk until smooth. Pour over cheesecake as well as spread evenly. Chill until set.
8. When ready to serve, garnish each piece alongside a dollup of whipped cream, chocolate sprinkles, and a maraschino cherry.
Enjoy!
