Caramel Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

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This Caramel Chocolate Chip Cheesecake recipe is the stuff dreams are made of. The vanilla cheesecake base is studded with chocolate chips for days & topped with the most buttery, delicious homemade caramel sauce! I’m in love!

You can’t beat cheesecake recipes that are filled with chocolate chips. If you love this Caramel Chocolate Chip Cheesecake you’ll definitely want to try this easy Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cheesecake recipe and these delicious little Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Balls.

This post is sponsored by ALDI, but all opinions are my own.

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I’m excited to say that I’ll be partnering with ALDI again this year to bring you tasty desserts like this cheesecake. If you follow me on Instagram stories, you may have seen that I was in Chicago a couple weeks ago. For part of the trip, I was visiting my cousin and waiting for her baby to pop out (it didn’t, and I was bummed). For the other part, I got to eat lots of good ALDI food and check out one of their newly renovated stores.

They are renovating the majority of their stores over the next couple of years and I have to tell you I’m pretty pumped. The new store was beautiful! From design-type things like pretty lighting around the wine (helllllooo inexpensive yummy wine) and opening up the aisles, to expanding the fresh produce section. I can’t wait for ours to get the updates!

I was also excited to see lately that they’ve expanded their meats to include hormone-free options, like chicken. I’ve been trying to stick to hormone-free meat lately since we will be starting IVF soon and it’s recommended. I’m loving that there are some good less expensive options for that at ALDI.

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And then of course there’s plenty of baking options, which were used in the making of this glorious cheesecake!

There are so many times where I wish I could give you a taste of something through the computer screen and this is one of them. For the crust, I started off with some chocolate sandwich cookies and a little melted butter. So hard to go wrong with this kind of crust and it’s perfect with the chocolate chips.

The base of the cheesecake is vanilla with a hint of brown sugar. It’s super smooth and creamy. It’s also studded with a full cup of chocolate chips. I considered trying the mini chocolate chips, but I’m so glad I used the full sized ones. Every bite of chocolate chip delivers just enough chocolate with the creamy cheesecake!

And then the caramel on top. Oh, the caramel! It’s an easy one to make right on the stove. You just toss everything into the pan to get started. Let it sit on medium heat for a bit while the butter and brown sugar melt, then bring everything to a boil. The caramel flavor and color will deepen and everything will begin to thicken. Once it’s done, let it cool for about 15 minutes or so while it thickens a little more. You want it to still be pourable, but also able to hold its place on the cheesecake.

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Pour the sauce on the cheesecake, add some more chocolate chips for good measure and devour! Seriously, devour is the right word. The pops of chocolate, the smooth and creamy cheesecake and the buttery brown sugar caramel sauce are absolutely amazing together. I actually took the cheesecake to share with some friends and one person literally stopped everything we were doing just to tell me how good it was. It’s time to get on it people! Who’s ready to make a cheesecake?!

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Recipe

Caramel Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

  • Author: Life, Love and Sugar
  • Prep Time: 1 Hour
  • Cook Time: 2 Hours, Plus Cooling
  • Total Time: 3 Hours, Plus Cooling
  • Yield: 12-14 Slices
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American

Description

This Caramel Chocolate Chip Cheesecake recipe is the stuff dreams are made of. The vanilla cheesecake base is studded with chocolate chips for days & topped with the most buttery, delicious homemade caramel sauce!


Ingredients

CRUST

  • 2 ¼ cups (302gBenton’s Chocolate Sandwich Cookie crumbs
  • 5 tbsp (70gCountryside Creamery Salted Butter, melted

CHOCOLATE CHIP FILLING

  • 24 ounces (678gHappy Farms Cream Cheese, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup (104gBaker’s Corner Sugar
  • 1/2 cup (90gBaker’s Corner Light Brown Sugar
  • 3 tbsp (25gBaker’s Corner All-Purpose Flour
  • 1 cup (230gFriendly Farms Sour Cream
  • 1 tbsp Stonemill Vanilla Extract
  • 4 Goldhen Eggs, room temperature
  • 1 cup (172gBaker’s Corner Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

CARAMEL SAUCE

  • 4 tbsp (56gCountryside Creamery Salted Butter
  • 2/3 cup (150gBaker’s Corner Light Brown Sugar, packed
  • 3/4 cup (180ml) Countryside Creamery Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 1 tsp Stonemill Vanilla Extract
  • 2 tsp Baker’s Corner Corn Syrup

Instructions

CRUST

1. Preheat oven to 325°F (163°C). Line a 9-inch (23cm) springform pan with parchment paper in the bottom and grease the sides.
2. Combine the crust ingredients in a small bowl. Press the mixture into the bottom and up the sides of the springform pan.
3. Bake the crust for 10 minutes, then set aside to cool.
4. Cover the outsides of the pan with aluminum foil so that water from the water bath cannot get in. Set prepared pan aside.

