Recipe: Chocolate Truffle Raspberry Cheesecake

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Yield: 8 Servings

75 g Nuts; toasted
250 g Chocolate wafer cookies;

           -- crushed
     70 g  Sugar
     75 g  Butter; melted
    150 g  Cream cheese; unwrapped and
           -- softened
    200 g  Sugar
      5    Jumbo eggs; shelled and
           -- warmed

110 ml Chambord liqueur
225 ml Raspberry preserves;

           -- strained so there ar
      1 c  Fresh raspberries; optional

1/4 c Cornstarch
110 ml Heavy cream

      2 tb Sugar
     50 g  Butter (unsalted)

225 ml Gourmet heavy whipping cream 450 g Semisweet chocolate
3 ts Chambord liqueur

From: kmeade@ids2.idsonline.com (The Meades)

Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 19:56:51 -0400

Recipe by: Carole A. Resnick ak399@cleveland.freenet.edu

Mix and pat into bottom and sides of 25 cm springform pan. Set aside.
Beat cheese until light and fluffy. Add sugar and beat again. Add eggs one at a time, beating ater each. Stir in cream, cornstarch and liqueur.
Pour into pan and bake at 190C for 45 minutes. (Put pan of water on bottom rack while baking and preheating). Cake is done when edges are lightly brown and firm and cake is still soft in middle. Loosen edges from pan and let cool 2 hours or so.
Spread raspberry preserves on top of cake. Make ganache and put in pastry bag. Pipe ganache around edges of cake using large star tip. Dot to of cake with fresh raspberries.
Combine sugar, butter and cream in heavy bottomed 2 l pan. Heat over lo heat 3 minutes until sugar is dissolved.
Chop chocolate into small pieces and place in medium sized bowl. Add ho cream mixture and whip well with wire whisk until chocolate melts and mixture is smooth. Add Chambord, mix.
Place bowl in larger bowl filled with ice water. Stir with spatula unti thick enough to pipe through a pastry bag. Do not let chocolate harden and DO NOT let any of the ice water NEAR the chocolate!

Author's Notes: You can substitute strawberries for raspberries.

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