I’ve been avoiding posting desserts the past month, although I have so many recipes I want to post. It’s so hard to resist when you are cutting down the calories.
I made this dessert early June, when my son visited from Geneva. I had made Dulce de Leche for the second time and I was looking for recipes to use it. I found this recipe at Delia Online but as usual I did not have most of the ingredients, such as pecans, curd cheese, fromage frais or golden syrup, so I made a few changes. I did not make the sauce at all but I just mixed some dulce de leche with cream, just enough to make it runny like a sauce.
Dulce de Leche Banoffee Cheesecake with Greek Yoghurt – Recipe by Ivy, adapted from Delia Online.
Preparation time: 45 minutes
Cooking time: 65 minutes covered plus 5 minutes uncovered
Serves: 10
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Ingredients: |
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For crust: |
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200 |
Grams |
Chocolate wafer biscuits |
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½ |
Cup |
Roasted hazelnuts |
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50 |
Grams |
Butter or margarine at room temperature |
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Cream cheese-yoghurt filling: |
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4 |
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eggs |
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1 |
Cup |
sugar |
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600 |
Grams |
Philadelphia cheese |
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500 |
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Greek Yoghurt |
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1 |
Tsp |
Vanilla essence |
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3 |
medium |
Bananas, mashed |
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For the sauce: |
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½ |
can |
Dulce de leche |
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A few |
Tbsp |
Light cream |
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For the topping: |
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3 |
Medium-size |
Ripe bananas |
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2 |
Tbsp |
Lemon juice |
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Dark chocolate shavings |
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1 |
Cup |
Roasted Walnuts |
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Directions: |
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Combine crumbs, hazelnuts and butter, in a 28 cm spring form tin. |
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Mash the bananas in a food processor. |
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Beat eggs, sugar and vanilla essence and then add cheese, yoghurt and bananas and mix. |
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Empty cream cheese mixture on base and cover with aluminum foil. |
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Preheat oven at 180 degrees C and put the cheesecake in another tin with water. Put in the oven and bake for about one hour, or until just set. Allow to cool completely, then cover again with aluminum foil and place in the refrigerator and chill for at least an hour. |
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Carefully remove the cheesecake from the tin and place on a serving plate, using a knife to loosen the cake base from the bottom of the tin. |
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When you are ready to assemble the cheesecake put the 2 tablespoons of lemon juice into a bowl. Slice the bananas (about ½ cm) and gently toss them around to get an even coating of juice. Spread the dulce de leche on top of the cake, decorate with the bananas, walnuts and chocolate. |
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Serve with some extra sauce on top. |
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We will be away for the whole of August but as we are not going very far away from Athens we will be coming a few times back for some things we have to take care of here in Athens. I have programmed a few posts which will be posted during August but you will not be seeing the comments immediately but will post them when we visit and will try and catch up with your posts as well.
Fianlly, Shanthi, of Shanthi Krishnakumar’s Cookbook, has passed the Kreativ Blogger Award. Thank you very much Shanthi.
Have a nice Summer!!!
Other related posts:
No Machine Ice Cream with Dulce de leche
Chestnut, Cream Cheese, Chocolate and Dulce de Leche Gateau
Tags: Creams, Desserts, Dulce de Leche, Greek yoghurt
July 30th, 2009 at 7:25 am
This is absolutely heavenly!!!
July 30th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Have a lovely time! The banoffee looks yummy!
July 30th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Now, I wanna eat that cheese cake!!! SLURP…slurp..slurp
July 30th, 2009 at 9:27 am
OMG, that beautiful and smooth cheesecake looks so “dirty”!!! A luscious dessert item!
Cheers,
Rosa
July 30th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Looks heavenly, love that dripping sauce!!!
July 30th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Ivy this looks absolutely decadent. Every ingredient I read, my mouth watered - hazelnuts? Yogurt? Dulce de leche? Yum!
July 30th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Looks fantastic Ivy! Have a wonderful holiday!
July 30th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Have a lovely vacation, Ivy! Beautiful cheesecake. I’d need to pass on this right now, too, as, like you, I’m trying to lose some weight. I may bookmark it for a special occasion, though - it has many of my favorite ingredients.
July 30th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Very decadent dessert! I love the banoffee topping! Have a great time off!
July 30th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I like the presence of yogurt here - that will cut the sweetness of banana and dulce de leche. How you manged to have leftover Dulce de Leche is beyond me…I could eat it alone!
July 30th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I’ve never heard the term Banoffee, what does it mean?
And this looks heavenly! you know my obsession w/ cheesecakes, so this is definitely on my list!!!
