Chocolate Cheesecake
Ingredients
Crust
- 1½ cups chocolate wafer crumbs
- ⅓ cup butter, melted
Batter
- 4 pkgs 8-oz cream cheese
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ cup flour
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 6 eggs
- 6 squares semi-sweet chocolate, melted
- 2 cups sour cream
Instructions
Crust
- In a bowl combine the chocolate wafer crumbs with the melted butter.
- Press the crumbs evenly over the bottom of 10" spring form pan.
Batter
- Preheat oven to 500 ° F.
- Blend cream cheese and sugar.
- Beat in flour and vanilla.
- Add eggs one at a time.
- Stir in melted chocolate.
- Add sour cream and blend.
- Bake 12 minutes at 500° F.
- Decrease heat to 200° F. Do not open the oven door!
- Bake 60 minutes at 200° F. Again - don't open the door!
- Remove from oven and cool 2-3 hours.
- Refrigerate at least 8 hours.
- Leave in the pan until you are ready to serve.
Notes
Why 500 degrees, then 200 degrees?
The 500 degrees warms the ingredients - and then the 200 slow cooks the cake - so it's evenly cooked. How come no graham cracker crust?
You can do one if you want. Won't hurt the recipe at all. Is all this sour cream necessary?
Don't know if it's "necessary" - but it gives a great not-too-sickening-sweet taste! So many commercialized cheese cakes are overkill on the sugar. Photo Attribution: Chocolate Cheesecake by Mike65444 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
The 500 degrees warms the ingredients - and then the 200 slow cooks the cake - so it's evenly cooked. How come no graham cracker crust?
You can do one if you want. Won't hurt the recipe at all. Is all this sour cream necessary?
Don't know if it's "necessary" - but it gives a great not-too-sickening-sweet taste! So many commercialized cheese cakes are overkill on the sugar. Photo Attribution: Chocolate Cheesecake by Mike65444 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.