Chocolate Truffle Cheesecake

Total Time: 5 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 5 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 1/2 cups crumbled chocolate sandwich style cookies (18 cookies if you can't find the crumbs)
• 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine, melted
• 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 (12 ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips (2 cups)
• 1/4 cup coffee-flavored liqueur (optional) or 1/4 cup amaretto (optional)
• 4 eggs, at room temperature

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 300°f.
• 2 mix crushed cookies and butter; press firmly onto bottom of a 9-inch springform pan.
• 3 beat cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. add melted chocolate and liqueur; mix well. add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each addition just until blended. pour over crust.
• 4 bake 1 hour 5 minutes to 1 hour 10 minutes or until center is almost set. run knife or metal spatula around rim of pan to loosen cake; return cake to oven to cool slowly. cool before removing rim of pan. refrigerate 4 hours or overnight. store leftover cheesecake in refrigerator.