Chocolate Covered White Chocolate Cheesecake
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Cheesecakes
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Chocolate
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Desserts
Ingredients: 1 1/2
cups
chocolate wafer cookies,
crumbled
3
tablespoons
butter,
melted
24
ounces
cream cheese,
softened
1/2
cup
sugar 1
teaspoon
vanilla 3
eggs 1/2
pound
white chocolate,
melted
1
cup
heavy cream 2
tablespoons
butter 2
tablespoons
granulated sugar 12
ounces
semisweet chocolate,
broken into small pi
Directions:
Heat oven to 350F.
Mix crumbs and butter and press onto bottom of 9-inch springform
pan. Bake for 10 minutes.
Beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until well blended. Add
eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Blend in
melted white chocolate and pour over crust.
Bake 40 minutes, turn off oven and let cake cool inside the oven
as it cools down. Loosen cake from rim of pan and cool
completely. Chill for at least 4 hours. Remove rim.
Heat heavy cream, butter, and sugar in a heavy saucepan over
medium-high heat. Stir to disolve sugar crystals and then bring
to a boil. Put choclate pieces into a stainless steel bowl and
pour boiling cream mixute over it and let stand for a few
minutes. Stir until smooth and cool.
Cover the sides and top of cheesecake with the ganache, smooth,
and chill at least 2 hours to set.
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