Pressure Cooker Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake
This peanut butter cup cheesecake is a creamy peanut butter chocolate chip cheesecake with an Oreo cookie crust. The decadent cheesecake drips with milk chocolate ganache and chopped peanut butter cups on top. This is one of our best pressure cooker cheesecake recipes, and a real show stopper!
Connie, a Pressure Cooking Today and a Barbara Bakes reader asked if I could change my Peanut Butter Cheesecake Chocolate Cake in to a pressure cooker cheesecake recipe. I thought that was a great idea.
Making Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake in an Instant Pot
I used my Pressure Cooker Samoa Cheesecake recipe as a starting point, adding peanut butter and chocolate chips to the cheesecake batter. Then I topped it the way the chocolate cake is topped, with chocolate ganache and peanut butter cups.
The result was fabulous.
This Pressure Cooker Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake is super smooth, rich, and creamy. Just a little slice is all you need to satisfy your peanut butter cup cravings.
Connie said her two other favorite cheesecakes are Toffee Coffee Cheesecake and Dulce de Leche Cheesecake. I guess I’ll have to try to create recipes for those flavors soon.
Before you get started, be sure and read my Making Perfect Pressure Cooker Cheesecake posts for additional tips.
Pressure Cooker Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake
Ingredients:
- 1 cup crushed Oreo cookie crumbs
- 2 tablespoons butter melted
Filling
- 12-ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1 egg yolk, room temperature
- 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Topping
- 6 oz. milk chocolate, finely chopped
- 1/3 cup heavy cream
- 2/3 cup coarsely chopped peanut butter cups
Directions:
Prepare a 7 inch springform pan by coating it with a non-stick spray.
In a small bowl, combine the Oreo cookie crumbs and butter. Spread evenly in the bottom and up the side of the pan. Place in the freezer for 10 minutes.
In a mixing bowl mix cream cheese and sugar at medium speed until smooth, blend in peanut butter, heavy cream, vanilla, and flour. Mix in eggs one at a time just until blended; don’t over mix. Stir in chocolate chips.
Pour batter into the springform pan on top of the crust. Cover top of springform pan with aluminum foil.
Pour 1 cup of water into the pressure cooking pot, and place the trivet in the bottom. Carefully center the filled pan on a foil sling* and lower it into the pressure cooking pot. Fold the foil sling down so that it doesn’t interfere with closing the lid.
Lock the lid in place. Select High Pressure and set the timer for 50 minutes. When beep sounds, turn off pressure cooker. use a natural pressure release for 10 minutes, and then do a quick pressure release to release any remaining pressure. When valve drops carefully remove lid. Remove cheesecake and check the cheesecake to see if the middle is set. If not, cook the cheesecake an additional 5 minutes.
Remove the springform pan to a wire rack to cool. Remove aluminum foil. When cheesecake is cooled, refrigerate covered with plastic wrap for at least 4 hours or overnight.
When cheesecake is chilled, prepare topping:
Place half of the chocolate in a mixing bowl. Heat heavy cream on medium high heat until it comes to a boil. Remove from heat and immediately pour cream over chocolate and stir until chocolate is completely melted. Add remain chocolate and stir until chocolate is completely melted. Cool until ganache is thickened but still thin enough to drip down the sides of the cheesecake.
Spoon chocolate ganache on top of the cheesecake, spreading to edges and letting the ganache drip down the sides. Pile coarsely chopped peanut butter cup chocolates on top. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
*Make a sling with a 20 inch piece of aluminum foil, folded three times length wise.
Can you show a picture of the sling?
Hi Rebecca – I did an entire post about the sling and other methods https://www.pressurecookingtoday.com/how-to-get-a-pan-out-of-the-pressure-cooker/
Hi I just purchased your book The Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook and can’t wait to try the recipes. I was glancing through it and I came across your recipe for Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake…..I ended up googleing the recipe because I was confused the picture has chocolate in the filling and not in the recipe for the filling. When I pulled up the recipe on line yep it says 3/4 cup semisweet Choc. Chips but it is omitted in the cookbook.
Hi Angela – thanks for purchasing my cookbook. This cheesecake is amazing! Some people commented that chocolate chips in the cheesecake was too much chocolate, so I omitted it in the cookbook recipe. We weren’t initially going to include the picture of this cheesecake in the cookbook but added it last minute. There are some other minor errors in the cookbook listed at the bottom of this post https://www.pressurecookingtoday.com/electric-pressure-cooker-cookbook/ Enjoy!
Thanks for the updates in the cookbook.
BTW too much chocolate never.
lol – never 🙂
I made this cheesecake today. I made the NY style cheesecake #17 recipe 2 weeks ago and it turned out amazing. I can’t wait to taste this one.
My question is, what’s the reason for covering the top of the cheesecake with foil while it cooks? The other one I made didn’t have me do that and it turned out great. Just curious.
Nicole
Hi Nicole – covering the cheesecake eliminates water droplets from getting on the top of the cheesecake. In most of my recipes I no longer cover it with foil because it does slow down the cooking. It’s really just a matter of preference. Hope you love this cheesecake!
Why does it need to cook 50 minutes asn d the others take 26 minutes? I do not want it yo be dry.
Hi Debbie – it needs the extra time because of the addition of peanut butter. Enjoy!
Mine came out much, much less tall than the one in your photo. Can I double the recipe?
Hi Susan – you can’t double the recipe unless you have an 8 quart pressure cooker and use a larger pan. The chilled cheesecake will be about 2 inches tall.
Can you bake the crust for a bit to give it a little more of a crunch?
Hi Denise – yes, just let it cool before adding the cheesecake layer.
Wld love to make this. Just got a 7″ springform pan, but it’s only 2″ tall, not 3″. Is 2″ tall enough? Also, what is the purpose of the sling — if the springform pan is sitting on the trivet inside the IP? Thanks so much.
Hi Elaine – yes, it will work fine, just don’t fill the pan more than 2/3’s full. The sling is to get the pan out of the pressure cooker https://www.pressurecookingtoday.com/how-to-get-a-pan-out-of-the-pressure-cooker/ Enjoy!