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Dutch pepernoten cheesecake Vegetarian

Name: Dutch pepernoten cheesecake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12 persons
Cuisine: Dutch
Ingredients: 700 grams plain cream cheese; 100 grams of icing sugar; 40 grams of flour; 4 eggs; 2 tablespoons orange liqueur (Cointreau or triple sec); 1 teaspoon speculaas spice mix; 2 big handfuls of kruidnoten biscuits; 50 grams of butter; half pack of bastogne biscuits

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This pepernoten cheesecake gives a Dutch twist to the traditional New York cheesecake. Baked to perfection, it is delicious served with extra kruidnoten biscuits.

Nutrition balance score

Good

7.3/10

Glycemic Index

Glycemic Load

58.36 (Medium)

16.14 (Medium)

Nutrition per serving

Kcal

392.94 kcal

Carbohydrates
Of which sugars

27.66 g
19.21 g

Total fat
Of which saturated fats

27.06 g
17.34 g

Proteins

9.21 g

Fiber

0.83 g

Sodium

240.16 mg

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Recipe dutch pepernoten cheesecake

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Made by Véronique

Published at 2021-11-15, this recipe is for 12 persons and takes 45 minutes.

Founder of Ohmydish (since 2014), she prefers to spend all day in the kitchen. Once working in the hospitality industry as an independent chef, she loves helping you gain confidence in the kitchen. With her easy-to-follow recipes, handy tips, and cooking knowledge, you'll make the most delicious dishes yourself! The recipes are accessible to everyone, from beginners to advanced home cooks.

Updated at: 2025-10-04

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Preparation time

10 minutes

Time cooking

35 minutes

Total time

45 minutes

Preparation – 10 minutes

Preheat the oven to 150 degrees celsius. Grease the springform cake tin with butter and line the base with baking parchment. Blitz the bastogne biscuits in a blender, or put them in a resealable bag and crush them with a rolling pin.

Melt the butter in a small saucepan and add the bastogne crumbs. Mix well and spread the bastogne mixture over the bottom of the cake tin. Press down well and make sure there are no visible holes.

Add the cream cheese, 4 eggs and icing sugar to the bowl of the food processor. Blend on high speed until smooth. Add the cointreau and speculaas spice mix. Blend well again. Pour the mixture into the cake tin.

Finishing the pepernoten cheesecake – 35 minutes

Bake the cheesecake for 30 - 35 minutes at 150 degrees celsius. Do not open the oven door during cooking, or the cheesecake may collapse.

Leave the oven door ajar and do not remove the cheesecake from the oven after baking until it has cooled down a bit. Once you have removed the cheesecake from the oven, let it cool completely to room temperature and then place it in the fridge.

Serve with extra kruidnoten biscuits. Enjoy!

Tips!

Which cream cheese for cheesecake?

You can basically use any kind of plain cream cheese you want. This could be Philadelphia, but cheaper brands or supermarket own brand cream cheese is also fine.

Can I replace the bastogne biscuits?

Yes you can also make the base from crumbled kruidnoten biscuits.

Where can I buy kruidnoten and bastogne biscuits?

Both of these types of biscuit are very familiar to Dutch consumers. If you live outside the Netherlands, you may need to shop online to find them

What is speculaas?

Speculaas is a type of spiced biscuit / cookie which is popular in the Netherlands. It is similar to the Belgian Speculoos biscuit / cookie, which is more readily available in the UK and USA (known as a Biscoff biscuit / cookie).

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Nutritional values

Per 1 serving / piece:

Pay attention! These indicated nutritional values are based on standard tables and are therefore an estimated total. No rights can be derived from the data in the nutritional value table.

General

Kcal

392.94 kcal

Carbohydrates
Of which sugars

27.66 g
19.21 g

Total fat
Of which saturated fats

27.06 g
17.34 g

Proteins

9.21 g

Fiber

0.83 g

Sodium

240.16 mg

Show vitamines & minerals

Minerals

Iron

0.87 mg

Calcium

78.40 mg

Magnesium

16.12 mg

Potassium

16.12 mg

Phosphorus

121.38 mg

Copper

0.06 mg

Zinc

0.85 mg

Iodine

7.00 µg

Selenium

7.16 µg

Vitamins

Vitamine C

0.02 mg

Vitamine D

0.83 mg

Vitamine A

22.91 mg

Vitamine B1

0.06 mg

Vitamine B2

0.16 mg

Vitamine B6

0.11 mg

Vitamine B12

1.04 µg

Folic acid

20.18 µg

Vitamine E

0.43 mg

Vitamine K

0.40 µg

Vitamine K1

0.00 µg

Handy! Scroll this table horizontally to see all nutritional values per ingredient

