This cheesecake gets the blackout name from 3 layers of chocolate, a chocolate crust and mounds of swirly chocolate curls on top. If you need a showstopper dessert,look no further. This cheesecake has a few steps but is not complicated. Once it is assembled you will amaze yourself. To make the swirl curls, I used a carrot peeler and room temperature Hershey bars. Just gently glide the peeler down the side edge and voila! Swirls and twirls galore of milk chocolate. I hope you get to try this blackout swirly cheesecake soon! You will be happy you did.
You May need:
Parchment rounds 9 inch
Water Bath Cheesecake Pan
Blackout Swirly Cheesecake
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 box Nabisco chocolate wafers, ground up in processor
- ½ c. melted butter
Cheesecake
- 24 oz cream cheese, soft
- 1 cup sugar
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 4 eggs
Ganache
- 6 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup heavy cream
Chocolate Whipped Cream
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 5 T. powdered sugar
- 3 T. unsweetened cocoa
Chocolate Curls
- 5 Hershey Bars
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F
- Line a 9-inch springform pan with parchment paper in the bottom and grease the sides with butter.
- Mix cookie crumbs and butter. Press into bottom and up sides of pan. Bake 10 mins. Cool
- Fill a cheesecake moat with water in the edges or create a water bath in a large roasting pan.
Cheesecake
- Raise temp to 350.
- Beat the cream cheese, sugar and cocoa.
- Add sour cream and vanilla.
- Add eggs one at a time. Scrape sides down as needed.
- Pour over crust. Place in water bath or moat and bake 50 minutes.
- Shut oven and crack door letting cheesecake cool down 10 minutes.
- Remove to counter to cool and then chill.
- Once cool, remove sides and place on platter.
Ganache
- Put chips in heatproof bowl.
- Heat cream to a boil and pour over chips.
- Let sit 2 mins covered and whisk smooth.
- Pour slowly on cake and spread evenly with offset spatula.
- Chill to firm the ganache.
Whipped Cream
- Whisk cream, sugar and cocoa in mixer on high till stiff peaks.
- Spread carefully over the cool ganache.
- Make curls on the Hershey bars using a veggie peeler gently.
- Place all over the top of the cake and chill until serving time.
Adapted from Life, Love Sugar
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