Neapolitan Cheesecake… new from Stella Mitsak of Youngstown, Ohio. One layer is chocolate, one vanilla on a butter crust.
So, TIL that there was never an Ann Pillsbury. She was a made-up face of the Pillsbury company- much like Betty Crocker was the made-up face of the company “named” after her.
There was a Stella Mitsak though. Her recipe was submitted to the Pillsbury Company and was printed in newspapers (January 1963)` and possibly in at least one of the Pillsbury Bake-Off Books (I’ll be honest, it’s late and I don’t feel like digging through my books).
I’ll admit I sometimes do wonder what happened to the people whose recipes I post- a quick Google (and FamilySearch) indicates that Stella lived until she was almost 84 (dying in 2002).
Neapolitan Cheese Cake
Servings: 9
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup pink candy after dinner mints crushed
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- ½ cup Butter
Filling
- 6 oz semi-sweet chocolate morsels
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
- ¾ cup milk
- 2 egg yolks slightly beaten
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 egg whites
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 cup whipping cream
Instructions
Crust
- Combine 1 cup flour, ½ cup crushed pink candy after-dinner mints, 1 tsp vanilla in a mixing bowl.
- Cut in ½ cup butter until fine.
- Place in bottom of 8"x8"x2" or 9"x9"x2" pan.
- Bake at 400° for 12-15 minutes.
- Cool.
Chocolate Vanilla Filling
- Melt 6-oz of Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels or Chips over hot water, cool.
- Combine ⅓ cup sugar, ¼ tsp salt, 1 envelope unflavored gelatin in 2-quart saucepan.
- Add ¾ cup of milk and 2 slightly beaten egg yolks.
- Cook, stirring constantly until mixture boils.
- Remove from heat.
- Blend in 8 oz package of cream cheese and 1 tsp of vanilla; beat until smooth.
- Cool.
- Beat two egg whites until mounds form.
- Gradually add ¼ cup sugar; beat until stiff.
- Fold in cheese mixture.
- Beat 1 cup whipping cream until thick.
- Fold into cheese mixture.
- Divide mixture in half.
- Fold melted chocolate into one half of mixture.
- Spoon over baked crust.
- Spoon vanilla filling over chocolate filling.
- Cover with plastic wrap.
- Chill at least two hours.
- Sprinkle with crushed candy after dinner-mints before serving.
