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Pumpkin: Harrah's Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

Source of Recipe

www.idunno4recipes.com


List of Ingredients

CRUST:
butter, softened
graham cracker crumbs

FILLING:
6 cups cream cheese
1/3 cup heavy cream
2 cups sugar
5 eggs
grated rind of 1 lemon and 1 orange
1 dash salt
1 cup canned pumpkin + 1/2c. sugar

GARNISH:
8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup heavy cream


Recipe

Butter a 10-inch spring-form or deep cake pan and coat with layer of graham cracker crumbs. Cream sugar and cream cheese until smooth. Add heavy cream and mix well. Add grated orange and lemon rind and salt. Pour cheesecake mixture into prepared pan and swirl in canned pumpkin. Set in pan of water and bake in 300ºF 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 egg white mixed to the consistency of heavy 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.