Make an adorable and delicious baby shower dessert that your party guests will love. This Cheesecake Baby is easy to make and can be decorated to look like a baby boy or girl.
If you can draw a smiley face, you can decorate your cheesecake to look like this cute baby. This is such a simple decorated cheesecake design. This cute dessert will really add a touch of whimsy to your baby shower dessert table.
You'll start by making a peach-colored cheesecake. If you like, you can even flavor the cheesecake using peach flavoring.
Then, you'll decorate it using cheesecake filling that has been colored with some black food coloring.
To make a cheesecake baby boy, you simply add two eyes, a smile, a wisp of hair, and a blue pacifier. To turn the cheesecake into a baby girl, you can add a pretty pink bow in her hair and a pink pacifier.
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Ingredients
Crust:
cinnamon graham cracker crumbs
sugar
butter
Peach Cheesecake Filling:
cream cheese
sugar
eggs
sour cream
peach flavoring, optional (I used Wilton Treatology flavoring but it is sadly no longer available. LorAnn Oils will work well too.)
black food coloring
Decorations:
modeling chocolate or fondant
blue or pink food coloring
Supplies
mixing bowl and mixer or stand mixer
9-inch springform pan
squeeze bottle, disposable pastry bag, or zip-top bag
To make this cheesecake, you'll start by making a graham cracker crust. Then you will make the peach-flavored cheesecake filling.
To make the skin-toned filling, add orange coloring, brown coloring, or tan coloring. Just remember the color will darken slightly when the cheesecake is baked.
Before pouring all the filling into the springform pan, scoop out about 1 ½ tablespoons into a small bowl. Color with a few drops of black coloring. If making a girl, scoop out another 1 ½ tablespoons of filling and color pink.
Pour that into a zip-top bag or disposable pastry bag and pipe on two eyes, two eyebrows, a smile, and a wisp of hair if making a boy. For the girl, you can add rosy cheeks and a pretty pink bow.
To really make your cheesecake baby come to life, you can add a pacifier in his/her mouth and some ears. Use fondant or modeling chocolate to create both. They are so simple to make.
To make the fondant pacifier, cut out a 1 ½-inch circle then create and attach a handle. Glue the two pieces of fondant together with a dab of water.
To make the ears, cut out two 1 ½-inch circles from a fondant color that matches your cheesecake. Cut off a bit of one side so the ears sit flat up against the side of the cheesecake.
Once your cheesecake is chilled, remove it from the springform pan and set it on a serving plate. Just before serving the cheesecake, add the fondant pacifier and ears.
Tips
If you are using a traditional clamp-style springform pan, be sure to wrap the bottom of the pan in two layers of heavy-duty foil to keep the water out of the cheesecake. I used a no-leak pan, which I love.
To keep condensation from forming on the cheesecake while it's in the refrigerator, drape a paper towel over the top of the springform pan, then cover tightly in tin foil.
For more detailed information about baking the cheesecake in a water bath, check out the first decorated cheesecake I ever made, the Decorated Daisy Cheesecake post.
Recipe
- 1 cup cinnamon graham cracker crumbs
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 3 (8-ounce) packages of cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- orange and black food coloring
- optional, peach flavoring (see notes)
- 1 ounce blue or pink fondant or modeling chocolate
- 1 ounce skin toned fondant or modeling chocolate to match cheesecake
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Spray a 9 inch springform pan with cooking spray.
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Combine graham cracker crumbs, 1 tablespoon sugar, and butter.
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Press it in the bottom of the springform pan.
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Bake for 10-12 minutes until fragrant and the edges begin to brown.
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Remove from oven and allow to cool.
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Set a large roasting pan in the oven and pour in 1 ½ inches of hot water.
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Combine cream cheese and sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
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Add eggs and beat to combine.
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Add sour cream and the peach flavoring if using and beat to combine.
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Add desired color. (1 drop orange for light peach skin tone)
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Scoop out 1 ½ tablespoons of filing and place in a small bowl.
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Color using several drops of black coloring.
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Spoon into a small zip top bag or pastry bag.
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If making a baby girl, also color 1 ½ tablespoons of filling pink.
