Baked Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake Recipe
Summer brings an abundance of cherries which work a treat in desserts such as this baked chocolate cherry cheesecake. This custard-based cheese batter enriched with cherry sauce and melted dark-chocolate before being baked in a water bath until just set then topped with more cherries. Use fresh seasonal cherries in summer or frozen during the rest of the year.
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Are you enjoying the summer heat? Berries? Stone fruits?
We have been on a berry binge recently, pigging on berries and stone fruits. Can you tell? The sheer amount of wonderful summer fruits in the markets gets my mom juices flowing. I can’t stop making all these wonderful things.. I made plum peach jam, Fig jam, strawberry jam, and you must remember all those mini berry cheesecakes I shared with you a few weeks back? Before we made that blueberry cream cheese crumb bars and blackberry nectarine crum cake that was a huge hit.
About this Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake Recipe (Save/Pin)
This week I wanted to make a lighter cheesecake. Lighter does not mean lighter in calories really. You can make it lighter in calories too if you choose a lighter cream cheese like I suggested in the substitutes below.
If you love the combination of chocolate and cherries you will love this cheesecake. The batter is enriched with my strained cherry filling. You can add more for a more deeper cherry taste but I like to have the chocolate and cherry come through equally.
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Let’s talk ingredients and substitutes (Save/Pin)
- Cherry Filling – You can use store brought cherry filling, of course, I’m all for semi-homemade if it makes life easy. But if you like making things from scratch please try my very popular recipe – Homemade cherry filling that takes just five minutes to make. However, if you have fresh seasonal cherries or a bag of frozen cherries, I highly recommend you try my cherry filling recipe. It takes 5 minutes to prepare and you will be eating it out of the jar with a spoon, so good.
- Oreo Cookies – You don’t necessarily need a brand here – just any dark colored cookies will do. Here I am using a brand of dark cookies similar to Oreo cookies.
- Cream cheese – I highly recommend using a good full fat cream cheese for texture and flavor. Having said that in the video if you see I have divided my cream cheese into three different varieties. I love mascarpone which is usually 40% fat, and two local brands one is 28% and the other 9%. In this recipe, I used 200 grams of mascarpone, 150 grams 28% and 50 grams 9 %. The texture and flavor were really good.
- Egg – We have just one in this recipe, so make it a large one. I have not tried substituting egg in this recipe. If you do, let us know the outcome in the comments below.
- Cornstarch/Cornflour – helps hold the batter together so you get nice pretty slices and texture. You can omit the cornstarch but the cheesecake will be more delicate.
- Lemon juice – really brings out the flavor of all the rest of the ingredients and cuts down the sweetness
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HOMEMADE CHEESECAKE CRUST – SHORTCRUST CHEESECAKE CRUST
How often have we wanted to make cheesecake only to realize that you have no crackers, biscuits or oreo cookies? Well, I actually do prefer a homemade shortcrust for my cheesecakes. It’s really very simple and easy to make too!
Recipe – Baked Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake Recipe (Save/Pin)
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Ingredients
For the crust
- Oreo cookies 100 grams (or dark colored cookies)
- Sugar – 1 tbsp
- Melted Butter – 2 tbsp
For the cheesecake filling
- Cream cheese – 450 grams (1 lbs or 16 oz)
- Sour cream – 120 ml (4 oz or 1/2 cup)
- Egg – 1 large
- Castor sugar – 50 grams (1/4 cup)
- Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
- Cornstarch – 2 tbsp
- Cherry filling – 250 ml (8 oz/1 cup)
- Vanilla – 1 tsp
Method
Prepare
- Preheat the oven to 160 C / 320 F
- Wrap foil around a 7″ round springform pan to bake in a water bath.
Alternatively, pour water in a second tray below the pan like have done in the video. - Strain some of the cherry filling thru a mesh/sieve to get about 1/4 cup of smooth sauce.
- Melt chocolate in a double boiler or microwave at 50% power. Set aside to cool.
For the crust
- Pulse cookies in a food processor until coarse
- In a bowl combine crushed cookies and melted butter
- Divide between prepared pans.
- Use the back of a 1/4 measure cup to help press the crumbs firmly to the base.
- Let chill in the fridge while you make the filling
Prepare Filling
- In a mixing bowl combine cream cheese, sour cream,
- Add the sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, salt – combine well
- Add the egg and vanilla – combine well
- Lastly, add the strained cherry sauce followed by the melted cooled chocolate and combine well.
- Pour over the chilled crust ready for baking.
