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chocolate wafers sugar butter cream cheese sugar cornstarch eggs egg yolk semi-sweet chocolate chips cherry schnapps vanilla bing cherry cherry preserves lemon juice cornstarch chocolate ice cream topping
Viewed: 82 - Published at: 3 years agoIngredients
- 1 14 cups finely crushed chocolate wafers
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 14 cup butter or 14 cup margarine, melted
- 24 ounces cream cheese
- 34 cup sugar
- 5 teaspoons cornstarch
- 3 eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
- 12 cup cherry schnapps
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 23 cup bing cherry, pitted, chopped, and drained
- 1 cup cherry preserves
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- chocolate ice cream topping
Method
- The crust-in a small bowl stir together the crumbs and sugar.
- Add the melted butter; stir until well combined.
- Press crumb mixture evenly onto the bottom of a greased 9-inch springform pan; set aside.
- The filling-in a large bowl combine the cream cheese, sugar, and cornstarch; beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Add the eggs and egg yolk, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in the melted chocolate, cherry schnapps, and vanilla.
- Stir in cherries.
- Pour the cream cheese mixture over the crust.
- Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.
- Lower the temperature to 200 and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until the center no longer looks wet or shiny.
- Remove the cake from the oven and run a knife around the inside edge of the pan.
- Turn the oven off; return the cake to the oven for an additional 1 hour.
- Chill, uncovered, overnight.
- The topping-in a small saucepan stir together the cherry preserves, lemon juice, and cornstarch.
- Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly.
- Cook and stir 2 minutes more.
- Pour over cheesecake.
- Drizzle with chocolate ice cream topping.
- Chill until serving time.