CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE

      Title: CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE
  Categories: Cheesecakes, Lauri
       Yield: 8 Servings
  
       6 c  Cream cheese
     1/3 c  Heavy cream
       2 c  Sugar
       5    Eggs
            Rind from 1 lemon
            Rind from 1 orange
       1 ds Salt
       1 c  Canned pumpkin*
     1/2 c  Graham wafer crumbs
 
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       8 oz Bittersweet choc.,chopped
     1/2 c  Heavy cream
  
   *  mix pumpkin with 1/2 cup sugar Cream sugar and cream cheese until
   smooth.  Add heavy cream and mix well. Add minced orange and lemon
   rinds and salt. Grease a 10" springform apn and coat with layer of
   graham wafer crumbs.  Pour cheesecake mixture into prepared apn and
   swirl with canned pumpkin.  Set in pan of water and bake in 300F oven
   for an hour. Cool cooked cheesecake and chill.  Meanwhile, bring
   cream to a boil and add chopped chocolate.  Stir until chocolate is
   melted. Spread over cooled cheesecake. To make a spider web design,
   make a thin white icing (powdered sugar and eggwhite mixed to the
   consistency of ehavy cream) and, starting at center of cheesecake,
   pipe a continuous spiral to the outer edge of the cake (practice on
   the counter first). Pull a knife point from the center out through
   the white lines, dividing the cake into sixths. Then reverse the
   procedure between the lines, pulling the knife from the outer edge to
   the center of the cake. Refrigerate until served.
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