Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake
Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake takes about 45 minutes from beginning to end. This recipe makes 6 servings with 781 calories, 22g of protein, and 46g of fat each. For $3.86 per serving, this recipe covers 19% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 2 people were glad they tried this recipe.
- Ready in 45 minutes
- Servings: 6
- Category: dessert
- Source: Foodista
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon Baking cocoa
- 7 grams Baking powder
- 450 grams Bittersweet chocolate, chopped small
- 1 tbsp butter
- 200 grams Canned red cherries
- 80 grams Cherry juice
- 2 tablespoons Cornstarch
- 200 grams Philadelphia regular cream cheese
- 1 Egg
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
- 500 grams German Quark
- 1/5 teaspoon Salt
- 60 grams Caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 8 grams Vanilla sugar
Instructions
- Grease a 10 inch springform pan and line with a baking paper. To prepare the curst, combine and sieve first five ingredients first in a bowl, cut in butter and egg until a smooth dough forms. Press firmly on the bottom and sides of prepare pan. Use a fork to prick the crust in regular intervals. Cover and chill the crust for 30 minutes.Pre-heat oven to 200C/400F. Stir chopped chocolate and sugar in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water until melted and smooth.
- Remove bowl from over water and stir in the vanilla extract.
- Let cool briefly until lukewarm but still pourable.Blend quark and cream cheese in another bowl until smooth.
- Add in cocoa powder and 1 tbsp cornstarch. Stir to combine. Blend in eggs, one at a time. Gently stir in lukewarm chocolate until completely blended.
- Pour filling over crust. Press cherries lightly into chocolate mixture if using.
- Bake until the filling is set, about 50 minutes. Turn off the oven and let cool in oven with door ajar for about 1 hour. Take out and cool completely. Chill the cake overnight.In a pot, combine sugar and 1 tbsp cornstarch.
- Add in cherry, lemon juice and stir until smooth. Cook over medium heat, stirring, until the mixture boils and thickens.
- Remove from heat and let cool.
- Drizzle the chocolate cheesecake with cherry sauce or simply just dust with icing sugar.