Chocolate Coconut Cheesecake Bars
"I wrote out this recipe AGES ago -- don't remember where I found it -- but finally tried it this week. Oh. my. goodness. I HAVE BEEN MISSING OUT!!! Simple and irrisistible! Tastes good the first day, but definitely better a day later; my recommendation would be to make it a day in advance if it's for a special occasion."
photo by Swan Valley Tammi
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
16
ingredients
-
Base
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
- 1⁄2 cup coconut
-
Filling
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
- 3 semi-sweet chocolate baking squares, melted (I used 3/4 c. chips instead)
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2⁄3 cup sugar
- 2⁄3 cup light cream (I used half-and-half)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
directions
- For base: Combine flour and sugar. Cut in butter until mixture is crumbly.
- Stir in coconut.
- Press mixture firmly into 8x8" square cake pan.
- For filling: cream together cream cheese, melted chocolate, eggs, flour and sugar until smooth and light.
- Gradually add cream, vanilla, and cinammon, mixing until smooth.
- Pour over base and bake @ 350F for 25-35 min, or until filling is set.
- Cool and refrigerate. Drizzle with more melted semi-sweet chocolate, if desired (approximately 2 squares or 1/3-1/2 cup chips).
- Cut into bars or squares and serve!
Questions & Replies
Got a question?
Share it with the community!
Reviews
-
I don't even like coconut but love this! My brought had wanted a chocolate coconut cheesecake and I came across this recipe. It's so easy to make and so very yummy!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
<p>I live in beautiful western Manitoba, Canada. I'm a wife and stay-at-home mom with 2 daughters, Peanut (who turned 7 at the end of January) and Fidget (who will turn 5 in the middle of June) and a husband whom I call The Bushman, who's motto, lucky for me, is I'll try anything once! I'm a Mennonite by heritage as well as faith. I'm a born again Christian and we belong to a small Evangelical Mennonite country church where The Bushman and I are fairly involved. The church is made up largely of family groups -- most are related somehow. That's actually a Mennonite pastime, finding out how everyone's related to each other. If we're not directly related, we'll find a connection somehow -- your third cousin's wife's brother is for SURE my mother's father's sister-in-law's nephew!! See, isn't it amazing how small this world really is?! For fun, I enjoy photography -- my favourite subjects are sunsets, cloud formations, my girls, and nature close-ups -- reading, (John Grisham, Frederick Forsythe, Robert Ludlum, and Clive Cussler are my favourite authors), playing piano, and going for nice long walks, either first thing in the morning or towards sunset. I've even learned to enjoy it in the dead of winter, when I have no choice but to walk in semi-darkness. For those of you who've never experienced a Manitoba winter (lucky you!), 'the dead of winter' includes pretty much all of December, January, and February!! And up here, our shortest days of the year have only 7 hours of daylight, so if it's cloudy, well, it feels like no daylight at all! It's my favourite time to plan my day, pray, and daydream about what might happen if I'd ever actually buy a lottery ticket and win!! I love cooking -- baking not so much (mostly because it's not essential to survival and if there's baking in the house, that's all we eat!!) -- and reading recipe books is a favourite pastime of mine. I love the Company's Coming series of cookbooks, but my favourite is Taste of Home magazine. Since buying a premium membership here though, I've decided to let my subscription run out. I'll miss it, but I've decided there's really no need for it, since all the best recipes in the world eventually end up here!!</p>
