Sweet Cheesecake Recipes
Heavenly Chocolate Cheesecake
Ingredients
Crust
- 2 cups crushed vanilla wafer crumbs (about 50 cookies)
- 1 cup ground toasted almonds
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted
Filling
- 1 3/4 cups (11.5 ounces) Nestlé® Toll House® Milk Chocolate Morsels
- 1 (.25 ounce) envelope unflavored gelatine
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese (room temperature)
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped
Instructions
Crust
- Combine crushed cookies, almonds, sugar and butter in medium bowl; mix well. Press firmly onto bottom and 2 inches up side of ungreased 9 inch springform pan.
Filling
- Microwave morsels in medium, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on medium-high (70%) power for 1 minute; stir. The morsels may retain some of their original shape. If necessary, microwave at additional 10 to 15 second intervals, stirring just until morsels are melted.
- Sprinkle gelatin over milk in small saucepan; let stand for 1 minute.
- Warm, stirring constantly, over low heat until gelatin is dissolved; remove from heat.
- Beat cream cheese, sour cream and melted chocolate in large mixer bowl until fluffy.
- Beat in gelatin mixture and almond extract; fold in whipped cream.
- Pour into crust. Chill for about 3 hours or until firm.
- Run knife around edge of cheesecake; remove side of springform pan. Garnish as desired.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from:
VeryBestBaking