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Ultimate Chocolate Cheesecake

This ultimate chocolate cheesecake recipe is a chocolate lover's dream. It has a rich chocolatey taste and a luscious creamy texture. Made with low-fat cream cheese and light sour cream, it has fewer calories than regular cheesecake but tastes just as decadent as you'd expect of a chocolate dessert.

Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
28 mins
Servings: 12
Calories: 255 kcal
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

  • 12 chocolate cookies (like oreo, or you favourite cut up with a cookie cutter to that size)
  • 1 block low fat cream cheese 16 oz, room temperature
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 2 egg
  • 1/2 cup low fat sour cream
  • 8 ounces semi sweet chocolate (dark or milk) chocolate chips, melted in a bowl in the microwave for 45 seconds
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa powder (for a darker chocolate taste—optional, but recommended)
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Toppings:
  • Homemade Caramel Sauce or
Milk Chocolate Ganache:
  • 2 tablespoons of low fat milk
  • 1/2 cup of dark chocolate chips

Instructions

Chocolate Ganache:

Notes

  • Take your chocolate cheesecake to the next level by flavoring it with orange zest, mint extract, almond extract, cinnamon and whatever you like your chocolate with.
  • Add a tablespoon of espresso to your cheesecake mixture to elevate the chocolate flavor.
  • As tempting as they smell, let these mini cheesecakes cool completely and give them a good rest in the fridge before eating them! They taste so much better that way!