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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  North American >> Canadian >> Canadian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Prepare chocolate crumb crust. | 2. Place oven rack in centre of oven, heat to 350 degrees. | 3. Combine chocolate and butter in top of double boiler, place over hot but not simmering water. | 4. Cook over low heat just until chocolate is completely melted. | 5. Remove top of double boiler from water, stir chocolate mixture until smooth. | 6. Reserve at room temperature uncovered. | 7. Cut cream cheese into 1 inch cubes, place in large mixer bowl. | 8. Beat at medium speed, scraping down sides of bowl as needed, until completely smooth. | 9. Gradually beat in chocolate mixture. | 10. Continue beating, scraping down sides of bowl as needed, until mixture is smooth and uniformly coloured. | 11. Continue beating while gradually adding cream and vanilla, beat until blended. | 12. Continue beating cheese mixture at medium speed while very slowly adding granulated sugar, beat until sugar is absorbed. | 13. Add eggs, about 1/4 cup at a time, beating well and scraping down sides of bowl after each addition. | 14. Sieve cocoa powder over batter, beat at low speed until cocoa is thoroughly incorporated. | 15. Pour batter into cold unbaked chocolate crumb crust, spread top smooth. | 16. Gently rotate pan several quarter turns to settle batter. | 17. Bake 30 minutes, reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees, continue baking 30 minutes longer. | 18. Turn oven off. | 19. Let cake stand in oven with door ajar 30 minutes. | 20. Transfer pan to wire rack away from drafts. | 21. Let cool undisturbed until sides and bottom of pan are completely cooled to room temperature. | 22. Remove sides of pan. | 23. Refrigerate cake uncovered overnight or at least 8 hours. | 24. Cover cake loosely with plastic wrap, refrigerate until serving time. | 25. Just before serving, Sieve powdered sugar lightly over cake. | 26. Serve garnished with strawberries if desired. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
crumb crust	1	chocolate		-	-	-	-
chocolate	12	ounces	semisweet	197.3125	32.2164	7.007999999999999	4.8988
butter	2	tablespoons	unsalted	171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
cream cheese	1 1/2	1/2	lbs	125.4488	1.4884	3.0193	12.1622
whipping cream	1 1/2	cups		525.6	5.327999999999999	3.906	55.638000000000005
vanilla	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
sugar	1	cup	granulated	319.8	60.008	10.01	4.992
egg	3		beaten	214.5	1.08	18.84	14.265
cocoa powder	2	tablespoons	unsweetened	24.624000000000002	6.2532	2.1168	1.4796
sugar			powdered	-	-	-	-
strawberry				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.