Scarpetta Restaurant's Signature Cheesecake Recipe

ByWendy Daughenbaugh WPVI logo
Monday, December 30, 2019
Scarpetta Restaurant's Signature Cheesecake Recipe
The Executive Chef of Scarpetta shares his recipe for one of the most popular desserts on the menu.

Looking for a dessert that will impress your holiday guests? The Executive Chef of Scarpetta on Rittenhouse Square shared his cheesecake recipe, one of the most popular desserts on the menu.

Mandarin Creme Fraiche Cheesecake

Cheesecake:

Ingridients

12 ounces Cream Cheese

6 ounces Creme fraiche

2 Eggs

Cup Sugar

1 vanilla pod

Instructions

Mix thoroughly and set aside

Crust:

1 cup brown sugar

4 cup graham crackers

Instructions

Press into bottom of spring form pan. Pour cake batter over crust.

Chef Tip: Be sure to completely smooth out the surface of the cheesecake so you have a level top

Bake at 250 degrees for 45 min/ rotate gently and bake another 20 min. Cool & then refrigerate

Mandarin Glee:

Squeeze 1 pint mandarins

Bloom 8 sheets gelatin

Boil mandarin juice with cup sugar until dissolved. Remove from heat and add gelatin. Cool to 100 degrees F. Pour glaze onto fully chilled cheesecake

Fig Compote:

1 cup chopped dried black mission figs

1 cup chopped pears

1 cup Simple syrup

Cook until reduced. Food process the compote.

Meringue Cookies:

Make an Italian meringue by beating egg white and sugar until stiff peaks form. Bake at 180F for 1.5 hours. Crumble into little slivers

Peach sorbet:

  • 2 cup peach puree from fresh peaches

cup sugar

Batch freeze in ice cream machine for 15 minutes

To Plate:

For each serving of cheesecake, sprinkle powdered sugar onto 5 raspberries.

Chef Tip: Do this off the plate because it's messy. Add sesame seeds to your powdered sugar shaker to ensure it evenly 'snows' on the raspberries

Add the raspberries to the top of your cheesecake, working diagonally from end to end. Then add the extras to either side. Top raspberries with little pieces of meringue cookies to give some crunch

Beside the cheesecake, add a mound of brown butter crumble. Chef Tip: This is like the topping that goes on apple crumb pie & it serves as bed for your sorbet

Scoop a ball of the sorbet and place it on top of the crumble

Chef Tip: A lot of professional chefs warm up the bottom of the ice cream scoop so it releases cleanly on the plate.

Top with a sprig of micro mint. Add a quarter inch swirl of your fig compote on both sides of the cheesecake & serve.

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210 W Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103

(215) 558-4199

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