Chocolate covered Strawberry Cheesecake – My favorite creamy cheesecake recipe gets a lovely new appearance with the flavors of chocolate included strawberries.
I really like cheesecake.
Obviously, right? Who doesn’t?
I really like it in a manner that makes it hard for me to order it out in eating places. I need my cheesecake to be wonderful extremely creamy and that i don’t need a unusual gelatinous topping that perhaps in a former lifestyles resembled strawberries. This one that I’ve made suits the invoice flawlessly.
So you love to bake cheesecake however it constantly has cracks on top. NO trouble. even though this one comes out of the oven with a few cracks, they may be protected up by the creamy topping that we practice toward the quit of baking.
I got here up with this idea of a Chocolate blanketed Strawberry Cheesecake final week while trying to provide you with a brand new dessert for Easter. i like to devise ahead. I’m so anal that I even want to attempt out my complete menu a few weeks before the holiday. I understand, it’s crazy. i will’t assist it. Does all of us else do this (please say sure, please say sure).
Anyway, I’ve been seeing heaps of cheesecake recipes all over Pinterest. most of them are not any bake recipes. I’m all about the no bake for certain times (Mini Pumpkin Pie No Bake Cheesecakes) however I truly desired a true, actual cheesecake, so those had been out. Then it dawned on me, my all time favourite cheesecake is my Apple Pie stuffed Cheesecake. So, I took the bottom of that recipe, minus the apple portions, of route and baked up a creamy cheesecake.
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 C graham cracker crumbs
- 8 T butter, melted
- 24 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 C sugar
- 2 eggs, whole
- 1 egg yolk
- ½ C heavy cream
- 2 T flour, all purpose
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Top Layer
- 1¼ C sour cream
- ¼ C sugar
Topping
- 2 C strawberries, sliced
- ½ C dark chocolate morsels
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 350.
- soften butter and combine with graham cracker crumbs in a bowl. Stir to coat all crumbs. Press firmly into springform pan, barely going up the edges as properly, to form a crust. Set apart.
- Beat cream cheese and sugar till clean. upload eggs (entire & yolk), one at a time, beating in among every one. upload cream, flour and vanilla and mix until smooth and all substances are incorporated nicely. Pour aggregate over crust in springform pan.
- area springform pan on a baking sheet and bake 40 minutes.
- After 40 minutes, lessen warmth to 325 and bake an additional 40 mins.
- put off cheesecake from oven.
- Stir together bitter cream and sugar. unfold mixture over top of cheesecake.
- go back cheesecake to oven and bake an extra 10 mins.
- permit cheesecake to chill absolutely earlier than setting in the fridge. preserve refrigerated in a single day (or for approximately eight hours).
- After cheesecake is ready, do away with outer ring from springform pan.
- arrange strawberry slices on pinnacle of cheesecake, beginning at the outer edges, with points going through out. preserve developing earrings of strawberry slices, shifting inward, slightly overlapping each with the hoop earlier than.
- area morsels in a microwave safe bowl and cook dinner 30 seconds. Stir. Repeat in 20 2d periods till chocolate is melted and smooth.
- Drizzle melted chocolate over strawberries.
- place in fridge for 10 mins to assist chocolate set.
- revel in!