Ingredients
The following ingredients have 4 Servings
- 16 oz cream cheese (at room temperature)
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 6 squares Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate melted
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 16.5 oz package of refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough ( I used Pillsbury)
- Hot Fudge/Whipped Cream/Mini Chocolate Chips
Instruction
- Heat the oven to 300°F.
- Line the bottom of a 8 or 9-inch spring-form pan with parchment paper. Grease paper with shortening and sides of pan by applying a little bit of shortening to a paper towel or piece of waxed paper. (You can also use a pastry brush to spread a thin coating of softened shortening.) Press the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough into the bottom of the baking pan. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, using a mixer, beat the cream cheese and sugar together on medium speed until smooth, but don't overbeat.
- Slowly add the eggs and mix until just incorporated.
- Divide the batter into two bowls equally. Adding chocolate to one bowl and pumpkin puree to the other. Beat both the batters gently till they are mixed.
- Pour three-fourths of the pumpkin cheesecake batter over the cookie dough crust.
- Pour the chocolate cheesecake batter on top of the pumpkin cheesecake batter.
- Spoon the remaining pumpkin cheesecake batter on top of the chocolate batter.
- Use a table knife to make a few decorative swirls
- Set cheesecake in pan inside of a larger baking pan and add an inch of water to the larger pan only. (I line my larger pan with foil.)
- Bake 1 hour, or until center is set. Turn off oven, prop open the oven door (not all the way, just slightly), and allow the cake to cool 15 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack and cool completely.
- Pour warmed hot fudge over the edges of the cake and spread with a knife evenly on the sizes or drizzle. Add some whipped cream and more chocolate chips as a garnish and serve.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve or for up to 3 days (or freeze for up to 1 month).
