Chocolate Royale Cheesecake

• 18 each OREO cookies -- finely crushed
• 2 tablespoons butter or margarine -- melted
• 4 packages (8 oz ea) cream cheese -- softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 8 oz semisweet baking chocolate -- melted, slightly cooled
• 1/4 cup hazelnut liqueur
• 4 eggs
• Powdered sugar
• Mixed berries (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 325*F.
2. Mix cookie crumbs and butter; press into bottom of 9-inch spring-form pan. Bake 10 minutes.
3. Beat cream cheese, sugar, flour, and vanilla with electric mixer until well blended. Add chocolate, liqueur, and eggs; mix just until blended.
4. Pour over crust.
5. Bake for 55-60 minutes or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of plan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim of pan.
6. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
7. At serving, garnish with sifted powdered sugar and mixed berries, if desired.
8. If using a dark non-stick spring-form pan: Prepare as directed, reducing oven temperature to 300*F and increasing cheesecake baking time to 60-65
9. minutes until center is almost set.

oreo cookies, butter, cream cheese, vanilla, sugar, flour, cooled, hazelnut liqueur, eggs, powdered sugar, mixed berries

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/chocolate-royale-cheesecake-52857851 (may not work)