Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• 10 ounces mint flavored chocolate sandwich style cookies
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
• 4 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons sour cream
• 2 ounces chocolate chips
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream
• 10 peppermint patty candies, halved

Recipe

• 1 to make the crust preheat oven to 350.
• 2 wrap foil inside and around sides of 9 inch springform pan.
• 3 in a food processor, pulse cookies into fine crumbs add four tablespoons melted butter and process until crumbs are moist and hold together.
• 4 press crumbs into bottom and up sides of pan. bale for ten minutes and transer to a wire rack to cool.
• 5 for filling, in a large bowl beat cream cheese with electric mixer until fluffy.
• 6 gradually beat in sugar, flour, vanilla and peppermint.
• 7 scrape down sides of bowl.
• 8 add eggs one at a time beating after each addition.
• 9 mix in sour cream until well blended.
• 10 carefully pour filling into crust.
• 11 place foil wrapped pan in a larger deep pan.
• 12 heat water in a kettle and pour into larger pan til it reaches halfway up sides of cake pan.
• 13 bake for 1 hour and ten minutes until edges are set and center jiggles.
• 14 transer to a wire rack to cool.
• 15 loosesly cover cake and refrigerate until cold.
• 16 for the glaze melt chocolate and butter in a bowl and set over saucepan of hot water stirring often.
• 17 remove from heat.
• 18 whisk in confectioner's sugar and cream.
• 19 drizzle glaze over cooled cake.
• 20 artfully arrange peppermint pattys on top of cake.