Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cheesecake
photo by Sally
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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10-12
ingredients
- 1 cup vanilla wafer crumbs (about 30 wafers)
- 1⁄4 cup cocoa
- 1⁄4 cup powdered sugar
- 1⁄4 cup butter (1/2 stick) or 1/4 cup margarine, melted (1/2 stick)
- 3 packages cream cheese, softened (8 oz. each)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, ground
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 4 eggs
- 1 1⁄2 cups mini chocolate chips
- to taste semi-sweet chocolate leaves (optional)
directions
- Heat oven to 350'F.
- In medium bowl, combine crumbs, cocoa and powdered sugar; stir in butter.
- Press mixture onto bottom and 1/2 inch up side of 9-inch springform pan.
- Bake 8 minutes; cool slightly.
- increase oven temperature to 400 F.
- In large mixer bowl, beat cream cheese, granulated sugar; flour and pumpkin pie spice until well blended.
- Add pumpkin and eggs; beat until well blended.
- Stir in small chocolate chips; pour into prepared Crust. Bake 10 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 250 F; continue baking 50 minutes.
- Remove from oven to cooling rack; loosen cake from rim of pan.
- Cool completely; remove rim.
- Refrigerate. Garnish with chocolate leaves, if desired.
- Cover; refrigerate leftovers.
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Reviews
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I'm not sure how to rate this. Everyone seemed to like it well enough, but no one raved about it, and I, personally, did not care for it. I felt the combination of flavors kind of cancelled eachother out. Of course, I should tell you that I didn't exactly follow the directions. I added the rest of the can of pumpkin (about another 1/3 c.) and doubled the spices after tasting the batter and thinking it was fairly bland. In the end, it was a lovely, moist, dense, even pretty cheesecake...I'm just not sure it was my cup of tea!
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