Rainbow cheesecake

Name: Rainbow cheesecake
Uploaded: 2018-05-04T07:58:59Z
Duration: PT67.060S
Channel: Food Inspiration

published on 4 May, 2018 at 09:58

Ingredients:

300 g (10 oz) chocolate chip cookies;
150 g (5 oz) butter, melted;
1.2 kg (2.6 pounds) cream cheese;
250 g (1/2 pound) sugar;
5 eggs;
6 egg yolks;
1 tsp vanilla extract;
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink food coloring.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180C/350F. Cover 20 cm/8 inch baking pan with parchment.
To make the crush crush chocolate chip cookies into crumbs. Mix crumbs with butter and stir until smooth.
Form a crust in the prepared pan cover the bottom and sides (½ way up). Let it chill in fridge for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile make a cheesecake filling by whisking cream cheese, sugar, egg and egg yolks together.
Divide the cheese mixture into batches and color each one: 300 g (10 oz) – red, 250 g (8.8 oz) – orange, 250 g (8.8 oz) – yellow, 200 g (7 oz) – green, 130 g (4.5) – blue, 100 g (3.5 oz) – purple, 70 g (2.4 oz) – pink.
Pour cheese batter right in the center of the crust starting with red and finishing with pink. Optionally make some decorative stripes on the surface using toothpick.
Cover the bottom of the pan with foil and place it into a deep baking pan. Cover with boiling water about halfway up and bake for 1 hour 30 minutes.
Let cool down completely. Run knife dipped in hot water on the sides of the cake. Remove from the pan and slice.