Chocolate ganache cheesecake
From ahmed1 17 years ago
- 75 minutes to make
- Serves 10
Inside - outside ganche cheesecake. Using the rest of a chocolate ganache mixture, I wanted to create a new cheesecake And I just couldn’t believe the results…Easy, tender and delicious taste and flavor and above all , from my own creation. Read more Try this one!! See less
Ingredients
- Crust: shopping list
- 1 ½ cups chocolate cookie crumbs shopping list
- 1/3 cup butter, melted shopping list
- 2 ½ (8 oz) light cream cheese, softened shopping list
- 4 ½ oz Philadelphia cream cheese, softened shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 4 eggs shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla shopping list
- ¾ cup sour cream or yogurt shopping list
- ¼ cup heavy cream shopping list
- ½ cup chocolate ganache mixture shopping list
- 1 tsp instant espresso coffee (optional) shopping list
- Topping: shopping list
- 9 ½ oz plain chocolate, chooped shopping list
- 1 ½ cups heavy cream shopping list
- 2 tbsp butter shopping list
- Decoration: shopping list
- 2 tbsp roasted coffee beans shopping list
- 1tbsp cocoa powder shopping list
- 3 tbsp hazelnuts, coarsely chopped shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and line the base of a 25cm loose bottom cake pan and line the base with parchment.
- Mix the cookies crumbs and butter and press in the base of the pan, bake for 10 minutes. Leave to cool.
- In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, add vanilla and beat again. Mix in the sour cream and beat. Add the heavy cream and beat again then add the chocolate Ganache mixture and the espresso and beat until all mixed together. Pour over the baked crust and bake for 1 ¼ hours till set. Leave to cool in oven with door ajar. Chill for 3-4 hours.
- For the topping:
- Heat the heavy cream in a heavy saucepan until simmering point and pour over the chopped chocolate. Stir until chocolate melts. Add the butter and stir again. Leave to cool until thickens, stirring occasionally. Pour over the top of the cake smoothing with a spatula around the sides. Decorate all around the sides with the chopped hazelnuts and use the coffee beans and cocoa powder for the top. Chill again.
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The Rating
Reviewed by 16 people-
You did a fabulous job! Looks and sound, heavenly!
bluewaterandsand
in GAFFNEY loved it
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Simply fantastic! Oh so many cakes I have to bake! hehe
chriesi
in Zuerich loved it
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YUMMY.....................Mmmmm.............Mmmmmmm
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