Peanut Butter Truffle Mousse Cheesecake
Fluffy peanut butter truffle mousse cheesecake topped with a peanut butter mousse layer and drizzled in warm peanut butter sauce.
I apologize to you in advance for this madness. But I do have a good excuse – last week my husband and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary! So he gave me a gorgeous ring and I gave him…a gorgeous cake (don’t you think?). But I couldn’t stop with peanut butter truffle mousse cheesecake. I mean, this is a once in a lifetime celebration, right?
Once in a lifetime, People!
Let’s break this down, shall we?
This fluffy and full cheesecake is resting on a chocolate peanut butter Oreo crust, topped off with a thick layer of peanut butter truffle mousse and Reese’s Cups. Then…well, then I felt the need to drizzle it with warm peanut butter sauce.
So I made my husband’s favorite dinner and then surprised him with this beauty. I ran out of time to make him a card though – that’s okay isn’t it? If you’ll excuse my ramblings for a minute let me just tell you how happy I am to be married to my best friend! We are high school sweethearts and had dated 6 years before we graduated college and got married. He still makes my heart go all aflutter and I am full to bursting with love for him. We laugh every day and truly enjoy one another’s company. Believe me when I say I count my blessings every day.
Happy anniversary, Husband!
I love you.
More than peanut butter.
Peanut Butter Truffle Mousse Cheesecake Recipe
Ingredients
- Crust:
- 2 cups crushed peanut butter Oreos, approx. half a pack
- ¼ cup butter, meltedCheesecake:
- 4 8oz sticks of cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extractPeanut Butter Truffle Mousse
- 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
- 2/3 cup peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 8 oz tubs Cool Whip
- Reese’s Cups, optional
Instructions
- Crust:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Wrap a 9 inch springform pan in heavy duty foil.
- Mix together crushed Oreos and melted butter and press into the bottom of your pan and up the sides. Bake for 7 minutes and cool on a wire rack.
- Cheesecake:
- Boil a large pot of water for the water bath.
- In the bowl of your mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the sugar and cream cheese and cream together until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time making sure to scrape down the bowl in between each egg. Add heavy cream and vanilla and mix until creamy and smooth.
- Pour batter into prepared crust. Place pan into a larger pan and pour boiling water into the larger pan until halfway up the side of the cheesecake pan.
- Bake 45 to 55 minutes until the edges appear to be set. The center will still have some jiggle to it. Close the oven door, turn the heat off, and let rest in the cooling oven for 1 hour.
- After 1 hour has passed, remove the cheesecake from the water bath and place on a cooling rack to cool completely. Once the cake is completely cooled, chill for at least 5 hours (overnight is better).
- The next morning assemble the PB Truffle Mousse:
- In the bowl of your mixer combine cream cheese, peanut butter and milk until smooth.
- Slowly beat in powdered sugar then fold in the Cool Whip.
- Spoon over the cheesecake then chill at least 3 hours. Garnish with peanut butter cups.
Now if you’ll excuse me?
I have some leftovers that need some attention.
153 Comments on “Peanut Butter Truffle Mousse Cheesecake”
just incredible!! I would eat that lovely mousse cake until I burst!
Congratulation on your anniversary, here's to many many more!
Happy anniversary! I just had to stop in to say that is one beautiful cake! I love your pictures, especially with the peanut butter glaze dribbling down the sides. Yum!
Wow this looks delicious! My husband and I were high school sweethearts who waited 6 yrs before getting married too! You don't hear that much anymore. Congrats on the anniversary and dessert!
Happy Anniversary to both of you!
OMG I wish I was your neighbor and you had leftovers, cuz I'd be right over!
Drool…. this looks SO good. Can I claim a piece?
Peanut butter/truffle/mousse/cheesecake…..YES! I'll take all of it! BEAUTIFUL cake Katrina! And Happy Anniversary to you and your hubs! : )
I think you really might have had me in mind when you made this, totally my kind of dessert, love, love, love it!
Are you kidding me? OMG! I love peanut butter! (Now, this is lo-cal, right?)
You crack me up! LOL! Thanks 🙂
I am well known for not liking peanut butter. You may have momentarily changed my mind with this 😀
Happy Anniversary!! I discovered you while snooping around at Cookies and Cups, and man am I glad I clicked over!! I felt me pants tighten just by looking at these pictures!!! I've already gone back and read ALL of your archives. Holy cow, I'm hungry! 🙂
Oh. My. God. This cake! It's a mini version of my personal heaven! Can you make me a really big one that I can live inside? Holy smokes…your husband = luckiest person alive 🙂
Happy Anniversary!
That is one serious looking cheesecake!! WOW
I've been dreaming of making some sort of mousse layered cake and this looks incredible! I'd like two slices stat (pretty please)!
