Cookie Dough Cheesecake - Copycat/olive Garden

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons margarine
• 2 3/4 cups chocolate cookie crumbs
• 4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 (1 lb) package refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
• 2 ounces chocolate chips
• 1 pint heavy whipping cream, whipped
• chocolate chips
• chopped walnuts

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325.
• 2 crust:.
• 3 generously grease the bottom and sides of a 10" spring form pan.
• 4 combine the margarine with the chocolate cookie crumbs.
• 5 press onto the bottom and sides of the pan.
• 6 filling:.
• 7 using an electric mixer on high speed, combine cream cheese, sugar, eggs and flour and mix until smooth.
• 8 add vanilla and sour cream and mix just until blended.
• 9 pour 1/2 of the batter into prepared crust. cut cookie dough into golf ball sized chunks and drop into batter.
• 10 sprinkle in chocolate chips.
• 11 pour over remaining batter.
• 12 bake for 60 minutes.
• 13 turn off the oven and open the door to the broil position.
• 14 allow cake to remain in the oven 30 more minutes.
• 15 refrigerate until ready to serve. to serve, remove the sides of the pan and top with fresh whipped cream.
• 16 sprinkle with additional chocolate chips and chopped walnuts.