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.
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