White Chocolate Cheesecake

White Chocolate Cheesecake

Tonya and I have been married for a year now.  

But we have been common-law for 21 years.

When I cooked this cheesecake, she was still "Bennett".

Start with your graham cracker crumbs.  Make sure they haven't spoiled on you.  That's another story to be told over a glass of wine.

Add your sugar to the graham cracker crumbs and melt the butter.

Add the melted butter.

Stir up everything.

Dump into the spring pan and start flattening it out

Flatten, flatten, flatten

Using a spoon to continue flattening

Happy with the flattening

Break out the Philadelphia Creme Cheese 

In a microwave safe bowl, nuke it to get it soft

Into the mixer

Another brick of creme cheese

Into the nuker

Watch out, it can get HOT on the sides of the bowl

45 seconds and click "Start"

Nuking, nuking, nuking

Into the mixer it goes

Mixing mixing mixing

Do up a double boiler.  Pan on the bottom with water and put the other pan on top.

Not done mixing yet.  Pretty sure I added vanilla around this spot.

Double boiler is boiling

Breaking out the white chocolate

Into the pot it goes

Tedious work open each little piece of chocolate

Gotta have the sour creme

The whole container into the mixer

Mixing and MORE mixing

Chocolate is melting

I am sure there is some movie quote out there about melting, just can't think of it

Scramble up the eggs

Into the mixer

Stiring around the white melted chocolate

Put the chocolate into the mixer

Make sure it's all mixed

Are you ready to have the cheesecake to be poured into the spring pan?

SIR!  YES SIR!

Filled it up rather nicely

Into the oven with the oven safe container of water.

This keeps the cheesecake top from drying out while cooking.

Crust:

1 1/4 C. chocolate wafer cookie crumbs

1/4 C. sugar

1/4 C. melted butter

Mix crust ingredients and pat into a 9 or 10 inch spring-form pan. Bake 10 minutes at 350°F.

Filling:

24 oz. cream cheese

1 1/2 C. sugar

3 eggs

1 C. sour cream

12 oz. melted chocolate

1 t. vanilla

Mix cream cheese and sugar together, blending well. Add eggs one at a time. Add sour cream, vanilla, then add melted chocolate.

Heat oven and add 8 C. boiling water to a pan and place on bottom oven shelf. This will provide moisture.

Bake at 400°F. for 15 minutes, turn oven down to 225°F. and bake another 50 minutes. or until set in the center. Turn oven off and let cheesecake set with oven door cracked 1 hour. Chill

As always, comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome.