Chocolate Cheesecake Raspberry Chocolate Drizzle

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The Chocolate Cheesecake Raspberry Chocolate Drizzle dessert is date night worthy with or without the date.

Here we are again.  Back to writing, creating, and talking about desserts. I have a sweet tooth just like everyone else. When I'm really craving a sweet treat, I want chocolate. Not just any chocolate...a deep, dark, chocolate something. 

As I started googling recipes, I ran across many chocolate cheesecake desserts. Choices like: To bake or not to bake. Adding fruit to the filling. The type of crust. Lots of ideas to ponder. 

For me, I have to watch the sugar, lactose, gluten, and all the stuff that accumulates in your gut and disrupts the ecosystem. Or something like that. Therefore, I created the Chocolate Cheesecake Raspberry Chocolate Drizzle a 'la Liz. 

​Chocolate Cheesecake Raspberry Chocolate Dribble
 
Ingredients: Cup of graham crackers (crushed)
2 ½ T. of melted butter
One envelope of unflavored gelatin
Cup of cold water
One four-ounce pkg. of Baker’s semisweet chocolate (coarsely chopped)
Four eight-ounce pkgs. of 1/3 less fat cream cheese (softened)
Cup and a 1/3rd of coconut sugar
¼ cup of cocoa
1 ½ T. of vanilla extract
Small container of fresh raspberries
Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup
 
Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix the melted butter and crushed graham crackers and press into a round pie pan that’s been greased. Bake until light brown, approximately 10 minutes depending on your oven.
 
Next, prepare the gelatin. Pour the cold water into a saucepan and add the gelatin. Let it sit a minute then turn the heat to low. Stir. Wait until the gelatin completely dissolves. Add the chocolate to the gelatin until melted. Stir again.
 
In your mixer, add the softened cream cheese and sugar and mix until the sugar is incorporated. Add the chocolate mixture and cocoa. Add vanilla. Pour into the graham cracker pie crust. Refrigerate for approximately two hours.
 
Cut into 12 pieces. Add the raspberries, chocolate drizzle, and whipped cream to individual pieces.

This dessert is easy and has Star Power. Make it tonight!