Sinful Cheesecake Recipes

SINFUL CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• 1. FOR THE CRUST: Melt butter and mix in crumbs until well blended. Press into a 9-inch springform pan.
• 2. FOR THE BROWNIE LAYER: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine sugar, butter and water in a bowl. Stir in egg and vanilla. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt in another bowl. Stir into sugar mixture. Spread in pan over crust. Sprinkle chocolate chips and pecans on top. Bake for 10 minutes. While it is baking, prepare the filling.
• 3. FOR THE CREAM CHEESE FILLING: Blend cream cheese, milk, sour cream, and egg. Blend well. Now, after the brownie portion has been in oven 10 minutes, take it out of oven. Spread the cream cheese filling on top of brownie. Put back in oven for 30 minutes.(when you take it out, the center might be a little shaky..that's ok). Let the cake cool until firm and set--couple of hours. Once cooled, carefully remove the side of your springform pan.
• 4. Once cooled and removed from pan, add the next ingredients in this order: melted chocolate chips, drizzled on top, chopped pecans, sprinkled on top, semi-sweet chocolate chips, sprinkled on top, white chocolate chips, sprinkled on top, caramel sauce, drizzled on top.

SLIGHTLY LESS SINFUL SNICKERS CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cover bottom of 10" springform pan with parchment, grease parchment and sides of pan (can spray, if you prefer).
• Using a food processor, finely crush Oreos, add melted butter, process until mixed.
• Use a fork to press into the greased pan, pressing up the sides slightly.
• Bake for 6 minutes. Set aside.
• Prepare filling: Using a large bowl and electric mixer, beat cream cheese until it is light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well in between.
• Add sour cream and sugar, mix well.
• Take 2 Snickers bars and cut into 1/4 inch slices. Reserve 14 slices, separate and put on a plate in the fridge.
• Coarsly chop all remaining snickers bars.
• Gently fold in the mini chips and chopped snickers. Pour into pan, over the baked crust. Return to oven for about 50 minutes. It should be very lightly browned.
• In order to prevent cracking you need to change temperatures slowly. Here's what works for me. Turn the oven off, set timer for 5 minutes. After timer goes off, rollup a hotpad and use it to crack the oven door open. Set timer for another 5 minutes. Open oven door a little more and set the timer for another 5 minutes. Pull out cheesecake and sit on a wire rack. After 10 minutes or so, run a sharp knive around the inside of the springform pan. You can spring the pan after you do this. Allow it to fully cool just like this.
• Prepare glaze: Melt chocolate chips (mini or regular), butter and just a little of the half and half. in the microwave or use a double boiler. If using the microwave stir every 30 seconds. Chocolate chips melt but keep their shape, so they are deceiving to the eye. Stir until smooth, use your judgement as to how much of the cream you want to use. Smooth glaze over the top of the cheesecake, place your refrigerated cut Snickers pieces over the cake as decoration, garnish with chopped peanuts, if desired.

SINFUL CHEESECAKE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Line a 9-inch (23cm) square pan with foil, making sure it goes up all four sides. Use two sheets if necessary. Mist with non-stick spray or grease lightly.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees (180C).
• In a medium saucepan, melt the butter and chocolate over low heat, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat and beat in the 2/3 cup (130g) sugar, then the eggs.
• Mix in the flour, cocoa powder and salt, then the vanilla and chocolate chips. Spread evenly in the prepared pan.
• In a separate bowl, beat together the cream cheese, the yolk, 5 tablespoons (75g) of sugar, and vanilla until smooth.
• Distribute the cream cheese mixture in eight dollops across the top of the brownie mixture, then take a dull knife or spatula and swirl the cream cheese mixture with the chocolate batter.
• Bake for 35 minutes, or until the batter in the center of the pan feels just set.
• Let cool, then lift out the foil and peel it away. Cut the brownies into squares.
• Storage: These will keep in an airtight container for a couple of days. They also freeze well, too.