Mocha Cheesecake

By phpbyte

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Ingredients

Crust:
1 cup finely ground chocolate wafer cookies
1 tbsp sugar
4 tbsp butter
Filling:
4 tsp instant espresso powder or crushed chocolate expresso beans
3 8oz cream cheese
1 1/3 cups and 3 tbsp sugar
4 large eggs
2.5 cups low fat sour cream
3 tbsp flour
4 oz unsweetened chocolate
Cocoa powder

Details

Level of difficulty Average
Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 100mins
Cost Average budget

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 F

Step 2

Mix together cookie crumbs, 1 tbsp sugar, and melted butter. Press this into bottom of a roasting pan filled with several inches of water to form crust

Step 3

Mix 3 tsp of expresso powder and 2 tsp water to make the expresso mix

Step 4

Beat cream cheese and 1 1/3 cups of sugar until light and fluffy (~ 3 minutes). Add eggs and beat well. Add 1 cup of sour cream and flour and mix well. Stir in expresso mixture and melted chocolate

Step 5

Pour filling mixture from step 4 over the crust. Bake for 70 minutes at 325 F or until the center is mostly set. Turn off oven and let set for 25 minutes

Step 6

Mix 1.5 cups of sour cream with 3 tbsp sugar and 1 tsp expresso powder. Spread mixture over cheesecake after the 25 minutes is over. Let stand in oven for another 5 minutes and then remove

Step 7

Let cool and refrigerate overnight. Garnish by sprinkling cocoa powder on top