My family loves souffle cheesecake. The light airy dessert with melt in your mouth texture is simply irresistible. Today I’m sharing Blueberry Cheesecake using the popular Japanese Soufflé Cheesecake recipe as the inspiration. I hope you will enjoy this as much as the cheesecake recipe. I know my family did!
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Airy and delightful blueberry souffle cheesecake topped with blueberry jam, simply melts in your mouth. On weekends, we sometimes eat bagels for breakfast. My daughter enjoys sweet and fruity flavored cream cheese such as strawberry and blueberry on her bagels while the rest of us prefer savory bagels, with onion and chives cream cheese, smoked salmon, capers, and freshly ground black pepper (yum!). During breakfast one day, my husband all the sudden suggested that we should bake blueberry version of our favorite Japanese Soufflé Cheesecake by simply swapping regular cream cheese with blueberry cream cheese. What?! I’ve never heard of anyone using blueberry cream cheese to make blueberry cheesecake.
To be honest, I wasn’t 100% sure it would work. First, I don’t want to give you the wrong impression that this is a typical Blueberry Cheesecake in Japan. It is NOT. I’ve never seen blueberry cream cheese in stores in Japan (Let me know if I am wrong). A typical Blueberry Cheesecake would be a Souffle Cheesecake as base with some fresh blueberries inside. Some may have fresh blueberry topping but most of the time it is just dusted with powder sugar (See some examples). So how was the result?
To my surprise, it was very good. If you like the original Soufflé Cheesecake and also love blueberries, you will love this cheesecake. Only part that I will change next time is that I will not take a short cut and use blueberry jam. It was such a impromptu decision to make this dessert so I didn’t have enough fresh blueberries at home for the topping. Nevertheless, the cake was not overly sweet despite the blueberry jam. It’s fluffy, light and simply melts in your mouth! Hope you enjoy this cake! Wish to learn more about Japanese cooking? Sign up for our free newsletter to receive cooking tips & recipe updates! And stay in touch with me on Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, and Instagram.
