Relish this delicious cheesecake made with chocolate wafer cookies and cream cheese – perfect dessert to treat a crowd.
Chocolate Cheesecake
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 7 hr 20 min
- Ingredients 9
- Servings 16
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 package (9 oz) thin chocolate wafer cookies, crushed (1 3/4 cups)
- 6 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
Filling
- 2 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese, softened
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 bag (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips (2 cups), melted
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 325°F. In medium bowl, mix crust ingredients; reserve 1 tablespoon crumbs for garnish. Press remaining crumbs in bottom and 2 inches up side of ungreased 10-inch springform pan. Refrigerate.
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Step2In large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in 1 egg at a time until well blended. Add melted chocolate; beat well. Add remaining filling ingredients; beat until smooth. Pour into crust-lined pan.
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Step3Bake 55 to 65 minutes or until edges are set; center of cheesecake will be soft. (To minimize cracking, place shallow pan half full of hot water on lower oven rack during baking.) Cool in pan 5 minutes.
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Step4Carefully remove side of pan. Cool completely, about 2 hours. Garnish with reserved crumbs. Refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight. Store in refrigerator.
Nutrition
410
Calories
29g
Total Fat
5g
Protein
32g
Total Carbohydrate
24g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 410
- Calories from Fat
- 260
- Total Fat
- 29g
- 45%
- Saturated Fat
- 17g
- 87%
- Trans Fat
- 1g
- Cholesterol
- 105mg
- 34%
- Sodium
- 210mg
- 9%
- Potassium
- 160mg
- 5%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 32g
- 11%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 7%
- Sugars
- 24g
- Protein
- 5g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 15%
- 15%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 6%
- 6%
- Iron
- 8%
- 8%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 1/2 High-Fat Meat; 5 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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