Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 18 cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies, finely crushed
• 2 tablespoons margarine, melted
• 32 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips (this 6 ozs of chocolate chips should be melted and cooled slightly)
• 1/3 cup raspberry preserves, strained
• 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/4 cup whipping cream

Recipe

• 1 combine crumbs and margarine; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan.
• 2 combine 24 ozs of cream cheese and sugar, mixing at medium speed on electric mixer until well blended.
• 3 add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 4 blend in sour cream and vanilla; pour over crust.
• 5 combine remaining 8 ozs cream cheese and melted chocolate, mixing at medium speed on electric mixer until well blended.
• 6 add red raspberry preserves; mix well.
• 7 drop rounded measuring tablespoonfuls of chocolate cream cheese batter over plain cream cheese batter, do not swirl.
• 8 bake at 325°f for 1 hour and 25 minutes.
• 9 loosen cake from rim of pan; cool before removing rim of pan.
• 10 melt chocolate pieces and whipping cream over low heat stirring until smooth.
• 11 spread over cheesecake.
• 12 chill.
• 13 garnish with additional whipping cream, whipped, raspberries and fresh mint leaves, if desired.