Caramel cheesecake can be made with caramelized or mixed-in chips, and can also include peanut, chocolate, or pumpkin flavors. Toffee cheesecake can be made by adding melted toffee chips to the mixture, while some cooks integrate candy into every aspect of the cheesecake. Combining all four flavors is also possible.
There are dozens of versions of caramel cheesecake. At its simplest, this dessert is simply a plain cheesecake with chips either caramelized or mixed into the cake itself, sprinkled on top, or both. These crisps can be soft and chewy, like chocolate chips and peanut butter, or crunchy, hard chunks of traditional English toffee. Many types of caramel cheesecake also include some form of caramel, peanut, or chocolate, and some even feature pumpkin pie flavors.
Any cook who wants to make a simple toffee cheesecake needs to add just a handful of melted toffee chips to the cheesecake mixture. Gently stirring this mixture should create a marbled effect, while rapidly mixing the mixture will evenly distribute the candy and create a golden brown cheesecake. Some cooks are content to simply melt the soft fries and pour them over the cheesecake. This generally creates a sleek, satiny look.
Some cooks like to integrate candy into every aspect of their cheesecake. Melted caramelized chips are mixed into the graham cracker crust and marbled throughout the pie itself. Once out of the oven and cooled, the cook can cover the top of the cheesecake with hard, broken toffee. Ground nuts or almonds can also be added to this topping to break up the sweetness of the candy. Salted and spiced nuts often greatly reduce the sweetness.
The candy usually goes well with caramel, chocolate, pumpkin and bananas. Cooks creating toffee cheesecake can play with another flavor or they can try combining all four. A chocolate caramel cheesecake, for example, may have a chocolate cracker crust, topped with a traditional cheesecake, and drizzled with caramel and chocolate. Another variation might involve a puddle of melted caramel on top of the toffee-and-chocolate-chip-encrusted cheesecake. The cheesecake itself can also be chocolate or caramel flavored.
Caramel and toffee can be marbled across the cheesecake or melted together and slathered on top. Not only do the bananas add an unusual flavor and texture to this variety of cheesecake, but they also often temper the sweetness of the candy. Cooks who use bananas in their caramel cheesecake can top the cake with banana slices, mix mashed bananas into the cheesecake mix, or both.
When adding pumpkin pie flavorings to caramel cheesecake, the cook typically adds the puree, cooked pumpkin, and pumpkin pie spice to the cheesecake, then uses the caramel in the topping. This is often an autumn-themed dessert. Extremely adventurous cooks could combine all four of the traditional caramel cheesecake flavors in one recipe. One possible way to do this would be to add a chocolate crust to a pumpkin cheesecake and add a fudge-caramel glaze. Those who enjoy combining bananas and squash could add banana slices as a final side dish.
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