Best Holiday Cheesecakes Awarded by Anna Olson

Celebrate the season with the creamiest cheesecake recipes that come with Anna Olson’s seal of approval!  Canada’s baking sweetheart was the first judge of Tre Stelle’s Cheesecake Showdown crowning Canada’s best cheesecake of the season. 

With imaginative flavour combinations and the creative use of cream cheese, Olson was wowed by Canada’s creamy creations. The star ingredient goes to Tre Stelle Cream Cheese, containing just four simple, all-natural ingredients.  It’s the key to making the cleanest and creamiest holiday desserts. 

Just ask Maggie Frith from The Magpie Cakery whose Triple Gingerbread Cheesecake was chosen by Olson as the winning holiday cheesecake. To get the instructions for Frith’s cheesecake and to get the recipes from the other finalists, visit @TreStelleCheese or download BitesbyTreStelle.

Triple Gingerbread Cheesecake 

Olson chose this as the winning cheesecake, calling it balanced and delicate. She commended Frith, founder of @TheMagpieCakery, for her use of Tre Stelle Cream Cheese in the filling as well as the topping, which also featured sparkling crystallized ginger.  

Ingredients

For the graham cracker crust

2 cups (240 g) gingerbread cookie crumbs or gingersnap crumbs*

3 tbsp sugar

2 tbsp (30 g) crystallized ginger, pulverized

5 tbsp (70 g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly

For the ginger whipped cream

¼ cup plus 2 tbsp (65 g) Tre Stelle Original Cream Cheese, cold (use the rest of the cream cheese from the fifth box used for the filling)

1½ cups heavy/whipping cream, very cold

1 cup (120 g) icing sugar, sifted

2 tbsp (30 g) crystallized ginger, pulverized

For the filling

2 lb. (907 g) Tre Stelle Original Cream Cheese, room temperature

1⅓ cups (266 grams) granulated sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

1½ teaspoons ground ginger

½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

¼ teaspoon ground cloves

½ teaspoon table salt

¼ cup (80 g) molasses

5 eggs, room temperature

1 cup heavy/whipping cream, room temperature

2 tsp vanilla

To get the instructions, visit @TreStelleCheese or download BitesbyTreStelle.

Honourable Mentions 

These two creative recipes also scored high in the Tre Stelle Cheesecake Showdown.

No-Bake Individual Matcha Cheesecakes 

Olson loved @KellysBakedGoods’ no-bake individual desserts, which are an easy introduction to the delicious world of cheesecakes. Olson also praised the balance of flavour and texture in this dessert.   

Gingerbread Cheesecake Roll

As a departure from the usual cheesecake and for those seeking a challenge, this cheesecake roll by @IndulgewithMimi is a stunning addition to your holiday dessert table.

Full recipes and instructions for all the cheesecake finalists will be available @TreStelleCheese throughout December.

For more information on Tre Stelle Cream Cheese visit trestelle.ca