Chocolate Cheesecake Flan
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar, divided
- 6 semi-sweet chocolate baking squares, divided
- 1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, cubed
- 4 eggs
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Place 1 cup of the sugar in small heavy saucepan; cook on medium heat until sugar is deep golden brown, stirring constantly.
- Pour into 9-inch round cake pan.
- Place 4 of the chocolate squares in microwaveable bowl. Microwave on HIGH 1-1/2 minutes or until chocolate is almost melted, stirring after each minute; cool.
- Place milk and cream cheese in blender container; cover. Blend until smooth.
- Add remaining 1/2 cup sugar, eggs and melted chocolate; cover. Blend well.
- Pour over syrup in cake pan.
- Place pan in larger baking pan. Add enough water to larger baking pan to come halfway up side of round pan.
- Bake 1 hour or until knife inserted 1-inch from edge comes out clean. Remove from oven.
- Place round pan on wire rack; cool completely.
- Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight before unmolding.
- To unmold, run a knife around the edge of the flan, and invert onto a plate, shaking gently to loosen. (The caramel sauce that was on the bottom of the cake pan will now be on top of the flan.).
- Melt remaining 2 chocolate squares in small microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 minute or until chocolate is melted, stirring after 30 seconds.
- Use teaspoon to drizzle chocolate in 5 or 6 random crisscross designs onto a sheet of wax paper; let stand until firm.
- Carefully remove chocolate designs from wax paper and place on top of flan to decorate.
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Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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Ashley: Adopted October 8, 1996 - Passed Away January 6, 2009
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