Turtle Cheesecake

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This is the recipe that won me the Le Gourmet Depot Throwdown...

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Ingredients

  • Crust
  • 12 Oreo cookies, crushed
  • ¼ cup butter, melted
  • Filling
  • 24 oz cream cheese
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 2 t. vanilla
  • 1 t. lime juice
  • 6 oz chocolate, melted
  • Topping
  • 1 cup mini chocolate chips
  • ½ cup chopped pecans
  • ¼ cup chocolate syrup
  • ¼ cup caramel syrup

Preparation

Step 1

Mix crust ingredients and press into the bottom of a spring form pan.

Cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar and mix well. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add sour cream and mix well. Add vanilla and lime juice and mix. Pour all but one cup of batter into the pan. Mix the remaining cup of batter with the melted chocolate. Drop tablespoons of chocolate mixture on top of the batter. Use a butter knife and swirl chocolate into the white batter to create a swirl look.

Bake at 350ºF for 1 hour 15 minutes. Turn off oven and open door for a minute to let hot air out. Then leave in the oven for 45 minutes longer. Let cool completely and then store in refrigerator a minimum of 4 hours or overnight.

Once cool, top with pecans and mini chips. Then drizzle with sauces and serve,