Flavor #10 - Strawberry Cheesecake

I have a number of strawberry recipes that I will parade out over time, but Strawberry Cheesecake was a first for me. After having seen it online along with another pie-related flavor, I figured I would give it a try.

Not bad for the first time out although when I do this again, I will be altering some of the recipe.

1 1/2 Cups Heavy Cream

1 1/2 Cups Milk

3/4 Cups Sugar

3 Egg Yolks

4 oz. Cream Cheese

10 Strawberries

4 Graham Crackers

1 Teaspoon Vanilla

This was a multi-step process. Heat the cream and milk without coming to a boil while combining the egg yolk, cream cheese and sugar in a separate bowl. After mixing the latter three ingredients, stir in the heated milk and cream slowly so to not cook the eggs. Then reheat the mix to thicken it up. Meanwhile, puree six strawberries and chop the other four while also pulverizing the graham crackers. One the mix is thickened to where it will stick to a spoon, cool it down and add the strawberry puree. Throw it all in the fridge to cool to about 40° then throw it all into the machine adding the chopped strawberries and the graham crackers when transferring the ice cream into the container.

It came out as expected and tasted great. Next time I may add a little more cream cheese, not crush the graham crackers as much and use a different technique when adding the strawberries as the chopped ones came out very frosty. I'll share the other technique in a later post on Strawberry Ice Cream. The great thing about this recipe is you can taste the cheese cake right away while having the lingering strawberry aftertaste!

Less than a month into the challenge and I am already 1/10th of the way there.

Enjoy