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Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe

Ingredients

Cheesecake

  • 2 cups Honey Bunches of Oats Strawberry Cereal crushed into crumbs
  • 2 tablespoons melted butter
  • 3-8 ounce packages cream cheese softened
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1-14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup strawberry jam

Fresh Strawberry Sauce

  • 16 ounces fresh strawberries washed and hulled
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 tablespoons corn starch
  • 2/3 cup water

Instructions

Cheesecake

  • In small mixing bowl, combine Honey Bunches of Oats Strawberry Cereal crumbs and melted butter until combined.
  • Press mixture into the bottom of a 9" springform pan.
  • Cover and place in the refrigerator to chill.
  • In medium mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy.
  • Slowly beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth.
  • Beat in eggs and vanilla until just combined.
  • Pour half of cheesecake batter into springform pan on top of crust.
  • Spoon Strawberry jam evenly on top of cheesecake batter in pan.
  • Pour remaining cheesecake batter on top of jam.
  • If your springform pan does not have a tight seal, tightly wrap bottom of pan in aluminum foil, up to the edge of the pan.
  • Place cheesecake pan into another larger pan, like a 9 X 13" pyrex dish or a lasagna pan.
  • Pour hot water into the larger pan, until it's about halfway up the sides of the cheesecake pan.
  • Place in 300° oven and bake for 75 minutes or until cheesecake is just turning golden.
  • Remove from oven and let cheesecake cool.
  • Refrigerate a minimum of five hours.
  • Ladle fresh strawberry sauce on just before serving.

Fresh Strawberry Sauce

  • Mash half of the strawberries in a small sauce pan.
  • Slice the remaining strawberries and set aside.
  • To the mashed berries, add 1 cup sugar, cornstarch and 2/3 cup water.
  • Heat on stovetop at medium heat until sauce just boils and begins to thicken.
  • Remove from heat.
  • Stir in sliced strawberries.
  • Add more water if you would like a thinner sauce.
  • Ladle strawberry sauce over the whole cheesecake or pour strawberry sauce over individual slices when serving.