Recipe - Chocolate Covered White Chocolate Cheesecake

1 One half cup Chocolate wafer cookies
Crumbled
3 tablespoon Butter melted
24 ounce Cream cheese softened
One half cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
3 Eggs
One half pound White chocolate melted
1 cup Heavy cream
2 tablespoon Butter
2 tablespoon Granulated sugar
12 ounce Semisweet chocolate
Broken into small pi

Heat oven to 350F. Mix crumbs and butter and press onto bottom of 9inch
springform pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla
until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each
addition. Blend in melted white chocolate and pour over crust. Bake 40
minutes, turn off oven and let cake cool inside the oven as it cools down.
Loosen cake from rim of pan and cool completely. Chill for at least 4
hours. Remove rim. Heat heavy cream, butter, and sugar in a heavy saucepan
over mediumhigh heat. Stir to disolve sugar crystals and then bring to a
boil. Put choclate pieces into a stainless steel bowl and pour boiling
cream mixute over it and let stand for a few minutes. Stir until smooth and
cool. Cover the sides and top of cheesecake with the ganache, smooth, and
chill at least 2 hours to set.

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