Red Velvet Cheesecake

This Red Velvet Cheesecake recipe is a scrumptious and creamy cheesecake with an Oreo Crust. It’s lined with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting too. Watch the video displaying you methods to make this cheesecake, then scroll to the underside of this put up and print out the recipe so you may make it at residence!

You’re most likely aware of the basic red velvet cake, which has cream cheese frosting. Or perhaps you’ve tried my recipe for my highly regarded red Velvet Cheesecake Cake! Nicely, this red velvet cheesecake is frosted with an excellent, thick layer of cream cheese frosting too. Does that make it wealthy and decadent? Sure, it does! Cheesecake is all the time a mega sweet-treat, and this one is excessive. I’ve made it a couple of occasions, and it’s all the time a giant hit with cheesecake (and red velvet) lovers!

The Oreo crust is a pleasant pairing. Use the entire Oreo for the crust (cream and all). You'll be able to select to make a basic graham cracker crust, if you happen to’d like. Or you should use chocolate graham crackers for the crust as an alternative.

This red Velvet Cheesecake is such a reasonably cheesecake to make for the vacations. It’s good for Christmas as a result of I like that it has all the “Santa” colours. It’s a festive one for New 12 months’s Eve. And it’s all the time successful for Valentine’s Day too.

How do you make red Velvet Cheesecake?

First you’ll make the Oreo crust. It’s a easy trio of Oreos which were crushed into crumbs mixed with melted butter and sugar. A basic 9-inch springform pan is used for this recipe, so the Oreo crust is simply pressed into the underside of the pan. The crust does NOT have to be baked.

The filling is subsequent. It’s a basic cheesecake made with cream cheese, sugar, eggs, bitter cream and vanilla. However to show it right into a red velvet cheesecake, you’ll add unsweetened cocoa, buttermilk, white vinegar and red meals coloring. In the event you want to make use of gel paste as an alternative of red meals coloring, simply add within the red gel paste till you get a pleasant, deep red hue to the cheesecake batter. The batter is then scraped into the pan on prime of the Oreo crust.

Then it’s prepared for the oven!

Do you need to bake this cheesecake in a water bathtub?

In the event you simply bake your red Velvet Cheesecake within the oven such as you’d bake a daily cake, you run the danger of some main cracking. Fortunate for you, there are two choices for baking this cheesecake. You'll be able to select to bake it in a water bathtub. This methodology simply means you wrap foil across the cheesecake pan and set it into a bigger pan that has a bit little bit of water in it. This ensures your cheesecake will keep moist through the lengthy baking course of. Some persons are cautious of utilizing this methodology due to the opportunity of water leakage via tears within the foil.

In the event you don’t like to make use of a water bathtub, then you'll be able to select this alternate methodology. Merely place a pan of water on a decrease rack, and bake the cheesecake on a rack above the pan. Having the water within the oven will nonetheless create sufficient moisture to assist preserve the cheesecake moist. I really want to make use of this methodology more often than not once I’m baking cheesecakes. Check out the photograph above. This cheesecake seems very moist!