Bailey's Cheesecake
Ingredients
This is for one 12" spring-form pan and is best made the day before
- 3 lbs cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 6 eggs
- 2 doz (24) Lorna Doone Shortbread Cookies
- 8 oz melted butter
- 3 oz brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup Irish Cream
- dash of salt
- non-stick cooking spray
For the Ganache
- 6 oz chocolate chips
- 6 oz heavy cream
- 2 oz coffee
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- pinch of cinnamon
How-to
- Preheat oven at 350 degrees
- Place cookies in a plastic baggie and break apart with mallet. Place in a bowl with brown sugar, cinnamon, a pinch of salt and melted butter. Press down crust mix into the base of the spring form pan until evenly distributed
- Bake at 350º degrees for 10 minutes. Remove and cool
- Place cream cheese in mixing bowl with paddle and whip with sugar until fluffy, continually scraping down the sides
- Add extract, lemon juice, pinch of salt and eggs one at a time. Whip for 3 more minutes
- Add half of cream cheese batter into the spring form pan. Spread out evenly
- Add Baileys to remaining half of cream cheese batter, mix well, then add to spring form pan
- Bake at 350º until solid, about 40 minutes. Let cool overnight
- Serve with berries and whipped cream
Make the Ganache
- Add 6 oz steeped heavy cream to 6 oz chocolate chips and stir to melt
- Add 2 oz coffee, 1 tsp vanilla extract and a pinch of cinnamon and stir to combine