- Source:
- Mary Pat
Serves/Makes:8 or more
- Ingredients
- Crust:
- Cooking Spray
- 1 cup (225 ml) finely ground chocolate wafer cookies
- 2 tbsp (30 ml) unsalted butter, melted
- Filling:
- 4 oz (112 grm). semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 4 8 oz (224 grm). packages cream cheese at room temp(not non-fat)
- 1-1/2 cups (350 ml) sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
- 4 large eggs at room temperature
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) smooth peanut butter
- Chocolate Glaze:
- 4 oz (112 grm). bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 3 table spoons unsalted butter, chopped finely
- 1 tbsp (15 ml) milk
- 2 tsp (10 ml) light corn syrup
- Preparation
- Crust:
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees (175 C.).
- Wrap bottom and sides of a 9 inch springform pan with a double layer of foil.
- Coat bottom of pan with cooking spray and line with parchment paper cut to fit. Spray parchment with cooking spray.
- Stir together cookie crumbs, butter and sugar and press mixture firmly into bottom of pan.
- Bake until firm, about 10 minutes.
- Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
- Filling:
- Melt chocolate in a double boiler or bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. Let cool.
- Beat cream cheese with a mixer at medium speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Reduce speed to low and beat in sugar, salt, and vanilla until combined and completely smooth.
- Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until combined--do not overbeat.
- Divide cream cheese mixture in half.
- Stir peanut butter into one half and chocolate mixture into the other half.
- Ladle 2 cups (475 ml) peanut butter filling into center of crust. Tap pan gently on the counter to settle.
- Ladle 1 cup (225 ml) chocolate filling directly on top of peanut butter filling.
- Repeat ladling and settling process and then switch to 1/2 cup (125 ml) filling increments. Alternate until all filling is used.
- Bring a kettle of water to boil. Set cake pan in a large roasting pan and transfer to oven.
- Carefully pour boiling water into roasting pan to reach halfway up sides of cake pan.
- Bake until cake is set but still slightly wobbly in center--about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
- Let cool completely in pan on wire rack.
- Refrigerate cake in pan until cold, at least 6 hours and up to overnight.
- Before unmolding cake run a knife around the inside rim of pan to loosen.
- Glaze:
- Melt chocolate and butter in a double boiler or bowl set over a sauce pan of simmering water, stirring until smooth.
- Remove from heat and stir in milk and corn syrup.
- Use immediately pouring glaze over top of cake, smoothing with a spatula and letting it drip down the sides.
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