CHOCOLATE MARBLE CHEESECAKE
Crust:
1 3/4 cups crushed graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup finely ground walnuts
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
Filling:
2 pounds cream cheese (four 8-oz packages)
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
6 eggs
2 cups half and half
2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
- Preheat oven to 450 °F (230 °C).
- Combine crust ingredients and blend.
- Grease sides of 9" - 10" spring-form pan.
- Press crumbs on bottom and up sides of pan to top.
- Reserve about three tablespoons of crumbs for topping.
- Beat cream cheese and vanilla together until fluffy.
- Gradually beat in sugar.
- Add eggs one at a time stirring until just blended.
- Stir in half and half.
- Gradually stir 3 cups of batter into cooled melted chocolate and blend.
- Pour plain batter into prepared pan.
- Gradually add chocolate mixture using zigzag motion.
- Batter will be very loose.
- Top with reserved crumbs.
- Bake 15 minutes to set batter.
- Reduce heat to 300 °F (150 °C) and bake 70 minutes longer.
- Remove from oven.
- Cool on rack one hour.
- Chill.
- Can be frozen.