Chocolate Cheesecake
Crust:
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
Filling:
- 4-8 oz. packages cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, melted
- 1/2 cup strong coffee
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons dark rum
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
Preheat oven to 350F.
Grease bottoms and sides of a 10 inch springform pan.
Prepare crust by combining graham cracker crumbs, sugar and melted butter in a bowl, mix well with a fork. Press crumb mixture into bottom and half-way up the sides of pan. Bake for 8 minutes, cool on wire rack.
Beat cream cheese until light and fluffy . Add sugar and eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg addition.
Add melted chocolate, coffee, vanilla, rum and cream; blend well. Pour into graham cracker crust.
Bake for 1 hour. Turn off heat and let cheesecake sit in oven one hour more. Cool on wire rack. Refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours before serving.
Serves 12 to 18.
Popularity: 14% [?]
Black Forest Cake
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate, melted and cooled
- 1 cup sifted flour
Syrup:
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup water
- 2 tablespoons cherry liqueur
Butter Cream Filling:
- 1-1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tablespoons cherry liqueur
Topping:
- 2 cups canned sour cherries, drained and patted dry
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped
- 8 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, shaved
Preheat oven to 350F. Grease 3-8 inch round cake pans, dust with flour. I would also recommend lining the pans with waxed paper, makes it so much easier to remove the cake layers after baking!
Beat together eggs, sugar and vanilla until thick and fluffy, takes about 10 minutes. Fold in melted chocolate alternating with flour into your egg mixture, ending with flour.
Pour batter equally into your 3 prepared cake pans. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans on wire rack for 5 minutes. Turn out onto rack until completely cooled.
To make syrup, mix sugar and water together in saucepan and boil for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cool and then add cherry liqueur. Prick cake layers, then brush syrup over all 3 layers.
To make butter cream filling beat sugar and butter together until well blended. Add egg yolk, then beat until light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes, then fold in the cherry liqueur.
Place one cake layer on cake dish. Spread with butter cream filling. Drop 3/4 cup cherries evenly over filling. Place second cake layer on top. Spread with filling, then add another 3/4 cup cherries evenly on top. Place third cake layer on top.
Fold 2 tablespoons powders sugar into whipped cream. Cover sides and top of cake with whipped cream, decorate top of cake with remaining cherries. Garnish top and sides of cake with chocolate shavings, press into whipped cream on the sides. Keep refrigerated.
Serves about 10.
Popularity: 12% [?]
Sour Cream Chocolate Cake Recipe
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate, melted and cooled
- 2 cups sifted cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup boiling water
Preheat oven to 350F.
Grease 2 - 9 inch cake pans, dust pans with flour or line on the bottom with waxed paper.
Cream sugar and butter together in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and melted chocolate.
Sift flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl. Add flour mixture and sour cream alternately to butter mixture; beat well after each addition. Stir in boiling water. Batter will be thin.
Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake for 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
Cool pans on wire rack for 10 minutes before removing cake layers from pans. Cool completely before frosting with your favorite chocolate or white frosting.
Popularity: 9% [?]
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