{"id":5507,"date":"2018-03-09T08:51:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2021-06-13T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:34:48","slug":"amazing-chocolate-cheesecake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/amazing-chocolate-cheesecake.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Chocolate Cheesecake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cheese cake can cause major disagreements &#8211; what is &#8220;proper&#8221;.\u00a0 This one will probably fail all the &#8220;traditions&#8221;\u00a0 but it is really good and creamy so enjoy.\u00a0 Because it is a no-bake cake you can use the softer cream cheese spread\/whipped product.\u00a0 (Don&#8217;t use the soft stuff in a baked cake &#8211; does not work.)<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Ingredients for crust:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 &#8211; 12\u00a0oz\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(about\u00a03 cups once crushed) vanilla wafer crumbs (or chocolate, or graham cracker crumbs)<\/li>\n<li>1\u00a0Tab sugar<\/li>\n<li>6 &#8211; 7\u00a0Tab butter, melted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ingredients for filling:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 oz cream cheese room temperature<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp vanilla<\/li>\n<li>6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate broken into pieces (or chocolate chips: 1 c = 6 oz )<\/li>\n<li>1 Tab\u00a0butter<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 c powdered sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ingredients for topping:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 oz special dark chocolate<\/li>\n<li>2 Tab butter<\/li>\n<li>toasted almonds<\/li>\n<li>whipped cream serving<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions\u00a0for crust:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"instructions\">\n<ol>\n<li>Place cookies in a large gallon size Ziploc bag.<\/li>\n<li>Seal all but 1 inch\u00a0of the bag (so air can escape) .<\/li>\n<li>Roll with a rolling pin (or wine bottle) until the cookies are a fine crumb. You can use a food processor, if you want to clean it.<\/li>\n<li>Place cookie crumbs, sugar, and butter in a large bowl and stir with a fork until the mixture looks like wet sand.\u00a0 Or put the sugar in the bag and mix, then the butter and mush it around a lot.<\/li>\n<li>Place\u00a0on the bottom of a 9 inch spring free pan and press to compact.<\/li>\n<li>Chill crust for 1 hour before filling.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Directions for filling:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment or in a medium mixing bowl with an electric hand mixer, beat cream cheese until light and fluffy, approximately 3-4 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Add vanilla, continue mixing.<\/li>\n<li>Place butter and semi-sweet chocolate in a microwave safe dish.<\/li>\n<li>Heat on high for 30 seconds, stir. If it is not fully melted, heat at additional 15 second increments, stirring between each.<\/li>\n<li>When fully melted and smooth, immediately combine with cream cheese mixture, mixing well.<\/li>\n<li>Add powdered sugar, fully incorporating.<\/li>\n<li>Evenly spread into the bottom of the graham cracker crust.<\/li>\n<li>Chill for an hour or so.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Directions for topping:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Melt chocolate and butter together.<\/li>\n<li>Cool slightly<\/li>\n<li>Gently pour over the top of the cake &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t have to cover it.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle with toasted almonds.<\/li>\n<li>Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.<\/li>\n<li>Serve with whipped cream .<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Serves:<\/strong>\u00a0 8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>I had the list of ingredients but no recipe.\u00a0 Had to search for directions that sort of matched the ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheese cake can cause major disagreements &#8211; what is &#8220;proper&#8221;.\u00a0 This one will probably fail all the &#8220;traditions&#8221;\u00a0 but it is really good and creamy so enjoy.\u00a0 Because it is a no-bake cake you can use the softer cream cheese spread\/whipped product.\u00a0 (Don&#8217;t use the soft stuff in a baked cake &#8211; does not work.) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/amazing-chocolate-cheesecake.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazing Chocolate Cheesecake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-5507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweets-cakes","tag-koa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}