Chocolate-Glazed Baileys Irish Cream Cheesecake
- 6 each graham crackers/wafers
- 1/4 cup butter, unsalted melted
- 24 ounces cream cheese at room temp
- 7 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon flour, all-purpose
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup sour cream plus 2 tablespoons
- 1/4 cup liqueur plus 2 tablespoons, irish cream style
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 9 ounces chocolate (semi-sweet) chopped
- 1 x chocolate curls for garnish, optional
- For Crust: Preheat oven to 350F (180C).
- Finely grind graham crackers in processor.
- Add butter and blend until combined.
- Press crust mixture onto bottom (not sides) of 9 inch diameter spring form pan.
- Bake crust until golden about 8 minutes.
- Transfer crust to rack.
- Maintain oven temp.
- For Filling: Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar in large bowl until smooth.
- Beat in flour.
- Add eggs 1 at a time, beating just until combined.
- Mix in remaining ingredients.
- Pour filling into crust.
- Bake 10 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 250.
- Bake about 40 minutes longer.
- Cool cake in a pan on rack 10 minutes.
- Loosen cake.
- Cool.
- Chill overnight.
- For Glaze: Bring cream to simmer in heavy medium size saucepan.
- Reduce heat to low.
- Add chopped chocolate and stir until melted and smooth.
- Cool glaze to lukewarm.
- Pour glaze over cake after releasing cake from pan.
- Refrigerate until glaze sets, about 30 minutes.
- 12 servings.
graham crackers, butter, cream cheese, sugar, flour, eggs, sour cream, vanilla, heavy whipping cream, chocolate, chocolate curls
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/chocolate-glazed-baileys-irish--816 (may not work)