Chocolate Cheese Cranberry Pie Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. Unroll the crust into a 9-in. pie plate; flute edge. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese, milk and lemon juice until smooth. Spread evenly into crust., In a small bowl, mix cranberry layer ingredients; spoon over cream cheese mixture. For topping, in another bowl, mix flour, brown sugar and cinnamon; cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in pecans. Sprinkle over cranberry layer., Bake 45-55 minutes or until crust and topping are golden brown. Cover edge loosely with foil during the last 10 minutes if needed to prevent overbrowning. Remove foil. Cool 1 hour on a wire rack; refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving.

Steps:

• On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim crust to 1/2 in. beyond rim of plate; flute edge. Refrigerate 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 450°., Line unpricked crust with a double thickness of foil. Fill with pie weights, dried beans or uncooked rice. Bake on a lower oven rack 15-20 minutes or until edge is light golden brown. Remove foil and weights; bake 3-6 minutes longer or until bottom is golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. Reduce oven setting to 350°., In a large bowl, beat eggs, sugar and melted butter until well blended. Gradually add flour until blended. Stir in remaining ingredients; pour into crust., Bake 30-35 minutes or until top is bubbly and crust is golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. Refrigerate leftovers.

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 350 degree's. Prepare cranberry topping. In a saucepan. Place water, sugar, orange juice, orange zest,and corn starch mix well. Heat burner to high heat. Add cranberries.
• 2. Bring to a boil. Stir and boil until cranberries burst. Reduce heat to low. Continue cooking until mixture thickens up. Remove from heat. Add liquor optional, and stir. Pour in to bowl and refrigerate.
• 3. Make crust. In a bowl. Mix graham cracker crumbs with sugar, and melted butter. Combine really well. Stir in the walnuts and pour in to pie pan. Pat mixture in to pan and up sides bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Remove from oven.
• 4. Make ganache. In a bowl mix chocolate chips with cream. Microwave on high 1 minute. Stop and stir. Heat again 20 seconds stop and stir. Continue doing this until chocolate is melted. Pour ganache on top of crust. Sprinkle chopped walnuts on top.Place in fridge to cool.
• 5. When cooled. Make top layer. Melt chocolate chips in microwave. Stop and stir every 30 seconds until melted. In a bowl beat cream cheese with softened butter, and sugar until smooth. Add the melted chocolate. Beat until combined well. Fold in the cool whip, or other non dairy topping until no white shows. Pour over Ganache in pie pan. Smooth with spatula, or spoon. Refrigerate until set.
• 6. Before serving. Top with Cranberry topping, or cold cherry pie filling. Serve with cool whip or whipped cream.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F In small saucepan, combine cranberry sauce and chocolate. Cook and stir over medium-low heat until melted.
• In medium bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, crushed gingersnaps, granulated sugar and flour. Stir in melted butter. Press onto bottom and 1 1/2 inches up side of 8-inch springform pan.
• In large bowl, combine cream cheese and powdered sugar. Beat with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla; beat on low speed just until combined. Set aside 3/4 cup of the mixture.
• Spread remaining cream cheese mixture in crust-lined pan. Spread with cranberry mixture. Top with reserved cream cheese mixture. Gently swirl narrow metal spatula through layers to marble.
• Place sprinform pan in shallow baking pan. Bake about 45 minutes or until center appears nearly set when gently shaken.
• Cool on wire rack for 15 minutes. Loosen crust; cool for 30 minutes. Remove side of pan; cool cheesecake.
• Cover and chill for 4 to 24 hours.