Date & Carrot Cheesecake

Ingredients

Crust

• 2 cups craham cracker crumbs
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup butter

Date/Carrot Cake

• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 dash salt
• 1/2 cup crushed pineapple
• 1 1/2 cups minced Deglet Noor Dates
• 1/2 cup grated carrots

Cheesecake

• 16 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 Tbsp. flour
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Frosting

• 8 oz. Cream Cheese
• 1/4 cup butter
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Instructions

1. Mix crust ingredients together.  Bake for 12 minutes at 350 degrees.
2. Mix together ingredients for Date/Carrot cake.
3. Spread 1 1/2 cups Date mixture over bottom of crust. 
4. Drop spoonfuls of 1/2 Cream Cheese mixture.
5. Repeat with Date mixture and Cream Cheese mixture.
6. Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees.
7. Mix frosting, cover the cake.
8. Decorate with date/caramel and Grandma’s Recipe English Toffee crushed.

Description

2013 Date Festival Winner

Paula Yeager, 1st Place – Desserts