This is a quick and simple recipe that all my friends love. Every time I head out to one of their parties, I always ask what I should bring, and as always they say "sopilla cheesecake!" So here's the recipe. This is not your normal spring-form pan cheesecake, so don't be shocked when it doesn't look like it. It's a twist off the mexican dessert, the sopilla and cheesecake. It's got a top and bottom golden cinnamon sugar crust with a nice and yummy cream cheese center. Simply amazing! You'll be shocked at how easy, inexpensive, and yummy this recipe is.
Ingredients:
- 8 oz. pkg cream cheese
- 1 1/2 cups sugar; divided
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
- 2 cans crescent rolls
- cooking spray
- additional cinnamon and sugar
Spray cooking spray into a lasagna pan. Unroll one can of crescent roll dough and press into the bottom of the lasagna pan. Make sure to press the dough together where the dough had been sliced for the crescents to allow the entire bottom of the pan to be covered with one sheet of dough.
In a large bowl, mix together: 1 cup sugar, pkg. cream cheese, and vanilla until well blended. (at this point I also add in additional cinnamon to taste, you don't have to if you don't want). Spread this mixture onto the layer of crescent roll dough that used just laid down in the pan.
Unroll the other can of crescent roll dough and do the same thing you did before. (I also add more sugar and cinnamon to the top of this layer of dough as well and massage it into the dough. As before, you can leave this step out if you choose to.) Make sure the dough is well seamed together, and covers the cream cheese layer as well as possible (it doesn't have to be prefect).
In a small bowl, blend the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar and Tbsp. of cinnamon together. Sprinkle this mixture onto the top dough layer.
In a microwave safe bowl, melt butter on high heat. Pour melted butter onto the cinnamon sprinkled dough.
Place in oven and bake for 30 minutes, or until top crust is golden and puffy, and center begins to bubble up near sides. (Note: Not all the butter will set into a sugary crust like the rest just yet, so don't be alarmed.)
Take out of the oven, and allow to cool a bit before serving. You may serve this hot if you prefer (like with vanilla ice-cream...yum!), just keep in mind that the cream cheese center will be VERY hot once you take it out of the oven.
Next and final step: DEVOUR!
I hope you try this simple and tasty recipe in your kitchen sometime, and enjoy!
~Angel
1 comments:
I will have to try these!
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