Chocolate Orange Cheesecakes by brianjwood

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Chocolate Orange Cheesecakes
Submitted by brianjwood on September 30, 2004 at 8:33 am

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Chocolate Orange Cheesecakes

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Title: Chocolate Orange Cheesecakes
Categories: Cakes
Yield: 12 Pieces

2 T unsalted butter,softened,
plus additional for
-greasing m
12 chocolate wafers such as
-Nabisco
-Famous (1/2 cup)
1/3 c packed light brown sugar
4 oz cream cheese,softened
Rounded 1/4 teaspoon finely
-grated
-fresh orange zest
1/2 c well-chilled heavy cream

[Note: Gourmet September 2004 ]
Special equipment: a nonstick mini-muffin pan with 12 (1/8-cup) muffin cups
Garnish: bittersweet chocolate shavings (made with a vegetable peeler)
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350F. Butter
muffin cups.
Grind wafers to a fine powder in a food processor.
Mix together wafer crumbs, 2 tablespoons butter, and 2 tablespoons
brown sugar in a bowl with a rubber spatula until combined well. Divide
crumbs among muffin cups, then firmly press onto bottom and a little up
side of each cup with your fingertips or with bottom of an 1/8-cup
measure by twisting measure.
Bake 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack and cool in muffin pan 10
minutes. Gently rotate crusts with your fingertips to loosen and turn
out onto rack.
Beat together cream cheese, zest, and remaining brown sugar (3
tablespoons plus 1/3 teaspoon) with an electric mixer at medium-high
speed until fluffy. Beat cream in another bowl with cleaned beaters
until it just holds stiff peaks. Stir about one third of whipped cream
into cream cheese mixture to lighten, then gently fold in remaining
whipped cream until just combined.
Mound filling into crusts with a spoon (or pipe filling into crusts
with a pastry bag) and serve, or chill until ready to serve.

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