Guinness and Chocolate Cheesecake
From lacrenshaw 15 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Submitted by M. Wassenaar at allrecipes this is a rich chocolate cheesecake accented with everyone's (at least on St. Pat's Day!) favorite stout. It will even tell you how to make chocolate clovers!
Ingredients
- CRUST: shopping list
- 1 cup crushed chocolate cookies shopping list
- 1/4 cup butter, softened shopping list
- 2 tablespoons white sugar shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder shopping list
- CAKE: shopping list
- 24 ounces cream cheese, softened shopping list
- 1 cup white sugar shopping list
- 3 eggs shopping list
- 1/2 pound semisweet chocolate chips shopping list
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream shopping list
- 1 cup sour cream shopping list
- 1 pinch salt shopping list
- 3/4 cup Irish stout beer (e.g. Guinness) shopping list
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract shopping list
- CLOVERS: shopping list
- 1 ounce square semisweet chocolate shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Prepare a 9" springform pan with butter.
- Combine crushed cookies, butter, 2 tablespoons sugar and cocoa in a small bowl.
- Mix well and press onto bottom of springform pan.
- Place cream cheese in large bowl and beat with electric mixer on low speed until smooth.
- While beating slowly add 1 cup sugar and then eggs, individually.
- Continue beating until smooth.
- Combine the chocolate chips and heavy cream in microwave safe bowl.
- Heat in the microwave until chocolate is completely melted, stirring every 30 seconds.
- Beat chocolate into cream cheese mixture.
- Add the sour cream, salt, beer and vanilla.
- Blend until smooth.
- Pour mixture into crust.
- Place pan in a large deep baking dish and fill with water halfway up side pf springform pan.
- Bake cheesecake in water bath for 45 minutes.
- Turn oven off BUT do not remove cheesecake.
- Set the oven door ajar slightly and let cheesecake remain another 45 minutes.
- Remove from oven.
- Cool on rack for 10 minutes and then remove ring from pan.
- Chill at least 4 hours.
- CLOVER:
- Melt the semisweet chocolate in small bowl in microwave.
- Make clovers by dropping 3 small drops of melted chocolate close to one another on waxed paper.
- Drag a toothpick from dots to make the stem.
- Chill until hardened.
- Arrange clovers on top on chilled cheesecake.
- **I would probably use the green mint chips for a bit more contrast!
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GREAT recipe, hon, and FIVE to you!! :+D
chefelaine
in Muskoka loved it
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Saounds and looks wonderful love cheesecake choc. a plus for my family thanks bunches
momo_55grandma
in Mountianview loved it
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Omg!!!!!!!! lorraine this is heavenly you know i love cheesecakes and anything caramel is my very weakness i love this with the added guinness how different .......very cool recipe
thank you
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