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Mazapan Cheesecake

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  • Author: Ericka Sanchez
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes, plus 4 hours setting time
  • Total Time: 0 hours
  • Yield: Serves 12 1x

Description

This no-bake cheesecake is a fun dessert everyone will love.  Its main ingredient is the beloved Mazapan.  Mexico’s favorite peanut candy.


Ingredients

Scale

40 Maria cookies, finely crushed

½ cup butter, melted

2 tablespoons smooth peanut butter

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, room temperature

1 cup milk

½ cup heavy cream

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ cup granulated sugar

10 mazapanes, divided

2 (.25 ounce each) gelatin envelopes, dissolved in ¼ cup hot water


Instructions

Spray a 9-inch springform pan with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.

 

Stir together crushed cookies, butter and peanut butter in a large bowl. Mixture should resemble wet sand. Place cookie crumb mixture in springform pan and press, covering bottom of mold and a ½-inch way up. Refrigerate while filling is prepared.

 

Combine cream cheese, milk, heavy cream, vanilla sugar and 8 mazapanes in a large bowl. Mix on low speed for 5-8 minutes or until all ingredients have mixed well and there are no visible clumps.  Add gelatin and mix for another 5 minutes.

 

Pour mixture in prepared spring form pan.  Refrigerate for 4 hours to overnight or until cheesecake is firm enough to slice.

 

Crumble remaining mazapanes and sprinkle over cheesecake.  Run a knife around edge of cheesecake and unmold. Slice and serve.