Ariel's Chocolate Cheesecake
By: Ariel Jutkowitz
Published: Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 1:36pm

Ingredients




Chocolate Cheesecake 

Chocolate Crumb Pie Crust (recipe to follow)

8 ounces (8 squares) semisweet chocolate
3 ounces pkgs. (8  each) cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
3 Tbs. all-purpose flour
1 cup heavy cream (I used milk-we’ll see how it turns out!)
1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract
Chocolate Crumb Pie Crust

1 1/2 cups finely crushed chocolate wafers
3 Tbs. sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
 cup unsalted butter, melted

Preparation

1 Chocolate Cheesecake 2 Preheat oven to 350º. 3 Prepare crust according to directions. 4 Lightly grease 9-inch spring-form pan and press crust mixture onto bottom and 1 inch up sides of pan. 5 Bake for 8-10 minutes. 6 Remove pan from oven and cool completely on wire rack. 7 Melt chocolate, remove from heat, and set aside to cool. 8 Place cream cheese and sugar in mixer bowl and beat until light and fluffy. 9 Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. 10 Add flour and beat until thoroughly combined. 11 Stir in reserved chocolate and beat  until thoroughly blended. 12 Add cream and vanilla and beat about three minutes until thoroughly combined. 13 Pour over cooled crust and bake in preheated oven 60 minutes. 14 Turn off oven and leave cake in closed oven 1 hour. 15 Remove cake from oven and cool completely on rack. 16 Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. 17 Run knife around edge of cake and remove side of pan. 18 Chocolate Crumb Pie Crust 19 Preheat oven to 350º. 20 Combine crushed wafers, sugar, and cinnamon in bowl. 21 Add butter and stir until well combined. 22 Press crumb mixture onto bottom and partly up sides of lightly greased 8-inch or 9-inch pie plate or spring-form pan. Flatten to even thickness with back of a spoon. 23 Bake in preheated oven 8-10 minutes. 24 Cool completely before filling. 25 Use as base for cheesecake or fill with ice cream, chocolate mousse, or other pie filling.

About


I wanted to try out my new spring-form cake pan and cheesecake was the best thing I could think of. However, I don’t really like cheesecake, so it had to be chocolate to help mask the cream cheese flavor of classic cheesecake. I hope it will taste really good. (I am still waiting for it to come out of the oven and then it has to cool) Anyway, I made every bit of it from scratch, the chocolate wafers, the crust, and the filling. I already made the chocolate wafers, so just follow the link and you will have the recipe for that part. The rest of the recipes came from the same book, and the link about the book is on the post with the chocolate wafers, so again, just follow the link. I am getting really repetitive with my writing, sorry. There is no other word that I can use for “cheesecake” or “chocolate” or “link” so just bear with me.

Comments:
Erin Askenasy

Sounds great. I made a White Chocolate Strawberry Swirl cheesecake this weekend and posted it to my blog www.trialanderin.com It was SO good! Will try this next!