Cafe Au Lait Cheesecake

Title:
Cafe Au Lait Cheesecake

Yield:
16 Servings

Categories:
Cheesecakes,
Bread




Ingredients:





          **CRUST**


     3 tb Grape-Nuts?


     1 tb Walnuts -- chopped


     1 tb Sugar


          **CAKE**


    16 oz Nonfat cottage cheese


    12 oz Lowfat cream cheese --


          Softened


 1 1/4 c  Sugar


 1 1/3 c  Lowfat sour cream


     2 lg Eggs


     2 lg Egg whites


   1/3 c  All-purpose flour


     2 tb Instant coffee powder --


          Expresso


     3 tb Coffee liqueur


     4 ts Unsweetened cocoa powder


   1/4 ts Salt


   1/8 ts Cinnamon






 Preheat oven to 300F.  Line bottom of 9" springform pan with parchment


 paper; coat with vegetable cooking spray.


 


 Prepare crust:  Combine cereal, walnuts and sugar in food processor; pulse


 to coarse crumbs.  Sprinkle over bottom of prepared pan.


 


 Spoon cottage cheese into fine-mesh siever set over bowl.  Cover with


 plastic wrap and press to remove excess liquid.  Transfer to food processor


 and process until smooth, 2 minutes.  Add cream cheese, sugar, sour cream,


 eggs, egg whites and flour.  Process until blended, about 15 seconds.


 


 Dissolve instant expresso in liqueur in cup.  add to processor with cocoa,


 salt and cinnamon.  Process until blended, 15 seconds.  Pour into prepared


 pan.  Bake 1 1/4 hours, until just set in center.  Turn off oven.  Leave


 cheesecake in oven 30 minutes.  Transfer to wire rack.  Run thin knife or


 spatula around edges of pan.  Cool completely.  Cover and refrigerate 4


 hours or overnight.  remove sides of pan and garnish with coffee beans or


 powder.


 


 Recipe By     : Ladies' Home Journal


 


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