Pecan Pie Cheesecake Recipe
If you love pecan pie and cheesecake, this dessert is for you. The Pecan Pie Cheesecake Recipe brings rich cream cheese with sweet, nutty pecan pie filling.
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs
- 5 tbsp melted butter
- 2 tbsp sugar
Cheesecake Filling
- 24 oz cream cheese softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Pecan Topping
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup chopped pecans
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Mix crumbs, butter, sugar for crust.
- Press crust into pan base.
- Bake crust for 10 minutes.
- Cool crust on rack.
- Beat cream cheese until smooth.
- Add sugar and mix well.
- Add sour cream and eggs.
- Stir in vanilla extract gently.
- Pour filling over crust.
- Bake for 50 minutes.
- Turn off oven and rest cheesecake.
- Cool cheesecake completely.
- Heat sugar, cream, butter in saucepan.
- Stir until smooth and thickened.
- Add pecans and vanilla.
- Pour topping on cheesecake.
- Chill in fridge for 4 hours.
- Slice and serve chilled.
Notes
- Use room-temperature cream cheese.
- Do not overmix the batter.
- Cool cheesecake slowly to prevent cracks.
- Make topping after cheesecake cools.
- Chill overnight for best texture.