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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.