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Chocolate: Rich Chocolate Cheesecake

Source of Recipe

www.ichef.com


List of Ingredients

32 ounces softened cream cheese
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups chocolate chips, melted
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup heavy cream
5 jumbo eggs, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla

TOPPING:
2 cups sour cream
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1/4 cup sugar


Recipe

If using amaretto you may wish to add 1/2 cup chopped almonds to crust or cake as well). Heat oven to 300ºF with pan of water on bottom shelf. Cream cheese until light. Add sugar, chocolate and beat again. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each. Mix in cream, cornstarch and vanilla. Pour into crust and bake for 65-75 minutes until firm around edges and stiff somewhat soft in middle. Run a knife around the edge. TOPPING: Mix and pour over hot cheesecake. Put cake back in oven for 5 minutes. Cool cake completely. Drizzle with melted chocolate.