Bake & cool
- Place on the center rack in the preheated oven
- Pour about a cup of hot water on the outside of the baking pan
- Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until the top is set but still slightly wobbly
- Once baked remove and let cool in the pan for 10 minutes
- Place in the fridge to cool completely
Topping and Garnish
- Once cooled unmold onto a serving platter
- Garnish with fresh cherries or pour more cherry filling/sauce on top.
- Enjoy!
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Baked Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake Recipe
Ingredients
For the crust
- 100 grams Oreo cookies
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 2 tbsp Melted Butter -
For the cheesecake filling
- 450 grams Cream cheese (16 oz)
- 120 ml Sour cream (1/2 cup)
- 1 Large Egg
- 50 grams Castor sugar (1/4 cup)
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
- 2 tbsp Cornstarch
- 250 ml Cherry filling (1 cup)
- 1 tsp Vanilla
Instructions
Prepare
- Preheat the oven to 160 C / 320 F
- Wrap foil around a 7" round springform pan to bake in a water bath.Alternatively, pour water in a second tray below the pan like have done in the video.
- Strain some of the cherry filling thru a mesh/sieve to get about 1/4 cup of smooth sauce.
- Melt chocolate in a double boiler or microwave at 50% power. Set aside to cool.
Prepare crust
- Pulse cookies in a food processor until coarse
- In a bowl combine crushed cookies and melted butter
- Divide between prepared pans.
- Use the back of a 1/4 measure cup to help press the crumbs firmly to the base.
- Let chill in the fridge while you make the filling
Prepare filling
- In a mixing bowl combine cream cheese, sour cream,
- Add the sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, salt - combine well
- Add the egg and vanilla - combine well
- Lastly, add the strained cherry sauce followed by the melted cooled chocolate and combine well.
- Pour over the chilled crust ready for baking.
Bake in water bath
- Place on the center rack in the preheated oven
- Pour about a cup of hot water on the outside of the baking pan
- Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until the top is set but still slightly wobbly
- Once baked remove and let cool in the pan for 10 minutes
- Place in the fridge to cool completely
Garnish & Serve
- Once cooled unmold onto a serving platter
- Garnish with fresh cherries or pour more cherry filling/sauce on top.
- Enjoy!
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Heather
YES to all of this!! This looks amazing and so decadent. Love the combination of cherry and chocolate and you show how easy this is to make. Perfect recipe!
Veena Azmanov
Thanks, Heather. You will love this cake.
swathi
Chocolate cheery cheesecake looks delicious, I can every day, I have seen this combo in cakes never in cheesecakes. Yum .
Veena Azmanov
Thanks, Swathi. Yes, this is a classic combination of cakes too.
Marisa Franca
Oh, Veena! Your dessert looks sinfully rich and decadent. I love the combination of chocolate and cherries and so does Hubby. I believe we like our cheesecake because it’s not quite as sweet as a regular cake. We love the creaminess of dessert. I’m so glad that cherries are in season right now.
Veena Azmanov
Thanks, Marisa. This is definitely sinful and decadent. You must take advantage of the summer cherries.
Jyothi (Jo)
I love chocolate anything, i mean who doesn’t right! Cheesecake with cherries sounds like a perfect pair. Looks delicious
Veena Azmanov
Absolutely, Jyothi. Who doesn’t love cheesecake?
Claudia Lamascolo
i just love cherry anything and chocolate covered cherries are my fav candy I am sure this will be a slice of heaven for me!
Veena Azmanov
Thank you, Claudia. I’m sure you will love it.
Valerie
Your cheesecake looks terrific! Cheesecake is my favorite dessert in the world so it’s always interesting to see how different people prepare theirs.
Veena Azmanov
Thank you, Valerie. I hope you enjoy this one.
Gloria
I am a cheesecake lover. Baked, frozen, non-baked…ALL are good. The chocolate cherry combination is a winner. What a great dessert for a BBQ party this summer…..cherry season is in full swing right now.
Veena Azmanov
Thanks, Gloria. Yes, cherry season is in full swing here too.
Adriana Lopez Martin
wow and more wow this is a lovely idea using two of my favorite things: cherries and chocolate a true pair made in heaven. The cheesecake looks so velvety and yummy.
Veena Azmanov
Thank you, Adriana. Yes, cherries and chocolate do make a heavenly combination.
Shobee
We have been pigging out on cherries too. My husband ‘s colleague gave us a box of it and a cherry pie made with fresh cherries. This will be additional list on my menu/
Veena Azmanov
Thanks, Shobee. Yes, we have cherry season in full swing here too.