Creamy Chocolate-Amaretto Cheesecake

By rossboys

Cooking Light.

Ingredients

• 6 chocolate wafers (about 1-1/2oz)
• Cooking Spray
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup 1% low-fat cottage cheese
• 1/2 cup (4oz) block style fat-free cream cheese
• 6 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup amaretto (almond-flavored liqueur)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 (8oz) block 1/3 less fat cream cheese
• 1 lg egg
• 2 Tbsp semisweet chocolate minichips

Details

Servings 8

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 300 deg.

Place wafers in a food processor, and pulse until coarsely ground. Sprinkle crumbs into bottom of an 8" springform pan coated with cooking spray.

Place sugar and next 8 ingredients (sugar through cream cheese) in a food processor, and process until smooth. Add egg, and process until blended. Pour the cheese mixture into prepared pan, and sprinkle with minichips. Bake at 300 deg for 55 min or until the cheesecake center barely moves when pan is touched. Remove cheesecake from oven, and run a knife around outside edge. Cool to room temperature. Cover and chill at least 8 hrs.