Chocolate Cheesecake Topping

[jnice814]

When making a chocolate topping for a cheesecake, does one use a sour cream based topping? If not, how do I accomplish this successfully? I made a chocolate cheesecake with a chocolate topping over the holidays and the complaint was that it tasted like too much sour cream and everyone thought the combination of chocolate and sour cream was odd. Thank you.

[Tricia]

Hi,

if the sour cream and chocolate was too overpowering, why not try a plain ganache, or glaze? Equal parts sweet cream and chocolate, melted together, cool and pour over cheesecake.

[applepie]

how about topping it w/ raspberry or cherries or white chocolate sauce or you can garnish w/ chocolate shavings

[OrigCyn]

This is a decent topping...

For Cheesecake glaze
1/2 cup whipping cream
2 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
2 ounces milk chocolate, finely chopped

Bring cream to boil in heavy small saucepan. Remove from
heat. Add the 4 ounces chocolate and whisk until melted and smooth. (Let it cool a little.) Pour glaze over top of cake.

Using spatula, smooth glaze evenly over top. Refrigerate until glaze is set, at least 2 hours. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)

You can substitute chocolate chips for the above chocolate. The cheesecake should be refrigerated overnight, then glazed and refrigerated again.

[bjcotton]

Here's a good topping recipe:

1/3 cup whipping cream
1 1/4 cup chocolate morsels
1 tsp vanilla

Stir whipping cream and chocolate over low heat until chocolate melts. Stir in vanilla. Remove from heat. Carefully spread over cheesecake, allowing it to drip down sides.

[Cat1]

I once had this unbelieveable rasberry topping on chocolate cheesecake- it was too die for- I would go with the rasberries. Cat

[jnice814]

Other than taking rasberries, cherries, or any other kind of fruit out of a can, is there a particular way these should be prepared prior to using them as a cheesecake topping?

Once, I topped a cheesecake with an apple pie filling and I did not care for how it turned out. It seemed like I should have done something extra to the apple filling, so I never tried any fruit topping again.

[chefBren]

you can make a raspberry couli by blending fresh or frozen raspberries with a teaspoon of lemon juice and powdered sugar to taste. Then push it through a metal sieve to get the seeds out.
If you want something thicker try a nappage. Buy jelly and thin it down a bit. This will give you a glossy, sweeter coating.
Don't use fuit canned in heavy syrup for anything like this.

[chefBren]

I have no use for apple pie filling at all. If I wanted to make an apple pie, I'd use apples and for this, NO. There was nothing you can do to it to make it right on a cheesecake. Think "fresh" or frozen if you can't get it fresh; Not canned.

[ChefJune]

AMEN, Brenda! That stuff labeled *pie filling* is a nasty product, not fit for human consumption, imo.