Rumchata Cheesecake

Rumchata Cheesecake

Nut-free
480 min
12 servings

If you love RumChata, this boozy cinnamon cheesecake is for you. With a quick and easy graham cracker crust, perfect cream cheese filling, and cinnamon-sugar and whipped cream topping, it's a decadent dessert everyone will love.

Ingredients

  • cooking spray
  • 9graham crackers (1 sleeve), finely crushed
  • 6 tbsp.melted butter
  • ¼ c.granulated sugar
  • 2 tsp.ground cinnamon
  • kosher salt
  • 4blocks cream cheese, softened
  • ¾ c.granulated sugar
  • ¼ c.packed brown sugar
  • 4 largeeggs
  • 1 tsp.pure vanilla extract
  • ⅓ c.rumchata liqueur
  • 3 tbsp.cornstarch
  • ½ tsp.ground cinnamon
  • kosher salt
  • cool whip
  • cinnamon sugar
  • caramel sauce

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 325° and grease an 8" or 9" springform pan with cooking spray. Make crust: In a large bowl, stir graham cracker crumbs, butter, sugar, cinnamon, and salt until combined. Press into the bottom of the prepared pan and up the sides. Set aside.

  2. 2

    In a large bowl using a hand mixer (or in the bowl of a stand mixer), beat cream cheese with sugars until no lumps remain. Add eggs, one at a time, then stir in vanilla and RumChata. Add cornstarch, cinnamon, and salt and beat until combined. Pour mixture over crust. 

  3. 3

    Wrap bottom of pan in aluminum foil and place in a large roasting pan. Pour in enough boiling water to come up halfway in the baking pan. Bake until center of cheesecake only slightly jiggles, about 1 hour 30 minutes. Turn off the heat, prop open oven door, and let cheesecake cool in oven, 1 hour. Remove foil and refrigerate cheesecake for at least 5 hours and up to overnight.

  4. 4

    Spread Cool Whip on top of cheesecake in a thick layer, then sprinkle all over with cinnamon sugar. Pipe more Cool Whip around the edges of cheesecake, then drizzle piped Cool Whip with caramel.