This absolutely perfect Chocolate Cheesecake is for all of the chocolate lovers out there! It is topped with an easy raspberry sauce that makes this chocolate cheesecake simply irresistible!
I think cheesecakes might be my new thing. Like maybe I should make a cheesecake every month to share with you just for fun? My pants might not like it but DANG they are good! And pretty easy, too. This Chocolate Cheesecake with Raspberry Sauce is one that looks pretty fancy and difficult but I promise you – it is absolutely not!
This chocolate cheesecake really only takes a few steps to make, and a handful of ingredients – so let’s get to it!
Oreos/Chocolate cookies
Butter
Cream Cheese
Sugar
Eggs
Vanilla Extract
Heavy Cream
Cocoa Powder
Semisweet Chocolate Chips
See? Pretty simple ingredients! Bonus: the crust doesn’t use the entire package of Oreos which leaves a handful leftover to snack on 😉
The raspberry sauce is made of cornstarch, sugar, water, and raspberries. Again, super simple.
This recipe starts with the crust. Using a large food processor will make this infinitely easier, as you can simply combine the Oreos and butter in the food processor to create the crust mixture. After pressing it into a springform pan, the crust gets baked for about 10 minutes.
While the crust is baking, you can make the cheesecake filling. It’s as simple as beating the cream cheese and sugar, and then adding the cocoa powder, vanilla salt, eggs, and melted semisweet chocolate.
The filling gets poured into the baked crust and then baked for another hour in a water bath. Water baths used to intimidated me because of the spillage possibility but I learned a fun trick that makes spilling much less likely. Simply put the large pan that you will be using in the oven without water, place the springform pan in it, and then fill it with water while it’s already in the oven. When it’s done baking, remove the springform pan from the larger pan first directly from the oven. Then you don’t have to worry about water spilling to/from the oven.
I don’t think I need to tell you all of the reasons you should make this chocolate cheesecake. It’s plain to see from the photos that it is straight up delicious. It’s super creamy, almost mousse-like, but it holds up as a cheesecake. I always love Oreo crusts and this one pairs perfectly with the chocolate cheesecake filling.
And the raspberry sauce on top – pure perfection! If you’re not a raspberry fan or don’t want to do that step – it will still be amazing without it BUT I do highly recommend it.
This cheesecake is perfect for Valentine’s Day and is going to be our Palentine’s Day dinner party dessert this year!
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