Recipe - Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake

1 One half pack GRAHAM CRACKERS, crushed
5 tablespoon BUTTER, melted
1/3 cup SUGAR
Mix and pat into a 10"
springform pan.
32 ounce CREAM CHEESE (good quality),
taken out of
Package and warmed in
microwave for 2
Minutes on high
1 cup SUGAR
5 Jumbo EGGS, shelled and
placed in bowl then
Warmed in microwave for 25
seconds
One fourth cup CORNSTARCH
1 teaspoon VANILLA
One half cup WHIPPING CREAM
8 REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER CUPS,
chopped into

** **

mediumsize pieces ** Cream the cheese until light. Add sugar and beat some
more. Add eggs one at a time and beat after each. Mix in cream, vanilla and
cornstarch. Stir in the candy.

Pour into crust and bake at 350degrees for 1 hour or so until outside edge
is firm and middle is still soft. (Keep a pan of water in the bottom of the
oven as the cake is baking to keep the humidity high and keep the cake from
cracking.

When the cake comes out of the oven run a knife around the edge.

Cool for several hours then top with more chopped Reese's and drizzle with
melted chocolate.

Optional Add 1 cup chopped peanuts to the crust or even add One half cup peanut
butter to the cake (after the eggs and before the cream).