Lightened Chocolate-Coffee Cheesecake With Mocha Sauce

Name: Lightened Chocolate-Coffee Cheesecake With Mocha Sauce
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 113 grams bittersweet baking chocolate squares; 79 milliliters reduced-fat butter, melted; 59 milliliters coffee liqueur; 4 larges eggs; 473 milliliters crushed chocolate graham crackers (about 18 crackers); 10 servings Mocha Sauce; 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules; 907 grams packages reduced-fat cream cheese, softened; 237 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

This vegetarian recipe serves 10. One portion of this dish contains around 12g of protein, 29g of fat, and a total of 496 calories. A mixture of bittersweet baking chocolate squares, coffee liqueur, cream cheese, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 20 minutes.

Instructions

Stir together crushed graham crackers and melted butter; press mixture into bottom and up sides of a 9-inch springform pan coated with cooking spray.

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Graham Crackers

Cooking Spray

Butter

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Springform Pan

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Reduce oven temperature to 32

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Wire Rack

Oven

Beat cream cheese and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended.

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Cream Cheese

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Add liqueur, vanilla, and coffee granules, beating at low speed until well blended.

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Instant Coffee

Liqueur

Vanilla

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until yellow disappears after each addition.

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Egg

Remove and reserve 1 cup cream cheese mixture.

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Cream Cheese

Pour remaining batter into prepared crust.

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Crust

Microwave chocolate in a medium-size, microwave-safe bowl 1 minute or until melted, stirring after 30 seconds. Stir reserved 1 cup cream cheese mixture into melted chocolate, blending well. (

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Cream Cheese

Chocolate

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Microwave

Bowl

Mixture will be thick.) Spoon mixture in lines on top of batter in pan; gently swirl with a knife.

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Knife

Frying Pan

Bake at 325 for 1 hour or until almost set. Turn oven off.

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Oven

Let cheesecake stand in oven, with door closed, 30 minutes.

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Oven

Remove cheesecake from oven, and gently run a knife around outer edge of cheesecake to loosen from sides of pan. (Do not remove sides of pan.) Cool 1 hour on a wire rack. Cover and chill at least 4 hours.

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Wire Rack

Knife

Oven

Frying Pan

Remove sides of springform pan.

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Springform Pan

Serve with Mocha Sauce.

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Sauce

Note: For testing purposes only, we used Kahla for coffee liqueur.