hey everyone it's James from fun foods and today I'm gonna show you how to make this cotton candy
cheesecake now I recently made some hand pulled cotton candy which I use to
decorate this so you want to keep watching and I'll show you step-by-step
how to make this the first thing we want to do is start off with our base and to
make our base I'm gonna use animal crackers not just any animal
crackers these are the iced animal crackers they come with like pink and
white icing and we want to use about two cups worth so I want to measure out
about two cups so here's about one cup worth it doesn't have to be exact but
and I'm gonna put it in this plastic bag now you can put it in a food processor
or a blender if you like but I'm gonna use this plastic bag
in fact, I think I'm gonna go with three cups just to be on the safe side so
about three cups of animal crackers and we're gonna let out most of the air zip
it up or like I said use a food processor or blender and we're gonna
smash this into little bits using something heavy then you really want to go
through it and make sure you got all the big chunks crushed up all right so when
you're certain all your big chunks are crushed up what I have too is just to
make it nice and colorful I have these colorful sprinkles I'm gonna put half a
cup of colorful sprinkles in there let's mix that all in next I have a half a cup
or eight tablespoons of melted butter and I'm just going to pour it right in
my bag zip it up
and mix it all together now when you have that all mixed together I'm just
gonna use a springform pan that's one of these pans that come off like this and
if you want to get a hold of one I'll put a link in the description below
where you can get a hold one of these on Amazon I'm gonna just now take this my
crust and pour it all in there now you can take your hands and just smush it
around or you can take a bottom of a cup and smash this down in really good and
when that's packed in there real nicely we're just gonna take this put this in
the refrigerator while we work on our filling all right to make the filling
you're gonna start out with a large bowl and to that I'm gonna add two packages
of eight ounces cream cheese this has been softened at room temperature and
we're also gonna add one 14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
and because this is cotton candy flavored cheesecake I'm going to use
this DRAM of cotton candy flavor now if you can't find this where you are where
you're located I'll put a link in the description below where you can get a
hold of one of these now I'm not using the whole DRAM I'm only using about a
half because I've already used half for another recipe it's very strong now just
mix this all up until everything is well combined alright so when that's well
combined we're going to divide this into two separate bowls at this stage now
that we got them dividing them on color one of these pink with just some food
coloring gonna put just a couple little drops in there and for my second bowl
I'm gonna color this a real light blue almost a turquoise blue because there
are two flavors we associate with cotton candy alright so our crust has been
in the refrigerator while we're working on our filling and it's firmed up nicely it
doesn't take long now what we got to do is we're going to fill this with our
filling now I'm gonna start with some pink and I'm going to put about half
this pink in there right in the middle
and just kind of work it around a little bit doesn't have to go all the way to
the edges at this point then I'm going to put about half of my blue in there
but right smack dab in the middle of the pink and at this stage you just want to
tap this down and it'll start spreading out then for the rest of our pink
filling we're gonna put in there tap this down that's not good that clearly
was not supposed to happen and then finally we're gonna put our
last layer of blue on there now before I put it in the refrigerator to firm up
what I'm going to do is just for decorative purposes I'm gonna take some
of these colorful sprinkles and I'm gonna go around the edges just the edges
you can decorate it any way you like but this is how I'm going to do it
you can also put some of these little animal crackers around the edges as well
if you'd like
now just take us put this in your refrigerator so it firms up for a couple
hours and then we'll do the finishing touches of the decorating all right so
now after a few hours we can pull our cheesecake out of the refrigerator and
before I open it up I'm just gonna take a knife and go around the edges just
trying to keep it intact so it doesn't stick
let's pop it off and see if it holds its shape yes now that looks good but we
have to top it off with some cotton candy
now I've recently made some hand pulled cotton candy so I'm going to top this
off with some of that cotton candy now of course you can check that recipe I'll
put a link below and I'll put one of those cards above so you can see how to
make it for yourself so now it's time for the taste test I'm gonna dig into
this and see if it tastes like cotton candy
make sure getting a little bit of that pulled cotton candy a little bit across
everything it's good it really does have a cotton candy taste not just because I
ate the cotton candy on top but the flavour when we put it in there really
good well thanks everyone for watching I hope you enjoyed watching me make this
cotton candy cheesecake it was a lot of fun and it tasted pretty good so I hope
you get a chance to make it for yourself and if you do please share with me on
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