Chocolate Truffle Cheesecake

Name: Chocolate Truffle Cheesecake
Prep time: 12 h 25 min
Cook time: 12 h 25 min
Total time: 12 h 25 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 227 grams semisweet chocolate baking bars, chopped; 2 Tbsps melted butter; 10 servings Garnish: fresh raspberries or White Chocolate Snowflake; 355 milliliters crushed dark chocolate-and-almond shortbread cookies (about 18 cookies; we tested with Keebler Dark Chocolate and Almond Shortbread Sandies); 907 grams packages cream cheese, softened; 4 larges eggs; 10 servings Ganache Topping; 397 grams sweetened condensed milk; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 237 milliliters whipping cream

One portion of this dish contains about 18g of protein, 64g of fat, and a total of 792 calories. This recipe serves 10. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 12 hours and 25 minutes. A mixture of chocolate snowflake, chocolate-and-almond shortbread cookies, eggs, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 30

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Combine crushed cookies and butter. Press mixture on bottom of a 9-inch springform pan.

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Butter

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Microwave chocolate and cream at HIGH 1 1/2 minutes or until melted, stirring at 30-second intervals.

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Chocolate

Cream

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Beat cream cheese at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer 2 minutes or until smooth.

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Cream Cheese

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Add sweetened condensed milk and vanilla, beating just until combined.

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Sweetened Condensed Milk

Vanilla

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating at low speed just until blended after each addition.

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Add chocolate mixture, beating just until blended.

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Pour batter into prepared crust.

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Bake at 300 for 1 hour and 5 minutes or just until center is set. Turn oven off.

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Let cheesecake stand in oven with door closed 30 minutes.

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Remove cheesecake from oven; gently run a knife around outer edge of cheesecake to loosen from sides of pan. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack (about 1 hour). Cover and chill 8 to 24 hours.

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Remove sides of pan, and place cheesecake on a serving plate. Slowly pour warm Ganache Topping over cheesecake, spreading to edges. Chill 1 hour before serving.

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Garnish, if desired.