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Dessert Sponge Cake Cake Pie Sweet

Turtle Pecan Cheesecake

Ingredients & Directions


-ROSE RAY DSJN00A-
8 oz Chocolate cookies; or
– vanilla wafers
1/4 c Butter; melted
20 oz Cream cheese; softened
1 c Sugar
1 1/2 tb Flour; all purpose
1/4 ts Salt
1 ts Vanilla extract
3 Eggs
2 tb Whipping cream

-CARAMEL TOPPING-
1/2 pk Caramels; 14-oz package
1/3 c Whipping cream

CHOCOLATE TOPPING
4 oz German sweet chocolate
1 ts Butter
2 tb Whipping cream
1 c Pecans; toasted, chopped

Preheat oven to 450~. Place cookies in resealable plastic bag.
Squeeze out excess air; seal bag tightly. Roll over cookies with
rolling pin until finely crushed. Combine cookie crumbs and butter in
medium bowl; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan. Beat cream
cheese in large bowl until creamy. Add sugar, flour, salt and
vanilla; mix well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each
addition. Blend in cream. Pour over crust. Bake 10 minutes.
Reduce oven temperature to 200~. Continue baking cheesecake 35-40
minutes or until set. Loosen cake from rim of pan; cool before
removing rim of pan. Prepare Caramel Topping and Chocolate Topping.
Drizzle over cheesecake. Refrigerate cheesecake. Sprinkle with pecans
just before serving.
Caramel Topping. Combine ingredients in small saucepan; stir over
low heat until smooth.
Chocolate Topping. Combine ingredients in small saucepan; stir
over low heat until smooth.

Decadent Cheesecakes from Cooking Class Magazine, March 1993.

Yields
1 Servings