I would like to make some original flavored cheesecakes.
By original, I mean something you can`t buy in the store.
Is it possible to use frozen ice cream as an ingredient?
This way I can make a desert that tastes like moose tracks, or butter pecan or neopolitan, etc…
Has any one had luck with this, or can maybe steer me to a site with some recipes?
I would appreciate any help, thanks.
I would guess that you could use ice cream to replace the cream in a cheesecake recipe. But since the ingredients need to be mixed, I’d think the ice cream will melt before you even start baking.
Pure speculation, but using a 1/2 cup of ice cream instead of a 1/4 cup of cream would probably impart the flavor of the ice cream.
You can add all sorts of flavorings and candies to a cheesecake recipe, to make damn near anything you want. Swirl in chocolate or caramel (I can never remember which Moose Tracks has in it), add little peanut butter cups, and you’re all set.
My personal favorite, BTW, is chocolate mint cheesecake. It’s a pain to make, but oh so good.
Well, you are going to bake this concoction, so I’d stay away from ice cream. CrazyCatLady’s idea of adding flavorings or candies sounds like a winner.
You could make an unbaked cheesecake. Alternatively, you could make a cheesecake with cheesecake icecream. Didn’t Haagen Dazs use to do a Raspberry Cheesecake flavour?
Then you could soften it, whip it around to spread it on the base, and put the whole thing back in the freezer for a while.
My wife loves both cheesecake and ice cream…so, I just get ice cream w/ cheesecake in it!
shall second istara here - not all cheescakes are baked. In fact, here in the UK, the unbaked variety is far more common - baked cheesecakes are usually sold as ‘american cheesecake’.
For unbaked cheescake, you could certainly add ice-cream - although I’m not sure how it would taste
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The best advice I’ve seen is Crazy Cat Lady’s. You really can add almost anything to cheesecake (of the baked variety) and make some interesting flavors. I’ve experimented with mine dozens of times, usually with good results. Try some candies or different sauces, even fresh fruit.
OK, so if my uncle loves Cherry ba-da-bing ice cream, and I want to make a cheese cake for him (to be refridgerated) can I use the store brand Cherry ba-da-bing ice cream in the cheesecake mix?
I tried to look up recipes on the net but didn`t really look long enough to find any that substitute ice cream for other ingredients.
Is there a way to make the cheesecake taste very similar to Cherry ba-da-bing icecream?
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What’s in the ice cream? If it’s this “Vanilla ice cream with a jackpot of bing cherries, chocolaty chunks and cherry swirls”, You can add cherry cordial (swirliness) or cherries themselves to a baked cheescake, and chocolate chips/chunks. The crust can be made out of chcolcate wafer cookies. Here’s a sample recipe.
It’s wonderful the variety of things you can do with cheesecake: ad a layer of caramel over the crust before putting in your filling, drizzle melted chocolate over the cooled cake, add toffee bits to the filling, whatever sounds good! I do recommend higher quality liquor though; I used a cheap Creme de menthe once for mint chocolate chip cake and it tasted like alcohol. :mad:
Off to make pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving… 
Here is a link to many flavors of recipes, baked and no-bake: http://www.floras-hideout.com/recipes/mxp/chcake/ When I decided to concentrate on cheesecakes as my signature dessert (most everyone likes them and there are so many choices of flavors), I bought this. The gorgeous pictures made it well worth it!
What’s in the ice cream? If it’s this “Vanilla ice cream with a jackpot of bing cherries, chocolaty chunks and cherry swirls”, You can add cherry cordial (swirliness) or cherries themselves to a baked cheescake, and chocolate chips/chunks. The crust can be made out of chcolcate wafer cookies. Here’s a sample recipe.
It’s wonderful the variety of things you can do with cheesecake: ad a layer of caramel over the crust before putting in your filling, drizzle melted chocolate over the cooled cake, add toffee bits to the filling, whatever sounds good! I do recommend higher quality liquor though; I used a cheap Creme de menthe once for mint chocolate chip cake and it tasted like alcohol. :mad:
Off to make pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving…
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Yes, that is the Ice cream that you cite… Thanks for your help, and I will be trying some of the recipes. I would like to make them as Christmas gifts.
This way they can each be modified to suit the recipient. Or I could make a bunch and assemble a sample platter.
Thanks, but I think I have to relinquish that for double-posting :o Enjoy cooking, and people will love you for it!
just out of curiosity, wouldn’t it change the texture of the cheesecake so that it became…soupy? by the time you finished, you’d have a puddle of cheesecake.
Thats what Im wondering too. I`ll just have to try one and see if it works.
There are recipes that call for whipping cream or sour cream as an addition. It seems that melted ice cream could substituted, or softened ice cream that is very well blended with the rest of the ingredients. The volume of the creamy part of the ice cream could make up the whipping cream volume, and the cherries and chocolate chunks can just be considered additions.
Complete conjecture, though.
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