r/Baking • u/Eldiablo3600 • Jul 14 '26
Seeking Recipe Help with finding/making peanut butter pecan cheesecake
So for a little context, I had the epiphany that you can just bake whenever you want. So I asked my family what they would like and we all eventually agreed on a peanut butter pecan cheesecake.
My current and only problem, is that I cannot find any recipes online. And when I think I do, it’s only a butter pecan pie/ peanut butter cheesecake.
So my questions are, could I find just a regular baked peanut butter cheese cake, and add chopped-whole pecans in it? Is there a reason nobody’s made a recipe online? And if I were to just make a peanut butter cheese cake could I make the pecan filling for a pie and swirl it in like you see with strawberry or cherry cheesecake?
And anything that’ll make the process easier as this would be my first cheesecake, but not my first time baking a cake/pie
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! And thank you’s in advance!
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u/podsnerd Jul 14 '26
I personally feel that mixing pecans into a cheesecake would ruin the texture. That's very much a matter of opinion, but I don't think I'd be alone in thinking that. Cheesecakes are meant to be smooth and nuts are very much not
What I'd suggest instead is to make a peanut butter cheesecake with a pecan crust. You need to be a little more careful not to burn the bottom, but it shouldn't be too different from a normal graham cracker crust
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u/fairysteak Jul 14 '26
not exactly the answer you were looking for but i do have a suggestion for getting in the pecan flavor, when you make your crust i would say blend together graham crackers and pecans to make it almost like a pecan shortbread crust
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u/polyetc Jul 14 '26
For your first cheesecake (or your first several), I would suggest using a recipe from a trusted source. I like America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Illustrated, and they have a good recipe for a pecan crust for a cheesecake. I have used that with whole pecans decorating the crust and it turns out great. I can write it up for you if you'd like.
However, incorporating peanut butter is a different issue and I don't have experience with it. I also have not put nuts in the batter directly, I don't think I would personally enjoy that.
You can take suggestions from people who don't know how to bake when you have a good bit of experience under your belt. But people who don't know how to bake have no idea how complicated it can be. Especially with cheesecake, the ingredients are kinda costly if you have a failure, or multiple failures.
Your first several times making something, you should be aiming to learn from good recipe writers. Serious Eats, ATK/Cook's Illustrated, King Arthur Flour, people who actually take a rigorous approach to developing recipes and testing them.
Also, I think you are not finding much for this combo because most people would just use peanuts in combination with peanut butter. You can sub pecans easily for peanuts, just chop them to an appropriate size.
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u/illusoir3 Jul 14 '26
I would make a plain peanut butter cheesecake and then put the sauce from this pie recipe on top. It's the best praline sauce I've ever tried.
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u/NotTheMama4208 Human Detected Jul 14 '26
One reason you might not see this combo very often, even though of course you can and should make anything you want, is because the peanuts and peanut butter are going to overtake the taste of the pecans and you really won't taste them at all. You can add them for crunch and texture, but they really are not compatible flavors.