Sopapilla Cheesecake – My Baking Dependancy

Creamy cheesecake filling is sandwiched between a buttery crescent roll crust and completed with cinnamon sugar and honey on this surprisingly straightforward sopapilla cheesecake.

Do you ever crave one thing that tastes like your childhood? It may not be the fanciest meals on this planet, nevertheless it brings again nice recollections?

For me, a few of these meals embrace do-it-yourself orange julius, orange fluff, ice cream sandwich cake, and this sopapilla cheesecake.

What are Sopapillas?

If you happen to grew up consuming at Chi-Chi’s within the ‘90s or in the event you’re accustomed to Tex-Mex delicacies, you most likely already know what a sopapilla is.

Sopapillas as we consider them right here within the States are puffed, fried dough squares which might be coated with cinnamon sugar and served with honey. This type of sopapilla is widespread in New Mexico and in Tex-Mex delicacies.

There are different kinds of sopapillas, starting from savory to candy, which might be in style all through Latin America. However in the present day, we’re gonna acknowledge that the sort we’re speaking about isn’t precisely “genuine” – however they’re nonetheless scrumptious.

As a child who grew up within the Midwest within the 80s and 90s, there wasn’t numerous genuine Mexican or Latin American meals round. We thought we had been cultured going to eat at a spot like Chi-Chi’s! 

Though I’ve come to like far more genuine Mexican meals as an grownup, I nonetheless keep in mind the servers bringing out these platters of fried, cinnamon-sugar-covered dough and being completely delighted. And that’s a fairly good reminiscence.

(If you wish to attempt an genuine Mexican model, do this sopaipilla recipe!)

What’s Sopapilla Cheesecake?

Sopapilla cheesecake combines the cinnamon-sugar goodness of these sopapillas with one in every of my all-time favourite meals: cheesecake.

A easy cheesecake filling – similar to the filling for my nana’s straightforward cheesecake – is sandwiched between layers of crescent roll dough. The entire thing will get topped with a bunch of cinnamon sugar and completed with a drizzle of honey.

This recipe doesn’t make a spherical, traditional-style cheesecake. As a substitute, it’s made in a 9×13-inch pan and lower into bars, identical to my basic cheesecake bars. 

It’s a brilliant straightforward recipe that’s nice for taking to a celebration or potluck, since you’ll be able to lower the cheesecake into as many items as you want. And I can wager that a couple of individual can be transported again to their childhood with only one chew!

The best way to Make This Recipe

This sopapilla cheesecake is very easy to make, you would possibly simply discover that it turns into your new go-to recipe.

Elements you’ll want

You understand once I say a recipe isn’t fancy or fussy, the components checklist goes to be fairly easy. For this one, you have to:

• 2 8-ounce packages of cream cheese, at room temperature 
• 1 ¾ cups granulated sugar, divided use
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 8-ounce cans refrigerated crescent rolls or sheets
• ½ cup butter, room temperature
• 1 ½ teaspoons floor cinnamon
• 3 tablespoons honey

Pillsbury makes crescent dough sheets. They arrive in a can identical to the basic crescent rolls do, however the dough isn’t perforated. That makes it tremendous straightforward to make use of on this recipe, since all you must do is unroll it and press it into the pan.

If you happen to can’t discover the dough sheets, although, don’t stress. You may completely use the common cans of crescent rolls. You’ll simply wish to pinch the perforated seams collectively earlier than utilizing them within the recipe.

Making sopapilla cheesecake

Begin by making the cheesecake filling. Utilizing a mixer, beat the cream cheese, 1 cup of the sugar, and the vanilla on medium-high pace till clean. This can take about 3 minutes.

Now it’s time to assemble. Unroll one of many crescent roll tubes and use your palms to unfold it into the underside of a grease 9×13-inch pan. 

If you’re utilizing the crescent rolls as an alternative of the dough sheets, now could be if you’ll pinch the perforated seams collectively.

Unfold the filling on high of the dough, then high with the second tube of dough in the identical means.

In a medium bowl, use a fork to combine collectively the softened butter, the remainder of the sugar, and the cinnamon. Dot this combination everywhere in the high of the cheesecake. Don’t fear about spreading it out; it’ll soften within the oven and unfold excessive by itself.

Bake for 35-40 minutes; you need the highest crust to be puffed and golden brown.

When you take away the sopapilla cheesecake from the oven, drizzle it with the honey. Let it cool within the pan for about 2 hours earlier than serving.

You may serve this cheesecake at room temperature or chilled. It’s as much as you!

Storage

Retailer the sopapilla cheesecake within the fridge, lined, for as much as 3 days.

If you happen to’d wish to freeze leftovers, you’ll be able to. Place sliced bars on a parchment-lined baking sheet and place your entire sheet within the freezer for 1-2 hours.

As soon as the cheesecake bars are frozen by means of, retailer them in an hermetic container within the freezer for as much as a month. Allow them to thaw within the fridge in a single day.

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