Caramel Cheesecake

This salted caramel cheesecake is the ultimate salted caramel dessert. It has a peanut butter cookie crust. It is made with homemade salted caramel.

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STEP 1: Crust. Mix the butter and both kinds of sugar. Add in wet ingredients. Add flour mixture.

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STEP 2: Chill dough. Press dough into the pan and bake for 25 minutes.

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STEP 3: Cheesecake batter. Beat the cream cheese. Add the remaining batter ingredients.

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STEP 4: Pour batter onto the cookie crust. Prepare a water bath and bake for 75-80 minutes.

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STEP 5: Chill for 6 hours or overnight.

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STEP 6: Salted Caramel. Heat the sugar. Remove from the heat and add remaining ingredients.

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STEP 7: Pour caramel over the cheesecake and top with pretzel pieces.

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