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”
can I ask what peanut butter do you use to make this cheesecake. I live in Australia and I am unsure if u meant those peanut butter spread?
Yes I used peanut butter spread. Thanks for asking- and hello from the other side of the world! 🙂
This looks fab – so I made it. The parts all tasted great, but I wonder if I messed up the topping as it was not as thick nor did it set as well as yours. I, therefore, feel I may have not have put in enough Cool Whip. I used the 12 oz tub size and I just realized that the smaller ones are 8 oz and that there are 16 oz tubs as well. Ergo, I am thinking I needed 16 oz instead. Is that what you used? It still tasted great (even had an office friend call me a culinary genius – ha – can you imagine?).
This looks so amazing. What a wonderful gift and i must also add i love your blog Katrina
Thank you very much for sharing this recipe. My youngest daughter loves peanut butter so I’ll make it for her next time she comes home from Barcelona.
I’ll be able to put on top those Reese’s cups because there is a store in Madrid “American Taste” that sells them!
I made this last week for my boyfriend's birthday and it was a HIT! Since we hadn't installed the AC unit yet and we had an unexpectedly hot evening I had to keep it in the freezer so the mousse wouldn't ooze off the top, which took away from some of the fluffiness of the cheesecake but it was still to die for. There wasn't a lick left! Thank you!
Happy Anniversary. Yours sounds like a story straight out of the movies. This cheesecake is amazing!! So happy to have found your blog
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Makes me wonder what you did for the next anniversary?? Mmmm! I followed a trail from this Sweet Sixteen Collection to your blog, and I'm glad I did! Thanks for sharing…and Congratulations!
All i can say is wow this looks amazingly delicious. I want some now
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What an amazing creation! I reckon it would be great as a mousse but then to put it into a cheesecake would be my idea of heaven!
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i remember the oreo cheesecake of starbucks.
Oh my goodness! This is one of the most gorgeously decadent looknig desserts I've seen in a long, long time. How did I miss this? A few months belated, but Happy Anniversary! 🙂
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Hi Katrina,
I found this recipe through Love from the Oven. I do have one question and I hope you can help me out: I'd like to use homemade whipped cream instead of Cool Whip. Will that mess up the mousse recipe? If subbing it, what measurements do you think will make it equivalent?
Thank you for this recipe. Can't wait to try it. I'm making this for my son's baptism next week. I hope it turns out great. Wish me luck!
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This looks so amazing and decadent. I need to try and make this immediately.
Thanks for sharing.
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Hi, what brand of peanut butter do you use?
thanks
Im sorry I really cannot get the words out right now I am to busy drooling over this cake.
Happy Anniversary!
I want some. I really want some. I had a PBJ donut in NYC this weekend and I can't stop thinking about peanut butter.
Hi Katrina! I loved your post for this PB Mousse Cheesecake and I will be featuring a link to your blog tomorrow on my Notepad Features. Thank you for sharing!
UNBELIEVABLE!!!
I think my heart just stopped beating for a minute there. This cake. Oh my…and the glaze! What's a girl to do??? I must make this!!! Thanks for sharing and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!
Wow… I mean just wow… my jaw dropped when I saw it! Looks absolutely spectacular!.. and the texture of that mousse looks so light and perfect!
wow wow wow looks amazing!
You're right…this recipe is absolute madness and I MUST try it! Thanks for sharing=)
LOL you crack me up 😉 I would share a slice if I could.
Stacy – This makes me SO happy!! Do you have any photos to share? I have an album on my facebook page where I post my readers' recreations of my recipies. I'd love to see this recreated!!
It was a little bit much! lol But I wanted to celebrate in a big way 😀
Thanks so much Jamie – I am overwhelmed by your kind words 🙂
Ooh! Keep me updated!!
Thanks Megan!
Thank you so much Audra. That is so kind of you! 🙂
Thank you for this recipe! I have been declared a culinary genius. Ok, maybe not, but it was mightily enjoyed and admired by everyone. And, happy anniversary!
Thank you for posting this, I will make this next month for my boyfriend 🙂 I've been looking for something good and easy (I'm currently sharing a kitchen right now and have shied away from baking and cooking projects. (For some reason I don't like anyone to be around when I bake, I get nervous o-o) )
Looks great though and can't wait to make it *_*
Ohhhhhh I so wish I had a slice.
Happy anniversary! This cake looks and sounds over the top amazing! I am definitely bookmarking it for a special occasion 🙂 Thank you!
I love peanut butter anything, so of course this dessert looks DELISH to me. Congrats on the 10 years of marriage.
Wowee! Happy Anniversary – ours is today! This is some stunning cake and ooooh love the flavors. You are one talented baker! Gorgeous gorgeous cake!
Your Peanut Butter Truffle Mousse Cheesecake looks like heaven!! my husband would die for this! Happy Anniversary to you and your husband!! Hope you have many many more!
Happy anniversary! What a nice little dessert treat for your hubby on your special day. It is absolutely gorgeous!
I am so excited to begin making this today! We have friends coming over to play cards tomorrow evening and this will be our dessert. Yippee!
I did go just a teensy bit overboard with peanut butter, didn't i?! lol
I've been meaning to comment on this since you posted but keep forgetting. Everything about this post is so beautiful Katrina! That cheesecake is stunning and looks absolutely delicious! You have one lucky husband!
Love love love gorgeous food and this cake looks fabulous!
Happy Anniversary!! This cheesecake is freakin' amazing!!! Will you marry me?! 🙂
This looks fabulous! I am salivating. Happy anniversary to you!
Amazingly beautiful pictures, some of the best I have seen. And the recipe, amazing!!! Will try soon 🙂
Congratulations all around! On a Blessed 10 yr Anniversary, on this decadent cheesecake, and making into the Top 9!
All things in moderation! ha ha! Make sure you have a bunch of people to share with…a little slice goes a long way!
Thanks! I just had to break it down and stare at it for a moment or 2 myself. lol
Yes this is seriousl. Because I *really* love peanut butter 🙂 lol
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