Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake
- Crust
- 1 1/2 cups Oreo cookie crumbs, including the filling (about 22 cookies)
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- Filling
- 2 (8 ounce) pkges. cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 5 eggs, room temperature
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup semisweet mini chocolate chips
- chocolate fudge topping
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3/4 cup melted chocolate chips
- 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
- Mix crumbs and butter and put crumb mixture onto bottom of greased 9 inch spring form pan. Bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees, and cool crust on a wire rack.
- In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and peanut butter. Add eggs, one at a time, beating on low speed after each addition.
- Add sour cream and vanilla. Add the mini chocolate chips.
- Pour cheesecake mixture into prepared cookie crust.
- Put cheesecake in 350 degree oven on middle oven rack.
- Position a baking pan filled halfway with hot water on lower rack.
- Bake 15 minutes., then lower oven temperature to 300 degrees and bake 70 minutes.
- Turn oven off. Let cake stand in oven, with door ajar, 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool on wire rack.
- In a medium bowl, combine sour cream, melted chocolate chips, and powdered sugar for topping.
- Spread chocolate topping over cooled cheesecake.
- Let chocolate topping cool and set. Cool cheesecake completely on a wire rack.
- Refrigerate .12-24 hours.
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cheesecake-331962 (may not work)