Recipe For Chocolate Cheesecake - Better Than A Bakery


	Recipe For Chocolate Cheesecake I stumbled into this recipe for chocolate cheesecake 30 years ago. My sister-in-law was cooking one of her first sit down dinners. (You know how that is, after you get out of college and want to play "grown up". ) I can still remember the weather that day, the conversation - and how fantastic this was! I think two KEY things make this stand out: the sour cream the baking procedure (scroll below - you will see) As a kid I used to wish we'd eat cheesecake - but my family considered it more of an American tradition. And that's probably because it uses cream cheese versus a ricotta cheese (which we use in our Italian cakes). If this wasn't exactly the type of cheesecake you were looking for - check out my Amaretto Mousse Cheesecake it's a bit lighter in texture. Too, I have all my Italian cake recipes listed below if you want to look at a recipe list. Thanks for stopping by - Lisa Italian Dessert Recipes - Website Owner Recipe For Chocolate Cheesecake Yield : 10" Cheesecake Ingredients - Crust * 3/4 cup of flour ( you can swap this out for chocolate wafer cookies - cut back on the butter accordingly though) * 2 Tbs of sugar * 1/4 tsp salt * 1/4 cup butter Ingredients - Batter * 4 - 8 oz pkg cream cheese * 2 tsp vanilla * 6 eggs * 2 cups sour cream * 1 cup of sugar * 1/4 cup of flour * 6 squares of semi-sweet chocolate Crust Procedure * Preheat oven to 400 degrees * Cut butter and dry ingredients till coarse crumbs * Press into bottom 10" spring form pan * Bake 10 minutes Batter Procedure * Preheat oven to 500 degrees (really) * Blend cream cheese and sugar * Beat in flour and vanilla * Add eggs one at a time * Stir in melted chocolate * Add sour cream and blend * Bake 12 minutes at 500 degrees * Decrease heat to 200 degrees - do not open the oven door! * Bake for 60 minutes at 200 degrees - again - don't open the door! * Cool 2-3 hours * Refridgerate at least 8 hours * Leave in the pan until you are ready to serve Why 500 degrees, then 200 degrees? The 500 degrees warms the ingredients - and then the 200 slow cooks the cake - so it's evenly cooked. How come no graham cracker crust? You can do one if you want. Won't hurt the recipe at all. Is all this sour cream necessary? Don't know if it's "necessary" - but it gives a great not-too-sickening-sweet taste! So many commercialized cheese cakes are overkill on the sugar. Back to the top of the recipe for chocolate cheesecake Other Italian Cake Recipes Almond Cake Recipe Amaretto Cake Recipe Amaretto Mousse Cheesecake *Apple Pound* Cake Applesauce Cake Recipe Beer Cake Blueberry Cake Recipe Blueberry Coffee Cake Recipe Cappuccino Cake Caramel Cake Cassata Cake Chocolate Amaretto Cake Chocolate Buttermilk Cake Chocolate Torte Recipe Chocolate Walnut Cake Coconut Layer Cake Coconut Cake Recipe Date Bread Double Chocolate Brownie Recipe Eggnog Cake Recipe Flourless Chocolate Torte Fresh Strawberry Cake Recipe Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Recipe Harvey Wallbanger Cake Italian Cream Cake Recipe Italian Rum Cake Recipe Jelly Roll Recipe Key Lime Cake Lady Fingers Recipe Lemonade Cake Lemon Layer Cake Lemon Pound Cake Mint Brownie Recipe Peach Cake Recipe Poppyseed Cake Recipe Recipe For Chocolate Cheesecake Pear Cake Recipe Pineapple Carrot Cake Pistachio Cake Recipe Plum Cake Recipe Pumpkin Cake Pumpkin Bread Recipe Recipe For Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe For Pumpkin Cheesecake Ricotta Cake Spice Cake Recipe Sour Cream Cake Recipe The BEST Tiramisu Recipe Walnut Cake Recipe Whipped Cream Recipe Yogurt Cake Frostings - Glazes - Icings Click here to see my cake frosting recipes. Fathers Day I can already tell you the main recipes that are viewed on Italian Dessert Recipes during the last few weeks before Fathers Day - CHOCOLATE desserts, CHOCOLATE CAKES, CHOCOLATE cheesecake - basically anything chocolate. Not sure why we think men need chocolate. But, it's a cyclical. I see it every year - all my chocolate dessert recipes get the highest viewings. So, to give you some ideas - here's what most of us cook for our men on Fathers Day: Recipe for Chocolate Cheesecake (I love this because it uses sour cream, and makes the chocolate have the bittersweet deep end flavor Chocolate Walnut Cake Chocolate Buttermilk Cake (Uses 3 sticks of butter - I make this about 4 times a year!) And if you don't want chocolate? Another great holiday cake, that I make for celebrations: Italian Rum Cake (Give yourself a day ahead of time to make this. It needs to soak about 24 hours to flavor.) Lisa Would you like to share this page? You know how to do it! Thanks for sharing the sugar love! Contact Me Privacy Policy About**
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