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Home | Recipes | Lemon Poppy Seed Bread Cheesecake with Earl Grey Crème Anglaise
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Lemon Poppy Seed Bread Cheesecake with Earl Grey Crème Anglaise

Elevate this thaw-and-serve cheesecake with a homemade sauce.

  • Sysco Culinary Team
  • Houston, TX
  • Servings

    14

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The versatile Sysco Imperial Lemon Poppy Seed Bread Cheesecake is baked in a graham cracker crust and topped with real whipped cream and lemon poppy seed crumbles. Here, we have paired it with a rich crème anglaise and delicate sugared mint leaves.

Ingredients

Lemon Curd

Earl Grey Crème Anglaise

Sugared Mint Leaves

For Serving

Directions

For the Lemon Curd

  1. Heat sugar, lemon juice, butter, and zest to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat, whisking occasionally.
  2. Whisk eggs and yolks in a bowl. Slowly add half the sugar mixture to the egg mixture while whisking constantly.
  3. Add egg-sugar mixture back to saucepan. Cook until mixture thickens, about 4 minutes, whisking constantly.
  4. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve; cover surface with plastic wrap.
  5. Refrigerate in an airtight container up to 6 days. Makes about 1½ cups.

For the Earl Grey Crème Anglaise

  1. Heat half and half and milk to a simmer in a saucepan over medium-high heat.
  2. Add tea bags and remove from heat. Cover saucepan; steep 30 minutes.
  3. Discard tea bags; heat to a simmer over medium-high heat.
  4. Whisk yolks and sugar in a bowl. Slowly add half the half and half mixture to the egg mixture while whisking constantly; add half and half–egg mixture back to saucepan.
  5. Cook over medium-low heat until sauce thickens slightly, about
    15 minutes, whisking frequently.
  6. Refrigerate in an airtight container up to 6 days. Makes about 3 cups.

For the Sugared Mint Leaves

  1. Beat egg white in a bowl until frothy, about 1 minute.
  2. Brush both sides of mint leaves with egg white; sprinkle both sides with sugar.
  3. Dry mint leaves on a parchment-lined sheet tray 4 hours or up to overnight. Store in an airtight container up to 3 days.

For Serving

  1. Serve 1 slice cheesecake drizzled with Earl Grey Crème Anglaise garnished with Lemon Curd, Sugared Mint Leaves, and raspberries.

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Lemon Poppy Seed Bread Cheesecake With Earl Grey Creme Anglaise
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