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Chocolate Orange Cheesecake
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Servings:
19" cake
Ingredients
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1 3/4 cups Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Chips
6 ounces shortbread cookies, crushed
1/4 cup butter, melted
16 ounces cream cheese (for filling)
1 3/4 cups sugar (for filling)
1/3 cup orange juice concentrate (for filling)
3 large eggs (for filling)
1 1/2 cups sour cream (for topping)
6 tablespoons sugar (for topping)
2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate (for topping)
Directions
Crust:
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Combine cookies and butter with a fork.
- Press into bottom of a 9-inch spring-form pan and slightly up the sides.
- Bake 15 minutes.ÂÂ Cool.
- Melt 1 ½ cups chocolate chips at 30-second intervals, stirring after every 30 seconds until melted.ÂÂ Cool.
- Beat cream cheese and 1 ¾ cups sugar until smooth.
- Add 1 ½ cups chocolate chips, 1/3 cup orange juice, and eggs, one at a time.
- Pour into crust, and bake 50 minutes.
- Cool 10 minutes.
- Mix sour cream, 6 tablespoons sugar and 2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate together. Spread over cake.
- Drizzle remaining 1/4 cup melted chocolate chips over.
- Bake 5 minutes.
- Turn off heat, and cool in the oven with the door slightly open for 30 minutes. Place in refrigerator overnight.
Crust: