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Creamy Chocolate-Amaretto Cheesecake

Recipe Introduction


Source: Cooking Light-6/01





List of Ingredients



• 6 chocolate wafers (about 1 1/2 ounce)
  
• cooking spray
  
• 1 cup sugar
  
• 1 cup 1% low-fat cottage cheese
  
• 1/2 cup (4 ounces) block-style fat-free cream cheese
  
• 6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
  
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  
• 1/4 cup amaretto (almond flavored liquier)
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 1 (8 ounce) block 1/3-less-fat cream cheese
  
• 1 large egg
  
• 2 tablespoons semisweet chocolate minichips
  






Instructions



1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
   
   
2. Place wafers in a food processor, and pulse until coarsely ground. Sprinkle crumbs into bottom of an 8-inch springform pan coated with cooking spray.
   
   
3. Place sugar and next 8 ingredients (sugar through cream cheese) in food processor, and process until smooth. Add egg, and process until blended. Pour the cheesecake mixture into prepared pan, and sprinkle with minichips. Bake at 300 degrees for 55 minutes or until cheesecake center barely moves when pan is touched. Remove cheesecake from oven, and run a knife around outside edge. Cool to room temperature. Cover and chill at least 8 hours.
   
   
4. Yield: 8 servings. 292 cal, 9.7g fat, 10.9g pro, 40.2g carb, 52mg chol, 418mg sod.