Recipe Category: Cheesecake
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Ingredients
CRUST:
- 15 shortbread cookies, crushed
- 1 cup flaked coconut, toasted
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
FILLING:
- 3 packages (8 ounces) reduced-fat cream cheese
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup cream of coconut
- 3 tablespoons 2% milk
- 3/4 teaspoon rum extract
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
TOPPING:
- 1/2 fresh pineapple, peeled and cored, thinly sliced
- 3 tablespoons apple jelly, warmed
Method
- Preheat oven to 325F
- In a large bowl, combine crushed cookies, coconut and butter
- Press into the bottom of a 9 inch springform pan
- Bake for 8 minutes
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth
- Add in cream of coconut, milk and rum extract
- Beat in eggs until just combined
- Pour into crust
- Place springform pan into baking pan filled with water
- Bake 80 to 90 minutes, until center is just set
- Cool, cover and chill overnight
- Brush warm apple jelly over pineapple slices
- Chill 1 hour
- Garnish suggestion – edible flower petals
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