Chocolate Peanut-Butter Swirl Cheesecake
* Exported from MasterCook *
Chocolate Peanut-Butter Swirl Cheesecake
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Serving Size : 16 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Dessert/Cheesecakes
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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2 cups
graham cracker crumbs
6 tablespoons butter or margarine -- melted
sugar
8 1 ounce semisweet
chocolate square
32 ounces
cream cheese -- at room temperature
1/4 cup
milk
5 large
eggs
2/3 cup
creamy peanut butter
In 10 x 3 springform pan, mix graham-cracker crumbs, butter, and 1/4 cup sugar. Press
mixture onto bottom and up side of pan. Refrigerate. In small saucepan over low
heat, heat chocolate until melted and smooth, stirring frequently. Remove saucepan
from heat; cool chocolate slightly. In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat cream
cheese until smooth; slowly beat in 1 1/4 cups sugar. With mixer at low speed, beat
in milk and eggs; beat 3 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Remove 1
cup batter to small bowl; stir in peanut butter until well blended. Into batter
remaining in large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat melted chocolate until blended.
Pour chocolate batter into pan. Preheat oven to 475 deg. Spoon dollops of
peanut-butter mixture onto batter. With knife or small metal spatula, cut and twist
through mixtures to obtain marbled effect. Bake cheesecake 10 minutes. Reduce heat
to 300 deg. Bake 50 minutes. Turn oven off. Leave cheesecake in oven 30
minutes longer with oven door slightly ajar. Remove cheesecake from oven; cool in pan on
wire rack. Cover and refrigerate cheesecake at least 4 hours or overnight.
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NOTES : By: Carole
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