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Dark Chocolate Cheesecake
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Servings: 16
Categories:
Cheesecakes
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Chocolate
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Desserts
Ingredients: 2
cups
vanilla wafer crumbs 4
tablespoons
butter,
melted
2
tablespoons
lemon peel,
grated
2
tablespoons
sugar 5
semisweet chocolate square 24
ounces
cream cheese,
softened
3/4
cup
sugar 3
eggs 1
teaspoon
vanilla 1
cup
sour cream
Directions:
1.
Prepare Vanilla Cookie Crust. Mix all ingredients together. Press mixture evenly onto bottom and 2 inches up side of a buttered 9-inch springform pan.
2.
Melt chocolate over hot, not boiling, water; cool.
3.
Preheat oven to very slow (275~).
4.
Beat cream cheese, sugar, eggs and vanilla in a large bowl with electric mixer until smooth. Stir in cooled melted chocolate and sour cream until blended. Pour into prepared pan.
5.
Bake in preheated very slow oven (275~) for 1 hour and 45 minutes. Turn off heat; let cake cool in oven with door ajar. Remove from oven to wire rack; cool to room temperature; refrigerate. Garnish with whipped cream and chocolate curls, if you wish.
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