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Chocolate Orange Cheesecake

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Servings: 19" cake

Ingredients

  • 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)

Method

  1. CRUST: Preheat oven to 325°F.
  2. Combine cookies and butter with a fork. Press into bottom of a 9-inch spring form pan and slightly up the sides.
  3. Bake 15 minutes.
  4. Let cool.
  5. FILLING: Melt 1 ½ cups chocolate chips at 30-second intervals, stirring after every 30 seconds until melted.
  6. Let cool.
  7. Beat cream cheese and 1-3/4 cups sugar until smooth. Add 1-1/2 cups chocolate chips, 1/3 cup orange juice, and eggs, one at a time.
  8. Pour into crust, and bake 50 minutes. Cool 10 minutes.
  9. TOPPING: Mix sour cream, 6 tablespoons sugar and 2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate together. Spread over cake.
  10. Drizzle remaining 1/4 cup melted chocolate chips over.
  11. Bake 5 minutes.
  12. Turn off heat, and cool in the oven with the door slightly open for 30 minutes.
  13. Place in refrigerator overnight.