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Chocolate Marble Cheesecake

Source of Recipe

Chefal


List of Ingredients

* Crumb-nut Cheesecake Crust
3 packages Softened Cream Cheese [8 oz]
3/4 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Sour Cream
2 teaspoons Vanilla
3 ea Eggs
3 teaspoons Flour
1/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa
1/4 cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Vegetable Oil
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla



Recipe

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Place sour cream and 2 teaspoons vanilla in large mixer bowl; beat on medium speed until smooth.
Add flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, blending well. Add eggs; beat well. In a small bowl, combine cocoa and 1/4 cup sugar. Add oil, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and 1-1/2 cups of the cream cheese mixture; mix until well blended.

Aternately spoon plain and chocolate mixtures into prepared crust, ending with dollops of the chocolate on top; gently swirl with knife or spatula for a marbled effect.

Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes; without opening oven door, lower temperature to 250 degrees and continue cooking for 30 minutes more. Without opening
oven door, turn off heat and let cheesecake sit in oven for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and loosen sides with knife.

Let cool and chill overnight.

OTIONAL: Chocolate Whipped Cream Swirls on outer edges - jimmies pressed in the crust.

*Graham Cracker Crumb Nut Cheesecake Crust


1 1/2 cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
1/3 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Melted Butter
1/2 cup finely chopped walnut

Press all ingredients into springform pan.
Place pan on cookie sheet
[it may exude butter, when baked!]
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
Cool ----- then fill.