WHITE CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE
Crust:
1-1/2 cups chocolate wafer crumbs
1/3 cup butter, melted
filling:
8 ounces white chocolate
1 pound cream cheese
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
1 teaspoon vanilla
topping:
1 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Garnish:
Chocolate curls
1 tablespoon confectioners sugar
- In bowl, combine wafer crumbs with butter; press into 9-inch spring-form pan.
- In top of double boiler over hot, not boiling, water, melt white chocolate; let cool for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in large bowl, beat cream cheese with sugar until light.
- Beat in eggs, 1 at a time.
- Beat in white chocolate, sour cream, orange rind and vanilla.
- Pour over crust; bake in 350F oven for 40 to 45 minutes or until just set.
- Combine sour cream, sugar and vanilla; spread over hot cake and return to oven for 3 to 5 minutes or until set.
- Immediately run knife around edge of cake to loosen.
- Let cool completely.
- Mound chocolate curls over cake; dust lightly with confectioners sugar.
- Chill. Serves 12