Last calendar week it was lemon strawberry, too today we�re going inwards some other direction entirely. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 direction where the streets are lined amongst thick chewy chocolate chips cookies too paved amongst chocolate glaze! And the houses are made of�vanilla cheesecake too kokosnoot whipped cream?! Okay, I�ve gone every bit good far, let�s speak delicious details earlier I lose you lot all.
To root off, I had a determination to brand regarding the bottom cookie layer � to bake or non to bake?! If I went completely no-bake, what we�d actually convey hither is is cookie dough cheesecake, which of class would endure ridiculously good, but, it wasn�t quite my vision. I wanted kind of a cookie cake topped amongst all the other creamy layers too chocolate, hence I decided to bake the bottom layer into a thick, chewy, vegan chocolate chip cookie.
Ingredients
- For the Cookie Layer:
- 2/3 loving cup smoothen almond butter
- 1/4 loving cup refined kokosnoot petroleum melted too cooled*
- 1/4 loving cup pure maple syrup
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 loving cup blanched almond flour
- 2 Tbsp kokosnoot flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp body of body of water salt
- 1/2 loving cup chocolate chips dairy & soy costless or chopped black chocolate, divided
- For the Vanilla Cheesecake Layer:
- 2 cups cashews soaked for at to the lowest degree four hours (or overnight), rinsed good too gently dried amongst newspaper towel
- 1/4 loving cup refined kokosnoot petroleum soft but solid
- 1/2 loving cup pure maple syrup
- 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp body of body of water salt
- For the Coconut Whipped Cream:
- 1 pocket-size tin post away kokosnoot cream chilled overnight (about 2/3-3/4 cup)
- 1 tbsp pure maple syrup or preferred sweetener
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
- extra chocolate chips if desired
- For the Chocolate Glaze**
- 1/4 loving cup refined kokosnoot oil
- 2 Tbsp raw cacao powder
- 2 Tbsp pure maple syrup
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- First, brand the chocolate chip cookie layer:
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees too trouble an 8� springform pan amongst parchment exactly on the bottom, or trouble a regular 8 inch pan amongst parchment on the bottom too sides
- Whisk together the almond butter, maple syrup, kokosnoot oil, too vanilla until real smooth. Combine the dry out ingredients inwards a separate bowl, too hence add together to the moisture too stir until a dough forms. Chill the dough if real gummy for close five minutes, too hence stir inwards 1/3 loving cup of the chocolate chips.
- Press into the bottom of the pan, too hence add together the remaining chocolate chips on top too press in. bake inwards the preheated oven for 12-15 minutes (place the pan on a baking canvas inwards representative of leaking if you�re using a springform pan) or until centre is exactly barely set. To proceed the crust chewy it's essential non to over-bake (under-baking exactly a fleck is okay, since the cake volition endure stored chilled)
- After removing from oven, cool on wire rack inwards the pan.
- To Make the Cheesecake:
- While the cookie layer cools, brand the vanilla cheesecake layer. Combine all ingredients inwards a high speed blender or nutrient processor, too process/blend on high for several minutes, scraping the sides every bit needed, until a thick creamy mixture forms.
- Pour the cashew mixture over the cooled crust (or by too large cooled) too scrape the sides of the blender to stitch all of it. Now it's fourth dimension for the cake to set. If you lot are inwards a hurry, you lot tin post away ready the cake inwards the freezer yesteryear roofing too freezing for close ii hours. To serve, allow the cake to thaw inwards the fridge for a overnice creamy consistency.
- You tin post away also ready the cake inwards the fridge overnight - only encompass too house inwards the dorsum of your fridge too wake upwards to a perfectly creamy cheesecake!
- Now for the toppings:
- To brand the whipped cream, run an electrical mixer to shell the mutual frigidity kokosnoot cream until smoothen too creamy, too hence add together the maple too vanilla too shell until good combined. Spread over the chilled cheesecake earlier serving, top amongst to a greater extent than chocolate chips if desired.
- To Make the Glaze:
- Melt kokosnoot petroleum over real depression heat, too hence at nowadays whisk inwards cacao too maple until a shiny glaze forms, take away from estrus too stir inwards vanilla. Allow to cool to room temp earlier drizzling. Glaze volition harden subsequently beingness drizzled on the mutual frigidity cheesecake.
***Storing Notes
Recipe Notes
*I used refined to avoid the kokosnoot season that extra virgin has
**The glaze is alone optional too makes it extra rich. In house of kokosnoot oil, you lot tin post away also run palm petroleum shortening
***Prior to topping, cheesecake tin post away endure stored inwards the freezer earlier beingness thawed inwards the fridge for several hours for a creamy texture. You tin post away also shop it covered inwards the refrigerator. After topping, it should endure stored tightly covered inwards the fridge (preferably the back.)
Thanks done portion recipes to : https://www.paleorunningmomma.com/chocolate-chip-cookie-vanilla-cheesecake-paleo-vegan/