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Double Chocolate-Pumpkin Cheesecake




Source of Recipe


Woman's Day






List of Ingredients



• CRUST:
  
• 1 1/2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs
  
• 1/2 stick (4 Tbsp) butter, melted
  
• FILLING:
  
• 3 bricks (8 oz each) 1/3 less fat cream cheese, softened
  
• 1 cup sugar
  
• 2 Tbsp cornstarch
  
• 3 large eggs
  
• 1/2 cup reduced fat sour cream
  
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
  
• 1 cup (6 oz) milk chocolate chips, melted and cooled
  
• 1 cup canned 100% pure pumpkin
  
• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  
• 1 cup (6 oz) semisweet chocolate chips, melted and cooled
  
• CHOCOLATE GLAZE:
  
• 3 oz bittersweet baking chcolate
  
• 2 Tbsp stick butter
  
• 1 Tbsp light corn syrup
  






Instructions



1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Coat an 8-inch springform pan with nonstick cooking spray. Have ready a roasting pan larger than springform pan.
   
2. Crust: Put crumbs n a small bowl; stir in buter until evenly moistened. Press firmly over bottom of pan. Bake 8 to 10 minutes until set. Cool on rack. Wrap outside of pan with heavy duty foil. Reduce oven temperature to 300 degrees.
   
3. Filling: Beat cream cheese, sugar and cornstarch in large bowl with mixer on medium speed until smooth, scraping sides of bowl several times with a rubber spatula. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, just until blended. Beat in sour cream and vanilla to combine. Divide batter evenly between 3 medium bowls. Stir melted milk chocolate into 1 bowl; pour into crust in even layer. Whisk pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice into another bowl. Carefully spoon over chocolate layer to cover, then gently smooth into even layer with an offset spatula (take care batters dont run together). Stir semisweet chocolate into remaining batter. Carefully spoon over pumpkin layer; spread carefully as above.
   
4. Set springform pan in center of roasting pan. Place roasting pan in oven rack and add boiling water to come halfway up sides of springform pan.
   
5. Bake 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours unit set, but center jiggles slightly when shaken.
   
6. Turn off oven (leave door closed); let cake cool in oven 1 hour (if cake hasn't pulled away from sides of pan, carefully run a thin knife around edge of pan to release cake). Remove foil. Cook cake in pan on wire rack. Cover; refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.
   
7. Chocolate Glaze: Stir ingredients in a small saucepan over low heat until chocolate melts and mixture is smooth. Remove from heat; cool slightly.
   
8. Remove pan sides; place cake on serving plate. Spread glaze over top to edge (some may drip down side of cake). Refrigerate until glaze sets.
   






Final Comments


Tip: Cake can be completed up to 1 week ahead. Cover and refrigerate.