Sunday, December 12, 2010

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

My son, Owen was so excited to make this cheesecake with me, how could I say no? I let him take the lead in this recipe and WOW! We were not disappointed. For the school party we made these in mini muffin pans. We had several issues and would recommend sticking to the full sized version. This cheese cake is so simple and tastes AMAZING!












Chocolate Chip Cheesecake
Out of the kitchen of: Owen

Crust
1 ¾ C. Oreo Cookie Crumbs
1/3 C. Butter
¼ C. sugar

Cheesecake
1 C. Sugar
3 (8 ounce) packages of cream cheese
2 tsp. Vanilla
3 eggs
1 C. Sour Cream
1 C. Mini Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl combine crumbs, butter, and ¼ C. sugar. Press on bottom and 1.5 inches up sides of a 9 inch spring form pan; set aside.

In a bowl with an electric mixer at high speed beat cream cheese, remaining sugar, and vanilla until creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Blend in Sour cream and chocolate chips.

Spread in prepared pan. bake at 35 degrees for about 60 minutes or untilcenter is set. Turn off oven leaving door slightly ajar. Leave cheesecake in the oven for 1 hour. Remove from and cool completely. Chill 4 hours or over night.

We made a chocolate ganache that we poured over the top before chilling. it was about 1/2 C. chocolate chips and a couple of TBLS. of cream melted together then poured over the top of the cheese cake.
Posted by Anjella at 9:19 PM

3 comments:

  1. KathyDecember 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM

    I might have to make this for John on his birthday. Yum! Good Job Owen!

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  2. AnjellaDecember 13, 2010 at 8:58 PM

    Let me know how it turns out! :D

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  3. LaurelJanuary 10, 2011 at 7:08 AM

    I've made mini cheesecakes several times. It's not hard if you put individual cookies as the crusts. If you're doing this cake (for example), use an Oreo (just one side). If you're doing a regular one, use a vanilla wafer. Cookies are almost a perfect fit for the circular bottom. Also, use cupcake liners. Then after you cook them, you can opt to leave them in the liners for individual serving, or remove them (if you really want--as long as they're well chilled!) and viola!

    Course you gotta seriously decrease the cooking time, maybe to only about 20 minutes or so ... (PS, does this one really get baked at 35 degrees? ;))

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