Milk Chocolate Cheesecake

Name: Milk Chocolate Cheesecake
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 16 , Oreo sandwich cookies, broken into rough pieces; 1 tablespoon, sugar plus 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces; 99 grams), divided; 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted; 8 ounces (227 grams), milk chocolate, chopped, divided; 1/3 cup, heavy cream; 2 tablespoons, unsweetened cocoa powder; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 1 1/2 pounds (680 grams), cream cheese, softened; 4 , large eggs, room temperature; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2015, Cook's Country TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Dessert Pies

Valentines Day

Replacing deep, dark chocolate with mild-mannered milk chocolate unlocked the secret to a fluffy, creamy chocolate cheesecake.

SERVES12

TIME2¾ hours, plus 9 hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a pleasantly sweet, chocolaty crust, we use Oreo cookies processed with butter and a bit of sugar, and bake the crust until crisp. For the filling, we melt milk chocolate with a small amount of cream for just the right amount of chocola...

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