Recipe: Chocolate Cheesecake

[ 8 ] 02/14/2010 | christieo

We’re continuing the ooey gooey chocolatey goodness this weekend with a sweet, delicious recipe perfect for Valentine’s Day! I found this recipe on Weight Watchers, and guess what my family is getting for their Valentine’s treat?

Yup.

Mini Chocolate Cheesecakes with Chocolate Crusts. A mere 3 points in Weight Watchers. Or 150 calories/5 grams of fat, your pick!

Ingredients:

12 item(s) chocolate wafer(s), about 2 1/2 oz
8 oz Neufchatel cheese, softened
1 cup(s) fat free milk
2/3 cup(s) sugar
2 envelope(s) unflavored gelatin
3 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa
1 cup(s) water, boiling

Directions:

Line 12 muffin tins with paper muffin liners. Or, if you’re getting creative, I found little individual alumimum heart-shaped cupcake tins at Target and used those. Place a wafer in the bottom of each of 12 muffin tins (or custard cups); set aside. If the wafer doesn’t fit in bottom of muffin liners, break into pieces to cover bottom, which I had to do.

Blend cheese in food processor or blender until loose. While blending, pour in milk.

In a separate medium bowl, mix together sugar, gelatin and cocoa with a fork or spoon. Slowly add boiling water, mixing as you go; mix quickly until gelatin has completely dissolved.

Pour cocoa mixture into blender with cheese mixture while blending, blend for about 1 minute. Fill each muffin liner (or custard cup) to the top, about 1/3 cup of cheese mixture. Chill for at least 2 hours. Yields 1 per serving.

You can make them in advance and store them in the fridge. They’re really really yummy! This is what they looked like

all lined up in my fridge. I am wrapping them up in pretty little Valentine’s bags to use for gifts for the grandparents! The kids loved helping me with this and it was so easy and no baking involved! I do, however, highly recommend you wash the bowls and blender quickly because the gelatin gets quite sticky on there (as I have found out) and it’s really hard to get off. Just a little tip. (Learn from my mistakes.)

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! (Will you be my valentine??)

About christieo: Christie O. is a 30-something freelance writer and mommy to two little boys. She loves training for random races to lose weight and who went literally from couch to 5k to half-ironman to marathon, losing 55 pounds along the way. Christie O. also blogs at www.averagemomswearcapes.com. View author profile.

babyboy3

Sounds yummy. What are the chocolate wafers?
http://www.melsboxofchocolates.com/ Mel's Box of Chocolates

Must go by those little pans immediately. These look awesome and can't wait to try making them. Looks like a perfect (WW friendly) chocolate dessert! Thanks for sharing.
http://www.babytealeaves.blogspot.com Christie O.

They're called Famous Chocolate Wafers, they're thin round chocolate cookies and after searching for them all over the store (in the cookie aisle), I found them near the ice cream cones and the ice cream toppings!
http://celeryinthecity.com/ Andrea @ CeleryInTheCity

These look SO good! I've always wanted to make mini cheesecakes..think this is the recipe that'll make me go for it!
http://www.extremehomeworkout.com/ Jessica

This looks really yummy! But I was just going to ask, will the wafer serve as its crust? Because I'd like to go and try chocolate flavored crushed grahams for its crust. But if that won't work out is it ok if I just place wafers at the bottom? Or do I have to fill the bottom up so that no empty spaces shows up?

Thanks in advance! Sorry I have so many questions because it's the first time that I'm gonna try this.
http://christy.shrinkingjeans.net Christy_TheSistherhood

In this recipe, the wafer doesn't really serve as a crust. It kind of floats up in cheesecake and is just a nice surprise. I have made cheesecakes with the chocolate graham crackers, but I had to crush them up with some butter, and then press them into the bottom of the dish. Good luck!
http://christy.shrinkingjeans.net Christy_TheSistherhood

In this recipe, the wafer doesn't really serve as a crust. It kind of floats up in cheesecake and is just a nice surprise. I have made cheesecakes with the chocolate graham crackers, but I had to crush them up with some butter, and then press them into the bottom of the dish. Good luck!
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that looks really good…can’t wait to try it…though i might have to find a substitute for this one – Neufchatel cheese