Recipe#8497

Title: Chocolate 04

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: ak399@cleveland.freenet.edu (Carole A. Resnick) 
 Subject: Chocolate Cheesecake 
 Message-ID: <2m4p3m$hqj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> 
 Date: 15 Mar 1994 16:52:06 GMT 

32 ozs  cream cheese, softened in microwave 2 minutes
 1-1/4 cups sugar
 1-1/4 cups chocolate chips, melted
 1/4 cup cornstarch
 1/2 cup heavy cream
 5 jumbo eggs, shelled and warmed in micro 25 secs.
 2 tsp vanilla or 1/3 cup amaretto
 If using amaretto you may wish to add 1/2 cup chopped almonds to
 crust or cake as well).
 Heat oven to 300 with pan of water on bottom shelf.
 Cream cheese until light. Add sugar, chocolate and beat again. Add
 eggs one at a time, beating after each. Mix in cream, cornstarch
 and vanilla.
 Pour into crust and bake for 65-75 minutes until firm around edges
 and stiff somewhat soft in middle. Run a knife around the edge.
 2 cups sour cream
 1-1/2 tsp vanilla
 1/4 cup sugar
 Mix and pour over hot cheesecake. Put cake back in oven for 5
 minutes. Cool cake completely. Drizzle with melted chocolate (and
 almonds if you opted for the amaretto).