Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake

Name: Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 12 serving(s)
Ingredients: 24 chocolate wafer cookies; 2 tablespoons sugar; 1/4 cup butter, melted; 2.5 (4 ounce) semisweet chocolate, baking bars divided; 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened; 1/2 cup sour cream, at room temperature; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 cup sugar; 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour; 5 large eggs; 1 (11 1/2 ounce) package chocolate chunks, divided; 3/4 cup whipping cream

Submitted by ratherbeswimmin

"2010 Christmas with Southern Living"

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Ready In:: 2hrs 15mins
Ingredients:: 12
Serves:: 12

ingredients

24 chocolate wafer cookies
2 tablespoons sugar
¹⁄₄ cup butter, melted
2.5 (4 ounce) semisweet chocolate, baking bars divided
3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
¹⁄₂ cup sour cream, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
5 large eggs
1 (11 1/2 ounce) package chocolate chunks, divided
³⁄₄ cup whipping cream

directions

Preheat oven to 350°; process cookies and 2 T sugar in a food processor until cookies are coarsely crushed.
With the processor running, pour butter through food chute; process until cookies are finely crushed.
Press mixture firmly on bottom of a lightly greased 9-inch springform pan.
Place springform pan in a shallow baking pan.
Bake for 10 minutes; let cool.
Decrease oven temperature to 325°.
Break 1 baking bar into squares and place in a microwave safe bowl; microwave on HIGH 1 minute; stir until smooth.
Beat cream cheese, sour cream, and vanilla at low speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
Gradually beat in melted chocolate; beat in 1 cup sugar and flour.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until yellow disappears.
Stir in 1 cup chocolate chunks.
Pour batter into baked crust; sprinkle with remaining chocolate chunks.
Bake for 1 hour until set.
Remove cheesecake from oven; gently run a knife around outer edge of cheesecake to loosen from sides of pan; cool completely on wire rack.
Cover and chill 8 hours.
Remove sides and bottom of pan; place cheesecake on a serving plate.
Chop remaining 1 1/2 baking bars and place in a microwave-safe bowl; add whipping cream, and microwave on HIGH 1 minute.
Stir until blended and smooth; let stand 5 minutes.
Pour ganache over chilled cheesecake; allowing ganache to spill over edges of cheesecake; smooth ganache with an offset spatula.
Chill at least 1 hour before serving.