Chocolate-Amaretto Cheesecake (Make Ahead)
Recipe
- Title:
- Chocolate-Amaretto Cheesecake (Make Ahead)
- Categories:
- Chocolate, Cheesecakes, Cakes/choc.
- Yield:
- 2 servings
Ingredients
- 6
- Chocolate wafers, finely
- 1/4 c All-purpose flour
- -crushed
- 1/4 c Amaretto
- 1 1/2 c Light process cream cheese
- 1 ts Vanilla extract
- -product
- 1/4 ts Salt
- 1 c Sugar
- 1
- Egg
- 1 c 1% low-fat cottage cheese
- 2 tb Semisweet chocolate
- 1/4 c Plus 2 tbsp unsweetened
- -mini-morsels
- -cocoa
Directions
- From: Light and Easy Cooking Collection, Oxmoor House
Directions
- You can substitute an 8-inch pan for this cheesecake recipe, if desired.
- The larger cheesecake will require only 45 to 50 minutes baking time.
Directions
- chocolate curls
Directions
- Sprinkle chocolate wafer crumbs in bottom of a 7-inch springform pan.
- Set aside.
- Position knife blade in food processor bowl; add cream cheese and next 7 ingredients, processing until smooth.
- Add egg and process just until blended.
- Fold in chocolate morsels.
Directions
- Slowly pour mixture over crumbs in pan.
- Bake at 300 for 65 to 70 minutes or until cheesecake is set.
- Let cool in pan on wire rack.
- Cover and chill at least 8 hours.
- Remove sides of pan, and transfer cheesecake to serving platter.
- Garnish with chocolate curls, if desired.
- Yield: 12 servings (about 200 calories per serving).
Directions
- CHOCOLATE MINT CHEESECAKE: Substitute 1/4 cup creme de menth for amaretto.
- Yield: 12 servings (about 197 calories per serving).
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