Sweet Cheesecake Recipes
Chocolate Ricotta Cheesecake
Ingredients
Graham Crust
- 1 cup Graham cracker crumbs
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup melted butter
Filling
- 3 cups ricotta or low-fat cottage cheese
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup Hershey’s Cocoa
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Glazed Fruit
- Sweetened whipped cream (optional)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Stir together all ingredients. Press mixture onto the bottom and 1/2 inch up the side of 9 inch springform pan.
- Bake for 10 minutes; cool.
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In food processor or blender container, place ricotta cheese, sugar and eggs; process until smooth.
- Add remaining ingredients except Glazed Fruit. Process until smooth. Pour batter into prepared crust.
- Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until set.
Remove from oven. Loosen cheesecake from rim of pan; cool to room temperature.
- Refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
- Remove rim of pan; top with fresh or Glazed Fruit, mint sprig and pipe with sweetened whipped cream, if desired.
- Glazed Fruit: Stir 1 1/2 cups sliced peaches, pitted sweet cherries, fresh strawberries or pineapple chunks with 1/2 cup fruit preserves until fruit is well coated. Arrange on top of cheesecake.