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Chocolate Cherry Truffle Cheesecake is for Dessert.

Chocolate Cherry Truffle Cheesecake takes 300 minutes to prepare.

Chocolate Cherry Truffle Cheesecake takes 80 minutes to cook.

Chocolate Cherry Truffle Cheesecake makes 20 servings.

The ingredients for Chocolate Cherry Truffle Cheesecake are:

Crust:
? cup dried cherries
? cup port wine (or cherry juice)
⅓ cup unsalted butter, softened
⅓ cup shortening
? tsp Kosher salt
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
⅓ cup dark brown sugar
1 ? cups barley or whole wheat pastry flour
⅓ cup cocoa powder
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Filling:
14 oz chopped best-quality bittersweet chocolate
4 oz chopped unsweetened chocolate
1 (10 oz / 300 mL) can sweetened condensed milk
24 oz cream cheese, softened
? cup sour cream
2 large eggs
4 oz silken tofu
? tsp salt
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? cup cherry pie filling, pureed until smooth
chocolate wafers and/or chocolate covered cherries, for decoration

Here is how you make Chocolate Cherry Truffle Cheesecake:

Crust:Combine cherries and port in a small bowl. Let stand at least 30 minutes (do not drain).In a large bowl, cream the butter, shortening, salt, egg, vanilla and sugar until fluffy.Sift in flour and cocoa, mixing until incorporated. Fold in cherries and liquid. The dough should resemble a chocolate chip cookie.Spread dough into the bottom of a greased and parchment-lined 10? spring-form pan and freeze 1 hour.Bake at 400 ?F for 20 minutes or until just firm. Set aside to cool.---Filling:Reduce oven temperature to 325?F and wrap the outside of the spring-form pan with foil.Melt together the chocolates and condensed milk. Cool slightly.In a food processor, puree cream cheese, sour cream, eggs, tofu and salt until smooth. Add chocolate and beat until combined.Pour mixture onto prepared crust.Spoon dollops of pureed pie filling onto the cheese mixture and swirl lightly with a knife.Bake in preheated oven for about 1 hour or until filling is set.Refrigerate, covered, at least 8 hours or overnight.Serving Size: Makes one large cake, 20 slicesNumber of Servings: 20Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JO_JO_BA.

The nutritional information for Chocolate Cherry Truffle Cheesecake is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 20
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 449.0

• Total Fat: 31.4 g
• Cholesterol: 79.9 mg
• Sodium: 181.3 mg
• Total Carbs: 37.7 g
• Dietary Fiber: 4.1 g
• Protein: 8.3 g

The dietary needs meet for Chocolate Cherry Truffle Cheesecake is Vegetarian