Amount		Ingredient	Allergens	Kcal	Carbs	Carbs of which sugars	Fat	Fat of which saturated	Protein	Fibers	Sodium	Iron	Calcium	Magnesium	Potassium	Phosphorus	Copper	Zinc	Iodine	Selenium	Vitamin C	Vitamin D	Vitamin A	Vitamin B1	Vitamin B2	Vitamin B6	Vitamin B12	Vitamin B11	Vitamin E	Vitamin K	Vitamin K1
58.33	gram	plain cream cheese	milk	190.17	1.46 g	1.46 g	18.73 g	12.89 g	4.67 g	-	163.33 mg	0.06 mg	58.33 mg	5.83 mg	64.17 mg	49.58 mg	-	0.35 mg	-	-	-	0.41 mg	0.33 mg	0.01 mg	0.06 mg	0.03 mg	0.58 µg	5.83 µg	-	-	-
8.33	gram	of icing sugar		33.83	8.33 g	8.33 g	-	-	-	-	-	0.01 mg	-	0.17 mg	0.42 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3.33	gram	of flour	gluten	12.13	2.33 g	0.05 g	0.05 g	0.01 g	0.38 g	0.09 g	0.07 mg	0.03 mg	0.67 mg	0.67 mg	6.00 mg	3.33 mg	0.01 mg	0.04 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.01 mg	-	1.17 µg	-	-	-
0.33		eggs	egg	28.80	0.22 g	0.04 g	2.00 g	0.50 g	2.50 g	-	24.00 mg	0.36 mg	10.00 mg	2.00 mg	26.00 mg	36.00 mg	0.02 mg	0.26 mg	7.00 µg	6.14 µg	-	0.36 mg	0.04 mg	0.02 mg	0.06 mg	0.03 mg	0.46 µg	12.00 µg	0.22 mg	0.05 µg	-
0.17	tablespoon	orange liqueur		6.00	0.66 g	0.66 g	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
0.08	teaspoon	speculaas spice mix		0.77	0.18 g	-	0.03 g	-	0.01 g	0.02 g	0.05 mg	0.01 mg	0.50 mg	0.20 mg	1.25 mg	0.38 mg	-	0.01 mg	-	0.02 µg	0.02 mg	-	12.50 mg	-	-	-	-	0.10 µg	0.01 mg	0.25 µg	-
0.17	big handful	of kruidnoten biscuits	gluten, soy	45.00	6.00 g	3.00 g	2.00 g	1.20 g	0.70 g	0.50 g	20.00 mg	0.20 mg	5.00 mg	5.00 mg	20.00 mg	15.00 mg	0.02 mg	0.15 mg	-	1.00 µg	-	-	10.00 mg	0.02 mg	0.03 mg	0.03 mg	-	-	0.20 mg	0.10 µg	-
4.17	gram	of butter	milk	30.63	0.03 g	0.03 g	3.44 g	2.25 g	0.03 g	-	0.21 mg	-	0.54 mg	0.08 mg	0.63 mg	0.83 mg	-	-	-	-	-	0.05 mg	0.04 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
0.04	pack	of bastogne biscuits	egg, gluten	45.61	8.45 g	5.63 g	0.81 g	0.49 g	0.92 g	0.22 g	32.50 mg	0.20 mg	3.36 mg	2.17 mg	16.25 mg	16.25 mg	0.01 mg	0.04 mg	-	-	-	0.01 mg	-	-	-	-	-	1.08 µg	-	-	-
				392.94	27.66 g	19.21 g	27.06 g	17.34 g	9.21 g	0.83 g	240.16 mg	0.87 mg	78.40 mg	16.12 mg	134.71 mg	121.38 mg	0.06 mg	0.85 mg	7.00 µg	7.16 µg	0.02 mg	0.83 mg	22.91 mg	0.06 mg	0.16 mg	0.11 mg	1.04 µg	20.18 µg	0.43 mg	0.40 µg	-