Chocolate Cheesecake
This chocolate cheesecake is rich in both chocolate and cheese. It is noticeably less sweet than many other American desserts, and somewhat more complicated.
Ingredients
Crust
- 5 Tbsp butter, melted
- 2 cups chocolate wafer/cookie/graham cracker crumbs
Filling
- 3 packages (24 ounces / 705 g) cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 5 ea. (250 g) eggs
- 4 ounces (215 g / 4 squares) semisweet chocolate, melted
Topping
- 6 ounces (150 g / 6 squares) semisweet chocolate, melted
- ½ cup sour cream
Steps
- Place rack in center of oven. Preheat oven to 150 °C (300 °F).
- If using whole cookies, crackers or wafers, crush a few at a time in sturdy plastic bag with rolling pin, or grind in food processor.
- Mix chocolate crumbs and melted butter.
- Press crumb mixture into bottom and sides of 9-inch springform pan.
- Beat sugar and eggs in large bowl at medium speed, slowly adding cream cheese, until smooth and fluffy.
- Spoon half of cream cheese mixture into crust.
- Melt 4 ounces chocolate in double boiler or microwave. Stir into remaining cream cheese mixture until well blended.
- Drizzle chocolate cream cheese mixture over batter in crust. Draw spoon through batter a few times to swirl. Spread evenly.
- Bake 50 min. After first 30 min, place aluminum foil on top to prevent cracking and scorching.
- Cool completely.
- Cover with plastic wrap. Chill about 2 hours or up to several days.
- Transfer cheesecake to serving plate.
- Uncover. Remove side of pan.
Topping
- Melt remaining chocolate.
- Mix with sour cream.
- Spread over cake. Chill to set.
Notes from the original
- Brown sugar is not absolutely necessary (you can substitute granulated), but it provides better flavor.
- If no electric mixer is available, the cream cheese can be mixed with egg yolks one-at-a-time before the whites are added. Unless you find separating eggs extremely difficult, this will be worthwhile for the effort saved in mixing.
- Without a springform pan, a cake this stiff will require that at least the first piece be broken up in the process of serving. Fortunately, it's often easy to find someone who doesn't care.
- Without aluminum foil, the top of the cake will crack and brown somewhat, but the topping covers it effectively, making it practically unnoticeable.
Source. Adapted from “Cookbook:Chocolate Cheesecake” by Wikibooks contributors, revision of 2025-06-20, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Changes. Steps rewritten into short commands. Introduction shortened. Wiki formatting removed. This adapted recipe is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.






