Raspberry mirror cheesecake

1 Cheesecake

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1¼ cup Chocolate wafer cookie crumb
⅓ cup Butter, melted
8 ounces Semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
2 cups Cream cheese, softened 2x250 g pkgs
1 cup Granulated sugar
3 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla
300 grams Frozen raspberries, thawed
½ cup Granulated sugar
1½ teaspoon Gelatin

Directions

FILLING

GLAZE

1. Assemble 9-inch springform pan with base lip-side down. stir cookie crumbs with butter until moistened; with back of spoon, press evenly onto bottom of pan. Centre pan on foil squar; press foil up to cover side of pan. Bake in 325F 160C oven for 5 minutes. Set aside.

2. filling: Meanwhile, in large bowl set over hot (not boiling) water, melt chocolate; set aside and let cook to room temperature. in separate bowl, beat cream cheese with sugar for 2 minutes or until smooth and light. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, scraping down side of bowl often. Beat in vanilla.

3. Stir half of the cream cheese mixture into cooled chocolate; scrape onto baked crust. Gently pour remaining cream cheese mixture evenly over top.

4. Set pan in larger pan; pour in enough hot water to come 1 inch up sid eof pan. Bake in 325F 160C oven for 1 hour or just until no longer shiny and top does not jiggle. Turn oven off. Let cool in oven for 1 hour. Remove from oven and water; let cool to room temperature.

Refrigerate uncovered, until chilled.

5. Glaze: Meanwhile, press thawed raspberries through fine sieve to make ¾ cup juice. In saucepan, bring juice and sugar to boil over medium-high heat; cook, stirring, for 30 seconds or until dissolved.

Whisk ¼ cup into gelatin in bowl; let stand for 1 minute. Stir in remaining raspberry mixture.

6. Refrigerate glaze, stirring often, for about 1 hour or untilconsistency of liquid honey. Pour over chilled cake, gently spreading with back of spoon to evenly cover top. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until glaze is set. Source: Canadian Living magazine {Jul 95] [Cooking Lesson] Contibuted by: Taunya St. Pierre, Perth, Ontario, Canada

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