Description
Truffle-like chocolate cheesecake in a chocolate cookie crust. If this does not drive your mate wild, keep the recipe and replace him or her. Note: The topping for this cake is your choice, you could use chocolate dipped strawberries, purchased chocolate truffles, or melt chocolate and/or white chocolate and drizzle it over the top.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups vanilla wafer crumbs
- ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ⅓ cup butter, softened
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
- In a large mixing bowl
- mix together crushed vanilla wafers
- confectioners’ sugar
- cocoa
- and butter by hand. Press ingredients into a 9-inch springform pan.
- In the top of a double boiler
- melt the chocolate chips
- making sure that they are very smooth.
- In a large bowl
- beat cream cheese until fluffy with an electric mixer. Gradually beat in condensed milk until smooth. Mix in melted chocolate
- eggs
- and vanilla. Beat with electric mixer on low speed until the ingredients are thoroughly blended. Pour the filling into the prepared crust.
- Bake at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 55 minutes. The cake will seem underbaked in the center
- but will continue to cook after you remove it from the oven.
- Allow to cool to room temperature
- then refrigerate for several hours before serving.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Total Time: 5 hrs
Servings: 14