Strawberry Cheesecake

Total Time: 2 hrs 45 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 4 (1 ounce) chocolate baking squares, melted
• 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup flour
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 lb strawberry
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/3 cup maple syrup

Recipe

• 1 crust.
• 2 in a medium bowl, combine cracker crumbs and brown sugar. stir in melted butter.
• 3 press the mixture firmly into bottom and up sides of a 10-inch spring form pan.
• 4 bake for 8 minutes and let the crust cool completely before spreading the pie filling over it.
• 5 cheesecake.
• 6 preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• 7 wrap the outside of a 10 inch springform pan with foil.
• 8 place the cream cheese, sugar, and flour in a mixing bowl and cream until light and fluffy.
• 9 beat in eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. scrape bowl.
• 10 with an electric mixer on low speed, mix melted chocolate into cream cheese mixture.
• 11 keeping electric mixer on low, slowly beat in the vanilla and 1/2 cup of heavy cream. blend well.
• 12 pour mixture into the prepared springform pan.
• 13 place cheesecake pan in a water bath filled with warm water.
• 14 bake 70 minutes, or until center of the cheesecake is just firm.
• 15 cool at room temperature for 1 hour.
• 16 refrigerate until set before removing from pan.
• 17 topping.
• 18 mash 1/3 cup of the strawberries.
• 19 add approximately 1/2 cup of water to the mashed strawberries.
• 20 in a small saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch, add berry liquid and maple syrup.
• 21 cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils and thickens, boil 1 minute.
• 22 stir in the rest of the strawberries and cool to room temperature before serving.