CHEESECAKE FILLING AND TOPPING

5. Reduce oven to 300°F (148°C).
6. In a large mixer bowl, mix the cream cheese, sugars and flour until well combined (Use low speed to keep less air from getting into the batter, which can cause cracks). Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
7. Add the sour cream, then the vanilla, mixing on low speed until well combined.
8. Add the eggs one at a time, beating slowly and scraping the sides of the bowl after each addition.
9. Stir in the chocolate chips.
10. Pour the cheesecake filling into crust and spread into an even layer.
11. Place springform pan (covered with aluminum foil) inside another larger pan. Fill the larger pan with enough warm water to go about halfway up the sides of the springform pan. The water should not go above the top edge of the aluminum foil on the springform pan.
12. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
13. Turn off heat and leave cheesecake in oven with door closed for 30 minutes.
14. Crack oven door and leave the cheesecake in the oven for about 30 minutes.
15.Remove cheesecake from oven and chill until firm, 5-6 hours or overnight.

CARAMEL SAUCE AND ASSEMBLY

16. Combine all ingredients in a medium sauce pan.
17. Heat on medium-low until sugar is melted, then turn heat to medium-high to bring to a boil.
18. Boil for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, then remove from heat and immediately pour into a heat-proof glass bowl.
19. Let the sauce cool for 15 minutes or so, then pour over the top of the cheesecake and spread evenly.
20. Top the cheesecake with some additional chocolate chips.
21. Refrigerate cheesecake until ready to serve. Cheesecake is best when well covered for 3-4 days.


Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 Slice
  • Calories: 397
  • Sugar: 34.7 g
  • Sodium: 276.8 mg
  • Fat: 24.1 g
  • Carbohydrates: 40.3 g
  • Protein: 7 g
  • Cholesterol: 68.4 mg

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32 Comments
  1. Kate

    I’m currently making this, and I was wondering, what does the water bath have to do with the baking? How exactly does the water bath work?






    1. Lindsay

      I prefer to use the water bath for cheesecake to prevent it from cracking when it cools. If you choose not to use a water bath though, you’ll likely want to reduce the baking time by maybe 15 minutes or so. If you’d like to see how I often set up my pan to avoid it leaking, check out my tutorial.

  2. Heather O'Connor

    Do I remove the pan before or after the cheescake is chilled? If after, do I remove it before or after I add the caramel topping?

  3. Onslow

    Very tasty cheesecake recipe. I also had problems with the caramel. Im thinking the fat content of the cream, may be the problem. The best i could get for ‘heavy’ cream was 33%BF. Sauce is tasty though.
    The other issue i had was the chocolate chips added to the cake batter all sank to the bottom so they were kinda lumpy with the base but hey chocolate is nummy anyways.I m thinking maybe if they were dusted in flour before mixing….. ??? Regardless the cake is very good.
    thanks for a great recipe.

    1. Lindsay

      I’m not sure why the chocolate chips sank. I’ve added many things to this cheesecake base before and never had them sink. They weren’t dusted with flour either, so I’m not sure.

  4. Maya

    So I’m making the cake now, it’s in the oven but I’m scared that it is going to be a garbage cake:/ in Denmark many of those products don’t exist so I took our version of it. But it was extremely runny (like a regular cake, but nothing like the consistence in the video) even though I used only 2eggs (here they are very large) and I put extra flour in. My round form was to big for my small oven so it had to be a rectangular one. We don’t have those biscuits so I used digestives ( I cant stand the awful smell/taste of Oreos so if I used them I would fell sickened for days) but it crumbled so easily even after the butter and oven time.. I really hope it will be nice after some time in the oven, because it was an extremely expensive cake to make:/ I’m really scared it’s going to crumble ore that it won’t bake. Let’s see there’s time for it to flower

  5. Princess

    Hello Lindsay I have a question can you use a brownie for the crust in the cheese cake, and also can you use store brought caramel sauce…

  6. Lystra Ifill

    My caramel always runs down the side. I buy it from the supermarket though….if I make it from scratch, once its of the correct consistency, it won’t run right?

  7. Dorien

    It is looking sooo good…
    And than there’s that moment that you ran into the Aldi and sees none of the products 🙁
    Apperently they sell different baking products in different countries, so now I have to find a store that does sell those chocolatechips 😉
    Because I really have to trie these 🙂

  8. Regina

    I made this cheese cake and followed the instructions to the letter. My caramel did not get thick and spreadable, it just ran 🙁 , any idea what I did wrong? I even let it sit and cool for about 30 mins. Did you use a candy thermometer? 

    1. Lindsay

      Hmm, I didn’t use a candy thermometer. You could try cooking it for a bit longer to thicken it more. A last minute fix could be to add a little sifted powdered sugar to thicken it as well. It’d change the consistency a bit, but it’d still be good.

  9. LUZVIMINDA Olarte

    All sweet and treats very temptation is always looks yummy& inspiring,thank you for sharing your recipes.GOD BLESS!

  10. Hannah

    Hi Lindsay! This looks so fantastic! I am a lover of cheesecake 🙂 You have a beautiful blog with eye-catching photos! I am also drawn to your blog because you specialize in dessert. I just started a blog and a large part of that blog will be dessert recipes. I would love it if you would take a look and let me know what you think: http://www.butterloveandcowboys.com. it is super new and I have a lot of work to do but I am so excited about it. I can’t wait to try this cheesecake soon!

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