Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

Name: Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 1 cake
Ingredients: 6 cups cream cheese; 1/3 cup heavy cream; 2 cups sugar; 5 eggs; 1 lemon, rink; 1 orange rind; 1 dash salt; 1 cup canned pumpkin; 1/2 cup graham wafer crumbs; 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped; 1/2 cup heavy cream

Submitted by TishT

"Posted in response to a request. This is a back of the box recipe. I have not tried it myself but it looks wonderful for the holidays!"

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Ready In:: 1hr 30mins
Ingredients:: 11
Yields:: 1 cake

ingredients

6 cups cream cheese
¹⁄₃ cup heavy cream
2 cups sugar
5 eggs
1 lemon, rink
1 orange rind
1 dash salt
1 cup canned pumpkin
¹⁄₂ cup graham wafer crumbs
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8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
¹⁄₂ cup heavy cream

directions

Cream sugar and cream cheese until smooth.
Add heavy cream and mix well.
Add minced orange and lemon rinds and salt.
Grease a 10" springform pan and coat with layer of graham wafer crumbs.
Pour cheesecake mixture into prepared pan and swirl with canned pumpkin.
Set in pan of water and bake in 300F oven for an hour.
Cool cooked cheesecake and chill.
Meanwhile, bring cream to a boil and add chopped chocolate.
Stir until chocolate is melted.
Spread over cooled cheesecake.
To make a spider web design, make a thin white icing (powdered sugar and eggwhite mixed to the consistency of ehavy cream) and, starting at center of cheesecake, pipe a continuous spiral to the outer edge of the cake (practice on the counter first).
Pull a knife point from the center out through the white lines, dividing the cake into sixths.
Then reverse the procedure between the lines, pulling the knife from the outer edge to the center of the cake.
Refrigerate until served.

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TishT

Las Vegas, Nevada

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