Double Chocolate Cheesecake with Chocolate Ganache

Step 7 Baking time!

Pour this chocolaty mixture into your cookie crumb crust, slide it into your preheated 300 degree oven, and bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Now, this is the point where many are intimidated. How do I tell when a cheesecake is done? you ask. Well, you want it to be just 'set' so I recommend that, due to the varying temperatures of the ovens out there, you open your oven and do a check at the 50 minute -1 hour mark. When you pull out the oven rack that the cheesecake is on, see how jiggly it is. You want it to still be a bit jiggly, but not so much so that you cut into it the next day and out comes chocolate soup. If it jiggles a bit, and you can touch the top with your finger and it feels somewhat firm, your cheesecake is done baking. If it is still too jiggly, bake it for about 15 more minutes and then check it again.

Don't worry-once you've make a few cheesecakes, you'll be a pro at telling when they are perfectly done.

Comments

[davemonkey03]

What do you use if you don't have a springform pan?

[firefly68]

You're probably not around anymore, but I don't have one either. If I make this I'll use a regular pan, line the bottom with a piece of parchment or waxed paper cut to fit, and leave it in the pan until I'm ready to cut the slices. This sounds wonderful! I love Oreos but I am going to use either graham crackers or chocolate wafer cookies so that they don't dominate the flavors. I've had a trifle made with Oreos and they were all I could taste.