Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

* Exported from MasterCook *

CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE

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Serving Size : 8 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cheesecakes

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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6 c Cream cheese
1/3 c Heavy cream
2 c Sugar
5 Eggs
Rind from 1 lemon
Rind from 1 orange
1 d Salt
1 c Canned pumpkin*
1/2 c Graham wafer crumbs
-----GANACH-----
8 oz Bittersweet choc.,chopped
1/2 c Heavy cream

* mix pumpkin with 1/2 cup sugar Cream sugar and
cream cheese until smooth. Add heavy cream and mix
well. Add minced orange and lemon rinds and salt.
Grease a 10" springform apn and coat with layer of
graham wafer crumbs. Pour cheesecake mixture into
prepared apn and swirl with canned pumpkin. Set in
pan of water and bake in 300F oven for an hour. Cool
cooked cheesecake and chill. Meanwhile, bring cream
to a boil and add chopped chocolate. Stir until
chocolate is melted. Spread over cooled cheesecake.
To make a spider web design, make a thin white icing
(powdered sugar and eggwhite mixed to the consistency
of ehavy cream) and, starting at center of cheesecake,
pipe a continuous spiral to the outer edge of the cake
(practice on the counter first). Pull a knife point
from the center out through the white lines, dividing
the cake into sixths. Then reverse the procedure
between the lines, pulling the knife from the outer
edge to the center of the cake. Refrigerate until
served.



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