Today is National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day: Add Chocolate...I love pumpkin and chocolate... and cheesecake is my thing, so here's an easy recipe for a Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake! Celebrate.
Great for Halloween and Thanksgiving!
The
filling for this pumpkin cheesecake is adapted from Hershey's Kitchens. I like
this recipe because it includes Mini-Chocolate Chips in the filling! I don't like the original chocolate cookie crust from Hershey's, so I'm posting one of my favorites. Of course you can always just make a chocolate cookie crust with crushed chocolate wafers and a bit of melted butter, but try the one below.
PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE IN CHOCOLATE COOKIE CRUST
Ingredients
1 Chocolate Cookie Crust (see two possible recipes below)
3 packages (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp all-purpose flour
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 cup canned pumpkin
4 eggs
1-1/2 cups Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Directions
1. Prepare Chocolate Cookie Crust. Increase oven temperature to 400°F.
2.
Beat cream cheese, sugar, flour and pumpkin pie spice in large bowl
until well blended. Add pumpkin and eggs; beat until well blended. Fold
in mini-chocolate chips; pour batter into prepared crust. Bake 10
minutes.
3. Reduce oven temperature to 250°F; continue baking 60
minutes or until almost set. Remove from oven to wire rack. With knife,
loosen cake from side of pan. Cool completely; remove side of pan.
Refrigerate about 5 hours before serving.
CHOCOLATE COOKIE CRUST
30 chocolate wafers (Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers makes about 1-1/2 cups crumbs)
5 Tbsp sweet butter, melted and slightly cooled
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp Madagascar vanilla extract
1. Put cookies in container of food processor; process until finely ground.
2. Transfer crumbs to mixing bowl; combine crumbs, butter, salt, and vanilla; stir until crumbs are moistened.
3.
Press mixture evenly across the bottom of 9-inch springform pan and
all the way up sides of pan; pack tightly so crust is even and
compacted.
4. Bake in 350° oven for 6-8 minutes or until crisp.
5. Let cool completely before filling.
Oh Yes, Janet. Of course we needed a Pumpkin Cheesecake that included chocolate, lol...
ReplyDeleteI made a Pumpkin Carrot Cheese Bundt Cake on my blog, lol...
Thanks so much for sharing, Janet...
Oh, my, yes!
ReplyDeleteLovin' the pie recipes. :D