Alberta Bee News
June 2022
Recipe of the Month Ingredients Cheesecake Ingredients • 32 oz Cream Cheese • 1 2/3 cups White Sugar • ¼ cup Cornstarch • 1 tbsp Pure Vanilla Extract • 2 each Extra Large Eggs • ¾ cup Heavy Whipping Cream Cheesecake Crust Ingredients • 1 ½ cups Finely Ground Graham Crackers • 1 2/3 cup White Sugar • 6 tbsp Butter
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Hot Bourbon Honey Caramel Sauce Ingredients • ¼ cup Butter • ½ cup Peace River Bourbon Hot Honey • 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream Smoked Sweet and Salty Honey Roasted Cashews • 1 tsp Butter • 1 ½ cups Whole Cashews (salted) • ¼ cup Peace River Honey
Perfect 180 Smoked Juniors Cheesecake
Instructions Preparing the Cheesecake Crust Preheat the smoker to 275 degrees and place a water bath in the smoker to get warm. Pour the graham cracker crumbs, sugar and melted butter into a bowl and mix until well combined. Make sure to grease the inside of the spring form pan before placing your crust mixture into it. Press the mixture into the bottom of a 9 inch spring form greased pan. Place the crust onto the smoker for about 10 minutes to par bake the crust a little bit.
Recipe courtesy of You Need A BBQ! https://youneedabbq.com/perfect-180-smoked-cheesecake/ This weekend was the Porkapalooza Honey BBQ Cookoff sponsored by the Alberta Beekeepers Commission. My team was partnered with Peace River Honey/Honey Bunny. We were very excited to work with the folks from Peace River because they have a huge selection of flavored, as well as creamed and more traditional honeys. We wanted to make our dish as honey forwards as possible to really wow the judges. We also believe that if you put a little bit of honey in every layer, it’s far better than just serving one part of the dish as honey based. A versatile ingredient like this can easily be incorporated into every single layer of the recipe. The official title of our dish was “Smoked Vanilla Cheesecake with Honey Graham Cracker Crust, Topped with Hot Bourbon honey caramel sauce and honey roasted cashews”. We also served this dish with a spear of fresh honeycomb, directly out of one of their hives. The judges liked it enough to give us a perfect score.
Make the Cheesecake Mixture Combine the cream cheese, sugar, cornstarch, vanilla extract, eggs and whipping cream in a large bowl. Using a mixer, mix on low speed for around 3 minutes until the ingredients are combined, then increase the speed to medium and continue mixing for 2 more minutes. Make sure to scrape the edges of the bowl so that everything mixes fully. Once the mixture is complete, grab the spring form pan and pour the mixture on top of the crust.
Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 2 hours Cooling Time: 6 hours
Placing the Cheesecake onto the Smoker Double wrap the bottom of the spring form pan in 18