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Spoon into a bag also.
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Pour the remaining cheesecake filing over crust.
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Pipe on two eyes, two eyebrows, a wisp of hair and a smile using the black filling.
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If making a girl, you can add rosy cheeks and a pink bow.
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Set cheesecake in roasting pan filled with water and bake for 45-50 minutes.
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The top of the cheesecake should look set but still wiggle.
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Turn off oven, crack open door, and let cheesecake sit for 15 minutes.
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Remove cheesecake from water bath and allow to cool for 1 hour at room temperature.
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Refrigerate for at least 6 hours.
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Roll out blue or pink fondant and cut out one 1 ½ inch round circle. Cut out a pacifier handle. Attach the handle to the circle using a dab of water.
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Roll out skin toned fondant and cut out two ears.
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Just before serving, attach the two ears to the side of the cheesecake and add a pacifier in the baby's mouth.
Set your cream cheese out at room temperature for at least 3 hours before making the cheesecake. You also want your eggs and sour cream to be at room temperature. Set them out about an hour beforehand.
Peach flavoring - You can use LorAnn Oils peach flavoring. Add ½ teaspoon to flavor. You can add more for a stronger flavor.
If you want a peach cobbler-flavored cheesecake use the following:
16 drops Wilton Treatology Peach Flavoring
8 drops Wilton Treatology Warm Cinnamon Graham Flavoring
2 drops Wilton Treatology Cream Vanilla Custard Flavoring
Store the cheesecake in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. You can also freeze the decorated cheesecake (without the modeling chocolate or fondant ears and pacifier) for up to 3 months.
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Sonya Printers
thanks for the idea. I made this with my own recipe. The pic I can't post on here. Added my own touch.
Beth
I'm so happy you made this! You can send your picture to beth@hungryhappenings.com and I will share it in my Readers' Gallery.
Sue {munchkin munchies}
Your cheesecake baby is adorable! My daughter is due next month, and I think I may give it a try; so cute!
Beth
Congratulations to your and your daughter! How exciting. The flavor of this cheesecake is amazing. I can't wait to make it again. I hope you enjoy it.
Karen @ Sugartown Sweets
Beth..I think this is my favorite cheesecake you've ever done! It is absolutely adorable. I'm sute Katie love it too. 🙂
Beth
Thanks, Karen. It was definitely the simplest cheesecake to decorate, and it turned out so cute. I'm glad you like it:)
lisa@hooplapalooza
well Beth, you've done it again. i would much rather have a piece of this baby cheesecake at a shower vs. the old boring cake. although i may just bring the slice home and stare at it. lol 🙂
Beth
Me too! I'd always choose cheesecake over cake:)
Katie @ Clarks Condensed
How adorable is this?! I've never seen anything like this. It's so perfect (and I'm sure delicious) for a baby shower!
Beth
Thanks, Katie. I was happy to be a part of your baby shower celebration.
Nancy P.@thebittersideofsweet
Love, love, love this cake! That baby looks so sweet! 🙂
Beth
Thanks, Nancy:)
The Partiologist
How cute is this - the little pacifier is adorable!! I'll have to check out the rest of the party, sounds like fun!
Beth
Thanks, Kim. I thought the pacifier really added just the right touch to make this baby super cute.
Paamela
I'm very surprised this is called a "cobbler". I know a cobbler as a baked fruit dessert with a topping of a mixture of oats, sugar, butter and mixed together, placed on the dessert prior to baking and nice and crispy. Or, if its not this then its biscuit dough or something along those lines plopped on the fruit before it goes into the oven. I have NEVER, not even once, seen anything called a cobbler that would be able to be decorated. Is this the standard cobbler somewhere in a specific region?
Beth
This is actually called a Peach Cobbler "Flavored" Cheesecake because the combination of peach, warm cinnamon graham, and vanilla custard provide the cheesecake with a peach cobbler flavor. The cool thing about using Wilton's Treatology flavors is that you can combine them to make amazing flavors like Peach Bellini, Toasted Coconut Cheesecake, and Salted Caramel flavored desserts. So, you are right, this is not an actual cobbler. It's just has the wonderful flavors of a cobbler.