Chocolate Ganache Cheesecake Recipe Steve O

• 200 g Mr. Christie's Chocolate Wafers (or something similar)
• 1 stick melted butter
• 2 8 oz blocks cream cheese - softened to roomish temperature
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 8 oz semi sweet chocolate
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 tbsp butter

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
2. For the base: Pulverize/crumble your cookies into a nice even consistency.
3. Mix your cookie crumbs with a stick of melted butter until the crumbs are evenly coated.
4. Coat the bottom and sides of an 8" spring form pan with nonstick cooking spray or rub it down with butter.
5. Pour the crumbs into the pan and press the crumbs down into the base and approximately 1/3 of the way the sides.
6. Chill until youre ready to use.
7. For the cream cheese: In a large bowl, add your cream cheese and beat (with an electric mixer, ideally) on low speed for about a minute or so until its relatively smooth.
8. Add in your eggs one at a time.
9. Add sugar.
10. Add sour cream.
11. Add vanilla extract.
12. Continue beating until everything is incorporated.
13. For the chocolate ganache: heat up heavy cream until simmering.
14. Pour into bowl over top the chocolate and butter.
15. Stir until a good and somewhat thick consistency is formed.
16. Stir ganache into cream cheese mixture but do not over stir as we want it to be a marble-type aesthetic... a nice swirl should do.
17. Pour all of this into your spring form dish
18. Put into over for 45-60 mins until firm but still jiggly in the middle.
19. Cool at room temp and allow to chill in the fridge for a day

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Taken from www.chowhound.com/recipes/chocolate-ganache-cheesecake-29021 (may not work)