Monday, December 17, 2007

White Chocolate Candy Cane Cheesecake

This is my absolute favorite cheesecake in the world, one that everyone always begs me to bring to functions, and I GLADLY take it along. =)

Enjoy!!!

Ingredients:

1 cup graham cracker crumbs
3/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons sugar, divided
3 tablespoons butter, melted
3 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
3 eggs
4 squares Baker's white chocolate, melted
1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract

Preheat oven to 325 degrees if using a silver 9-inch Springform pan (or 300 degrees is using a non-stick 9-inch Springform pan).

Mix graham cracker crumbs, 3 tbsp of the sugar, and melted butter; pat firmly onto the bottom of pan. Bake at 325 for 10 minutes.

Beat cream cheese and remaining 3/4 cup sugar in large bowl with electric mixer at medium speed until well-blended. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing on low speed just until blended.

Stir in melted chocolate and the extract. Pour over crust.

Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until center is almost set. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.

4 comments:

s.w. vaughn said...

Oooh, yay! Thank you!

This looks much easier than I'd dared to hope. Maybe I won't ruin it completely. :-)

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Anonymous said...

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