Recipe Ingredients
Crust
- Best Yet nonstick cooking spray
- 1 1/2 cups finely ground cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies (about 18 cookies)
- 5 tablespoons Best Yet unsalted butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon Best Yet granulated sugar
Filling
- 3 packages (8 oz. each) Best Yet cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup Best Yet granulated sugar
- 1 cup Best Yet 100% pure pumpkin
- 1 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 1/2 teaspoon Best Yet pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon Best Yet ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon Best Yet salt
- 6 tablespoons Best Yet sour cream
- 5 large Best Yet eggs, room temperature
- 1 1/3 cups Best Yet heavy cream
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons chopped bittersweet chocolate
Recipe Directions
- Prepare Crust: Adjust oven rack to middle position; preheat oven to 350. Wrap exterior of 9-inch spring form pan, including base in double layer of aluminum foil; spray pan with nonstick cooking spray
- In small bowl, combine cookie crumbs, butter and sugar; press firmly onto bottom and 1-inch up sides of prepared pan. Place on 17x12inch rimmed baking pan; bake 8 minutes or until firm. Remove spring form pan from baking pan; let cool. Fill baking pan in oven halfway with water; close oven
- Prepare filling; in large bowl, with mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese 4 minutes or just until smooth; scrape down sides of bowl with rubber spatula. Add sugar and beat 2 minutes or until combined; scrape bowl. Add pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla extract, cinnamon and salt-beat on medium-low speed 1 minute or until combined. Add sour cream and beat 2 minutes or until combined; scrape bowl. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating 30 seconds after each addition; scrape bowl. Add 1 cup cream; beat on low speed 1 minute or until combined.
- In a small saucepot, heat remaining 1/3 cup cream over medium heat 1 minute or until tiny bubbles appear around sides of pan and cream steams but is not boiling (about 185);remove from heat and add chocolate. Let stand 2 minutes; whisk until combined. Stir 1 cup pumpkin mixture into chocolate mixture until well combined.
- Pour remaining pumpkin mixture into Crust. Using a tablespoon, drop heaping dollops of pumpkin-chocolate mixture over top of pumpkin mixture (some will sink). With a wooden skewer or toothpick, swirl pumpkin-chocolate mixture into pumpkin mixture to create a marbled effect.
- Carefully place spring form pan in center of water-filled baking pan in oven. Bake 1 hour 20 minutes or until edges of cheesecake are set and center jiggles, rotating cheesecake halfway through bake time.
- Remove foil from pan; cool on wire rack 1 hour, then refrigerate 3 hours or until cold. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Run small, sharp knife around edges of cheesecake to loosen; remove from outer ring of pan. Cut cheesecake into slices to serve
