BAILEYS CHOCOLATE CHIP CHEESECAKE

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Ingredients:

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Crust:

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2 cups    graham cracker crumbs

1/4 cup   sugar

6 T       (3/4 stick) butter, melted

 

Filling:

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2 1/4 lbs    cream cheese, room temperature

1 2/3 cups   sugar

5            eggs, room temperature

1 cup        Baileys Irish Cream

1 T.         vanilla extract

1 cup        semisweet chocolate chips

 

Coffee Cream:

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1 cup        chilled whipping cream

2 T.         sugar

1 t.         instant coffee powder

chocolate curls

 

Instructions:

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For crust: Preheat oven to 325F.  Coat 9" diameter springform pan with

nonstick vegetable oil spray.  Combine crumbs and sugar in pan.  Stir in

butter.  Press mixture into bottom and 1" up sides of pan.  Bake until

light brown, about 7 minutes.  Maintain oven temperature at 325F.

 

For filling: Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth.

Gradually mix in sugar.  Beat eggs in one at a time.  Blend in Baileys

and vanilla.

 

Sprinkle half of chocolate chips over crust.  Spoon in filling.

Sprinkle with remaining chocolate chips.  Bake cake until puffed,

springy in center and golden brown, about 1 hour 20 minutes.  Cool cake

completely.

 

For cream: Beat cream, sugar, and coffee powder until peaks form.

Spread mixture over cooled cake.

 

Garnish cake with chocolate curls.

 

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From: thull@skidmore.edu (Terri Hull)