July 30th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I love the hazelnuts the best here;-) looks gorgeous! what does banoffee mean (making me think of banana & coffee , but it definitely is not;-) )
July 30th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Thank you for your lovely comments and for your wishes.
Sorry for not explaining what banoffee means. I thought that everybody knew what it is. Banoffee (from the words banana and toffee) is an English pie (also spelled banoffi, or banoffy) made from bananas, cream and dulce de leche, either on a pastry base or one made from crumbled biscuits.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
That looks divine. You have been making some awesome desserts lately…really tempting.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Simply divine! I have been looking for a GOOD banana cheesecake recipe….now I have it!
Thanks!
Angie’s Recipes
July 30th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
ooo,it’s a amazing mixture of aromas this cake!congratulations!
July 30th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Wow Ivy this looks amazing! I love that last picture of the big creamy slice - really really fabulous and great for your son visiting he must have felt very special getting a dessert like this.
July 30th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Your cheesecakes are always so tempting! Have a great month Ivy.
July 30th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Post us pictures of your vacation when you return! I too made dulce de leche in June and combined it with bananas and macadamia nuts, but for ice cream (posted June 13). Your cheese cake sounds like perfection with the addition of chocolate. Since I have the remaining dulce waiting in my fridge….
July 30th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
That looks amazing, I’m sure it was delicious!
July 31st, 2009 at 12:06 am
Wow, does that look delicious! Bananas with hazelnuts and chocolate sounds fantastic.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:21 am
Wow! That is quite a filling dessert and a tasty one at that:).
July 31st, 2009 at 4:34 am
Looks heavenly!
July 31st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
This looks incredible, Ivy! Out of this world delcious!!
July 31st, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Looks delicious, Ivy. I’ve made a banoffee pie before and love the taste of caramelised milk with banana.
August 1st, 2009 at 2:31 am
That looks so good! I like the use of the Greek yogurt in it.
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:37 am
Iy, got an award for u in my blog.
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:07 pm
That pie looks so good! Just look at the dulce de leche dripping down the side.
August 4th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Only a Dessert Queen can think of such delectable desserts
August 4th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Oh wow….creamy and delectable…..
August 4th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
It looks fantastic!
August 5th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
WOW Ivy! I bet this tasted as good as it looks - and I don’t even like bananas - but I would certainly try this! Well done, Ivy!!!
August 9th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
This look sooo delicious!! May I get a slice please?
August 11th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Ivy it’s beautiful!! I love all the flavors going. You have a talent for making beautiful desserts!
August 11th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
That looks so delectable and tempting ….wish I could taste some:-)
August 12th, 2009 at 2:09 am
I’m not the biggest banana fan in the world, but I would eat this cake 10 times over. Wow does it look good!
August 12th, 2009 at 4:17 am
this is just so tempting, Ivy. with the combination of caramel, banana and chocolate, somebody will miss something if she/he does not eat this hehehe… rock on, buddy!
August 12th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Kales diakopes Ivy. Your banoffee pie looks so fantastic!
August 13th, 2009 at 5:07 am
That sounds like a lot of work.Yet looks perfect and elegant.
August 15th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Yum, I love cheesecake of all types. This looks so good, I bet it is fantastic with the greek yogurt.
August 17th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Dear Ivy
Yummy treat! looks so yummy. Been ages since I visited ur (anyother) blog. How have you been?
Takecare
Cheers
Vij
August 17th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Congrats on your award dear one and I love the topping for that cake! I want to be a kid and pick off the topping, eat it and leave the cake (lol)
August 18th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
WOW! Looks so delicious!
August 19th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Hey Ivy!
That looks fantastic! My wife (Corinne) would absolutely die for it! I think im going to have to surprise her and make it for her!
August 19th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
ooh - divine! I would LOVE a big slice of that right now!
August 20th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
YES - YES Ivy I’m here after all this time of not getting on your blog!! This looks absolutely fantastic! Ooooh I would love to try a slice as my mouth-waters here
August 20th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
It’s been long….no updates from u so thought of dropping by…..how r u dear? Is everything fine….
August 21st, 2009 at 1:05 am
OMG Ivy - this looks super! Hope you are having a good holiday.
August 23rd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Waw I have been away and missed so many wonderful dishes Ivy! I love this cheesecake - it’s calling to me! I am going to make this!
August 24th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Hope you and yor family are OK Ivy - I have just been reading about the fires in Athens.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I m new to this space…..I just ate Haggen Daszz dulce de leche ice cream yest……nd it was divine i m sure this tasted awesome….i must try it once