CHOCOLATE ORANGE CHEESECAKE

      Title: CHOCOLATE ORANGE CHEESECAKE
  Categories: Cheesecakes, Chocolate
       Yield: 1 Servings
  
            Crust-----
       1 c  Chocolate wafer cookies --
            Crumbled
     1/4 ts Ground cinnamon
       3 tb Butter or margarine --
            Melted
            Filling-----
      32 oz Cream cheese -- softened
     3/4 c  Sugar
       4    Eggs
     1/2 c  Sour cream
       1 ts Vanilla
       1 c  Semisweet chocolate chips
       2 tb Orange-flavored liqueur
     1/2 ts Orange peel -- grated
  
   Heat oven to 325 F.
   
   Mix crumbs, cinnamon, and butter. Press onto bottom of 9-inch
   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.
   
   (*)  I've just recently found Oreo Cookie crumbs in a box. A great
   time saver for the lazy.
   
   Janet Morrissey "Mostly Harmless" morrissey@stsci.edu
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