Chocolate-Mint Cheesecake
- 2 cups chocolate wafer crumbs
- 14 cup sugar
- 14 cup butter or 14 cup margarine, melted
- 4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 23 cups sugar
- 5 eggs
- 13 cup green creme de menthe
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 12 cup butter or 12 cup margarine
- 34 cup cocoa
- 2 34 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 12 cup milk
- 1 12 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Crust:
- Combine first 3 ingredients.
- Firmly press mixture evenly over bottom and 2" up sides of a 10" spring-form pan.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 7 minutes and cool.
- Filling:.
- Beat cream cheese at a high speed until light and fluffy.
- Gradually add 1 2/3 cups sugar, beating well.
- Add eggs, beating until just combined.
- Stir in creme de menthe and 1 tablespoon vanilla.
- Pour on top of cooled crust.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- NOTE: Center may be soft but will firm when chilled.
- Let cool to room temperature on a wire rack.
- Icing:.
- Melt 1/2 cup of butter or margarine in samll saucepan.
- Add cocoa and stir till smooth.
- Remove from heat and cool.
- Pour chocolate mixture in to small bowl.
- Gradually add powdered sugar, alternately with milk, beating at medium speed, till smooth.
- Stir in 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla.
- Spread over top of cheesecake.
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-mint-cheesecake-321542 (may not work)