This is my favorite comment! lol 🙂
Thanks Tina! It was a fun dessert to make.
Thank you Averie! You are always so encouraging! Well I will take PB in any form…so I'm headed over right now to gawk at your cookies! 😉
Happy Anniversary, Katrina! Wow, what a gorgeous dessert for a special day… your husband is a lucky man! 🙂 Thanks for sharing this with us…
This recipe is award worthy!! Printed it out…can't decide if should make for my son-in-law (peanut-butter freak) on a special occasion or pass it on to my daughter to make for him!
Congratulations upon 10 years of a blissful marriage…a very rare thing!
Happy Anniversary Katrina 🙂 This cake screams love !! Looks at all that soft cheese and that buttery mousse .. what better gift than this .. celebrating with food is the best celebration.
I wish you both many many many more years of awsm celebration 🙂
Wow! This is perfection! I'd be pretty darn happy if someone made this for me, that's for sure. Love the photos, too.
Happy Anniversary! The cheesecake looks incredibly decadent and perfect!!!
Just beautiful! And the cheesecake, too. I think you outdid yourself. Happy anniversary! But what did the ring look like?!?
I knew you would come up with something awesome!! Love that picture with all the descriptive words. Have a great day!
This cake looks gorgeous, Katrina! A very happy anniversary to you!!! What a wonderful way to celebrate!
xoxo,
Tammy
Happy Anniversary……..!!!!
I dont have word to actually describe the cake………………..all i can say is WOW..!!! Dying for a slice
Have a Happy Anniversary, I wish you at least 50 more…and what a cake!!!! I CAN ONLY SAY WOWWWWWWWW and than drool over it LOL!!!
Looks delightful, and delicious, and perfect for any occasion!
This looks like a pretty darn good anniversary gift to me! I'd marry you for it:-) Happy anniversary, I'm so happy for you and your husband!
I loove those kind of cake! Yours look amazing! And the flavours are perfect… i'm dying for a big slice!
HOLY CRAP. This is like the culmination of all things magnificent in life. Oh, and happy anniversary too. 10 years, AWESOME!
Ridiculous.
That's all I have to say.
Ri. Dic. U. Lous.
Ooooh this looks so good. I love the truffle mousse layer I just want to lick if off the screen from your pictures!
Oh. My. Goodness. There are no words for this heaven. You have rendered me speechless!
Wow. That is amazing in so many ways. Your husband is one lucky guy – as are you (jewelry is always a bonus!). Happy 10th and to 10 more! ~ Courtney
Love him more than peanut butter? He must be a great guy! 🙂 This is an amazing looking dessert and I would be happy to have a few slices too.
What a tasty anniversary treat! I bet you both enjoyed it plenty 🙂 As for the card bit… pretty sure hubs and I have never exchanged cards. We truly meant to on our first anniversary or maybe it was the second? We both had blank cards that were never given to the other – so you're totally excused… this cheesecake totally makes up for it 😉
Happy Anniversary!
Ours will be 20 years at the end of May in 2012 — I won't be baking, I want us to do something very nice.
Now that is a show stopper. Stunning!
Happy anniversary!
Wow. That is an impressive cake. I would love to have something special in the very near future to make this for. OMG it looks so good!
Congratulations on the anniversary!
Wow, this is a creamy, dreamy showstopper! Happy 10th anniversary!
This looks so rich and decadent! Congrats on 10 years and a wonderful marraige! I just had my 11 year anniversary and I too count my blessings for my wonderful amazing hard working husband every day.
Ohmy!!! This looks extra fantastic! I don't usually like mousse but I'd dive right into this!! 🙂
Happy Anniversary!! This is one amazing dessert! I can't get over how pretty and absolutely delicious it sounds! I celebrate my 10 year next month, and I am trying to think of what to do!
Love more than peanut butter is a pretty amazing love! Congrats and great cheesecake!
Wow. I mean wow. First of all congratulations on your anniversary!!! So happy for you both. Second of all, I want to marry you now…lol. Just so you can make me this!!
Awesome dessert for your anniversary. Very tempting, tall and fluffy with peanut butter! Great pics and happy anniversary!
Amazing cake with PB! Looks great and must have tasted great.
Happy 10th anniversary! If I had the choice between this peanut butter mousse cheesecake and a ring, I'd take the cake in a heartbeat! It looks SO amazing!
Wow, Katrina, this looks…AMAZING!
I just posted about PB cookies. You have me beat with this PB creation. One layer after the next could just be eaten..on it's own. Wow!! Delicious and your photography is brilliant, too!
Happy anniversary! Your husband is one lucky man, this cake looks to die for!!