Recipe - Orange-Chocolate Cheesecake

Crust
1 cup Chocolate Wafer Crumbs *
See note
One fourth teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
3 tablespoon Butter Or Margarine
Melted
Filling
32 ounce Cream Cheese softened
Three fourths cup Sugar
4 Eggs
One half cup Sour Cream
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips
2 tablespoon Orange Liqueur
One half teaspoon Grated Orange Peel

* I've just recently found Oreo Cookie crumbs in a box. A great time saver
for the lazy.

Heat oven to 325 F.

Mix crumbs, cinnamon, and butter. Press onto bottom of 9inch springform
pan.

Bake 10 minutes.

Increase oven temperature to 350 F.

Beat cream cheese and sugar at medium speed with electric mixer until well
blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend
in sour cream and vanilla.

Separate batter into 2 equal parts. Blend chocolate into one part. Blend
liqueur and peel into remaining part. Pour chocolate batter over crust.
Bake 30 minutes.

Reduce oven temperatue to 325 F.

Spoon remaining batter over chocolate layer. Continue baking another 30
minutes. Turn off oven and prop open oven door; remove cheesecake when oven
has cooled. Loosen cake from rim of pan.

I think cheesecake in general is best when chilled over night, but it is
not necessary.

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From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini