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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> South American >> Venezuelan

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. | 2. For the crust: | 3. Combine butter and crumbs, mixing well with a fork. Press into the bottom of a 10-inch springform pan. | 4. For the caramel: | 5. Combine sugar and water in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add zest and stir well. Cover with a lid and cook until sugar turns a medium amber color, about 3-6 minutes after mixture comes to a boil. Remove from heat and stir 30 seconds. Slowly stir in cream, being careful to avoid spatters. Set aside. | 6. For the cheesecake: | 7. Beat cream cheese and both sugars at medium speed with an electric mixer until soft and fluffy. Add vanilla and salt. Add eggs one at a time, beating on lowest speed of mixer just until incorporated. | 8. Pour two-thirds of batter over crust. remove zest from caramel and beat caramel mixture into remaining batter. Pour caramel batter over plain batter in pan and swirl mixtures with a rubber spatula. | 9. Place in center of the oven and bake for about 50 minutes, or until edges are firm but middle still Wiggles. Remove from oven and cool. Chill. | 10. Beat the 1 cup whipping cream till stiff and spraed on chilled cake. | 11. OPTIONAL --. | 12. Garnish: | 13. Combine sugar and water in a saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Boil until mixture is light brown and a small amount dropped in cold water forms a brittle ball. Remove from heat and immediately pour into 2 9-inch circles, on a well-buttered cookie sheet pan. | 14. When the caramel starts to harden, cut each circle into six wedges a sharp knife. As caramel continues to harden, recut the wedges several times. | 15. Slide the tip of a sharp knife under a wedge and remove from plate. | 16. Place on a buttered cookie sheet to continue cooling. Continue with remaining panes. Some may break. Save six of the most attractive panes for the decoration. | 17. Just before serving, placing panes vertically into the cheesecake. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	6	tablespoons	melted	513.0	23.570999999999998	16.029	43.2
graham cracker crumb	1 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-
sugar	1	cup		805.98	201.59599999999998	0.0	0.0
water	1/4	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
lemon zest	1			-	-	-	-
whipping cream	1/2	cup		175.2	1.776	1.3019999999999998	18.546
cream cheese	4	packages	softened	-	-	-	-
brown sugar	1	cup		836.0	215.798	0.264	0.0
sugar	1/2	cup	granulated	159.9	30.004	5.005	2.496
vanilla	1	tablespoon		37.44	1.6445	0.0078	0.0078
salt	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
egg	4			286.0	1.44	25.12	19.02
whipping cream	1	cup	chilled	175.2	1.776	1.3019999999999998	18.546
sugar	1	cup		805.98	201.59599999999998	0.0	0.0
water	1/4	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.