Turtle Cheesecake
Turtle Cheesecake is a family favorite. It is a marbled cheesecake topped with a decadent combination of pecans, chocolate morsels and caramel and chocolate syrups.
Prep: 40 min | Cook: 1 hr 10 min | Yield: 14 servings
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 3/4 cups chocolate Graham cracker crumbs
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
Filling
- 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1 (14 ounce) can Nestlé® Carnation® Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups (9 ounces) Nestlé® Toll House® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
- 2 tablespoons Nestlé Nesquik Chocolate Flavor Syrup
- 2 tablespoons caramel syrup or ice cream topping
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans
- 1/4 cup Nestlé® Toll House® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini Morsels
Instructions
- Heat oven to 300 degrees F. Grease a 9 inch springform pan.
Crust
- Combine crumbs and butter in medium bowl. Press onto bottom and 1 inch up side of prepared pan.
Filling
- Beat cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk in large mixer bowl until smooth.
- Add sugar, eggs, lime juice and vanilla extract; beat until combined.
- Microwave 1 1/2 cups morsels in medium, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) power for 1 minute; stir. The morsels may retain some of their shape. If necessary, microwave at additional 10 to 15 second intervals, stirring just until morsels are melted.
- Stir 2 cups of cheesecake batter into melted morsels; mix well. Alternately spoon batters into crust, beginning and ending with yellow batter.
- Bake for 70 to 75 minutes or until edge is set and center moves slightly.
- In pan on wire rack for 10 minutes; run knife around edge of cheesecake. Cool completely.
- Drizzle Nesquik and caramel syrup over cheesecake. Sprinkle with nuts and mini morsels.
- Refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
- Remove side of pan.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from: Nestlé and meals.com
A finalist in the Nestlé Toll House "Share the Very Best" recipe contest, this Turtle Cheesecake dessert was submitted by Audra Burtch of Chandler, Arizona.
