Mexican cheesecake
April 25, 2011
Life happens. This morning (Monday) I set out for it to be a nice beautiful and productive day. Little did I know that 3 hours into the day I would be wanting to crawl into a dark room and go back to sleep. I got my crying toddler off to school and I came back home for a little cooking show in my kitchen. Ten minutes in to prepping and I had already broken a dish. Luckily it was empty and I was just drying it to put some food in it. Fast forward and hour and I’m into the last segment of the show. I was in the middle of making an easy soup, or so I thought, when the browned meat in a large casserole dish EXPLODED.
EXPLODED people.
I’ve never in my 30 years of life ever had a dish explode right there in front of me. I was baffled, the camera guy was baffled.
Cue… me wanting to go back to bed. It took a while for me to clean up the mess since the dish was shattered all over the stove and the pieces were piping HOT. Luckily the first installment of the cooking show insisted on me making these EASY 30-minute Mexican cheesecake squares.
Now I am off to bed since I’ve updated the old recipe with new photos. Tomorrow will be another day!
ENJOY ~ Meagan
Mexican cheesecake
Yield:
16 squares
Prep Time:
10 minutes
Cook Time:
20 minutes
Total Time:
30 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 8 ounce packages original crescent rolls
- 2 8 ounce packages cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 stick or 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1 1/4 cup sugar, divided
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Spray the bottom of a 9 X 13 casserole dish with non-stick spray and lay out one package of crescent rolls on the bottom. Bake in the oven for 4 minutes and then remove. Place the cream cheese on top of the crescent roll and let it warm. Slowly spread the mixture over the top of the bread. In a bowl combine butter, 1 cup sugar and vanilla. Pour over the top of the cream cheese. Top with other package of crescent rolls. In a small bowl combine the rest of the sugar and cinnamon together. Sprinkle over the top of the crescent rolls.
Bake in the oven for 20-23 minutes.
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I’ve never heard of Mexican cheesecake before, but it looks delicious. I’ll have to give it a try.
Not only does this sound super easy, but I am so intrigued by the cresent rolls! I gotta try this!!
I’ve never heard of Mexican Cheesecake either… Seems kinda similar to Cuban Cheeserolls? Either way the ingredients sound delish and I love that this is so easy!
This sounds a lot “lighter” (and faster) than the frozen bread dough version that went around a number of years ago. (I won’t say HOW many years ago…) 🙂 Great idea — thanks!
Wow, this looks and sounds delightful! I love a short ingredient list. I am adding this to my recipe file.
Mmmmm…now how could this be bad???? It sounds incredible…I know my family would approve 🙂
Delightful!! Delicious! and so simple too.
How interesting that you used crescent rolls! This sounds so easy and the rolls has to simplify everything even more. Do you think packaged puff pastry would work instead of crescent rolls?
I agree with rochelle! That’s such a cool idea to use crescent rolls! This little mexican cheesecake looks awesome and very tasty!
I did actually make this dish, and yes, it is even better then y’all expect…I did add a prune and berry sauce with home made whipped cream….
edit *meant to say plum*
Had this recipe last night, this is absolutely delicious! Warm, right out if the oven you can’t go wrong, when it cools off it’s just as good, a new favorite!
Our cadette Girl Scouts made this last night to earn their cooking badges and it was AMAZING. They didn’t add the second crescent roll, and I’m glad they didn’t. I’ll be making this tonight for our Bible study group, also without the additional crescent roll, and I can’t wait to see what they all think!
We had friends bring this to a cookout Memorial Day. Delicious. Now I’m making it today to take to another friends cookout. Really could not be simpler, most things you probably already have on hand. Don’t usually have crescent rolls in fridge, but I just happened to this week.now they will become a staple rot this recipe alone 🥰
My cousin madr this for a fourth of July picnic and it I’d delicious. I’m so excited to have this recipe to make it for our family reunion. I ❤️ easy, delicious food that gets people talking.
These cheesecakes look very appetizing, I also love to prepare food, just that since I have a child going to school I also don’t have time for it, but I still decided that I will take care of what I like as much as it wouldn’t cost me and I found this source https://gradesfixer.com/essay-types/compare-and-contrast-essays/ that helps my child a lot with school, more specifically with writing, it is very nice to understand that in the internet there is so much information, that I shouldn’t help my child and he independently could do everything.
Just took this out of my oven. Smells awesome, super easy to make. I can’t wait for it to cool. I love cooking and Block Blast puzzle game.
Wow, it sounds like quite the chaotic morning! It’s impressive that you kept going despite all the contexto mishaps.
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I’m eating what you have in your picture right now. The only difference is that I bought it at the mazagin)))
This sounds like one of those chaotic Mondays we all get. I’ve had days where even Bloxstrapper decides to stop working and Roblox crashes mid-build… but dessert like this? Totally worth it. 🙌 Easy, sweet, and made in under 30 minutes? Bookmarked!