Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Supreme

sweetcakes's Note:

This is prize winning cheesecake.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 48 mins
• Prep Time: 1 hrs
• Cook Time: 48 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 10

Yield: 1.0 cake

Crust

• 1 ½ cups crushed chocolate wafers
• ½ cup melted unsalted butter

Cheesecake

• 24 ounces cream cheese , softened
• 1 ½ tablespoons flour
• 1 cup sugar
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla
• 4 eggs
• ¼ cup heavy cream

Raspberry filling

• ½ ounce unflavored gelatin
• 3 eggs , separated
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 cup heavy cream , whipped
• ¼ cup cold water
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 2 pints fresh raspberries

Chocolate Cheese Filling

• 6 ounces semisweet chocolate , melted
• 8 ounces cream cheese , softened
• ¾ cup light brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon amaretto liqueur
• 2 eggs , seperated
• 1 ¼ cups heavy cream , whipped

Garnish

• sweetened whipped cream
• fresh raspberry
• chocolate curls

Directions:

1. Crust:.
2. Combine wafers and melted butter; press into an 8-inch spring form pan. Chill.
3. Cheesecake:.
4. Combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat five minutes until smooth and creamy. Place in prepared pan and bake 500* for 8 minutes. Reduce oven to 250* and bake and additional 40 minutes. Cool and top with fillings.
5. Raspberry filling:.
6. Soften gelatin in cold water. Combine egg yolks, lemon juice, and sugar in small pan. Heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is thickened slightly and coats the back of metal spoon. Remove and add softened gelatin to the hot mixture; stir to dissolve. Put raspberries through sieve to make a puree. Stir into gelatin mixture and cool until it mounds. Fold raspberry mixture with whipped cream and top cheesecake with this mixture. Refrigerate until ready for next topping.
7. Chocolate Cheese Filling:.
8. Melt chocolate over hot water; beat in egg yolks, one at a time. Cool about 10 minutes. Blend cream cheese, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, vanilla, and Amaretto. Beat in cooled chocolate. Blend well. Gradually beat in remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar until mixture is stiff and glossy. Fold chocolate mixture into whipped cream. Pour this mixture over Raspberry Filling. Refrigerate.
9. Garnish.

Reviews

[Luna Elodia]

Although one slice maxes out caloric intake for two days, this is fabulous. Not too sweet, either. Because I just couldn't hide that fresh raspberry filling, I used the chocolate cheese topping on Ghirardelli's triple chocolate brownies. OMG!