{"id":1382,"date":"2012-04-23T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T11:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2012-04-23T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T11:37:24","slug":"black-forest-cheesecake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"Black Forest Cheesecake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rich and creamy, heavenly chocolately, melt in your mouth goodness! There are a few steps to get through but it is worth the effort…guaranteed!<\/p>\n

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Black Forest Cheesecake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1 cup Chocolate Cookie Crumbs
\n1\/4 cup Butter, melted<\/p>\n

2 pkgs 250g Philly Cream Cheese, softened
\n3\/4 cup Sugar
\n2 Eggs
\n1\/2 cup (100g bar of chocolate) Dark Chocolate, melted
\n1\/3 cup Cream
\n2 Tablespoons Kirsch (Cherry Brandy)
\n1 can (425g) pitted Cherries, drained and reserving liquid<\/p>\n

1 can (425g) pitted Cherries, reserve 8 – 10 whole cherries for garnish
\nReserved liquid from first can of cherries
\n1 \/3 cup Sugar
\n1 Tablespoon Cornstarch<\/p>\n

2 cups Whipping Cream
\n1 Tablespoon Icing Sugar
\n1 teaspoon vanilla<\/p>\n

Chocolate Curls\/Shavings <\/p>\n

Combine cookie crumbs and melted butter.
\nPress into an 8″ Springform pan.
\nChill.<\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 300F (150C)
\nIn tall mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar just until smooth.
\nBeat in eggs, one at a time.
\nOn low speed, stir in the chocolate, cream and kirsch just until smooth. Do not over beat.
\nStir in the first amount of drained cherries.<\/p>\n

Pour into prepared crust and bake in 300F oven for 45 minutes.
\nEdges will be puffy and centre still a bit wiggly.<\/p>\n

Turn oven off, allow cheesecake to cool in oven with the door ajar for about an hour.
\nRemove from oven and cool completely, then chill for two hours.<\/p>\n

While cheesecake is chilling combine second can of cherries, reserved liquid from first can, and 1\/3 cup sugar.
\nBring to a boil.
\nIn a small bowl, using a fork, stir together 2 tbsp of water and the cornstarch.
\nAdd cornstarch paste to cherries and return to a boil; cook for a minute, stirring constantly.
\nReduce heat and simmer until slightly thickened.
\nRemove from heat and cool.<\/p>\n

In tall mixing bowl that has been chilled along with mixing beaters, whip the cream until slightly thickened.
\nAdd icing sugar a lil at a time.
\nAdd vanilla and whip cream to desired stiffness; do not over whip.<\/p>\n

Building the Black Forest Cheesecake.
\nLoad piping bag with whipped cream and pipe a border around the top edge of the cheesecake.
\nFill center of Whipped Cream border with the chilled Cherry mixture.
\nSprinkle the Cherry filling with chocolate shavings\/curls.
\nDecorate with reserved cherries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rich and creamy, heavenly chocolately, melt in your mouth goodness! There are a few steps to get through but it is worth the effort…guaranteed! 1 cup Chocolate Cookie Crumbs 1\/4 cup Butter, melted 2 pkgs 250g Philly Cream Cheese, softened 3\/4 cup Sugar 2 Eggs 1\/2 cup (100g bar of chocolate) Dark Chocolate, melted 1\/3 … Continue reading Black Forest Cheesecake<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decadent-desserts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}