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White Chocolate: Old Rittenhouse Inn White Chocolate Cheesecake

Source of Recipe

Mary Phillips, Chef


List of Ingredients

CRUST:
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 cup zwieback crumbs (12)
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon cocoa

FILLING:
19 ounces cream cheese
1 cup sugar
4 teaspoons flour
5 ounces white chocolate, melted
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons white creme de cacao
1 teaspoon vanilla

TOPPING:
2 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 teaspoons white creme de cacao


Recipe

Add butter to combined crumbs, sugar and cocoa; mix well.Coat sides of buttered 9 inch springform pan with 3 tablespoons crumb mixture. Press remaining crumb mixture onto bottom of pan. Chill. Combine cream cheese, sugar and flour, mixing at medium speed on electric mixer until well-blended. Blend in white chocolate. Add eggs and yolk, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Blend in creme-de-cocoa and vanilla; pour over crust. Bake at 350ºF for 50 minutes. Loosen cake from rim of pan; cool before removing rim of pan. Combine chocolate, sour cream and creme-de-cocoa; mix well. Spread over cheesecake. Chill.