Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake That Will Knock Your Sock Off
By: Ashlee
Published: Friday, September 24, 2010 - 12:06pm

Ingredients




Crust
2 cups graham cracker crumbs (store bought or you can make them yourself in your food processor)
 brown sugar
2/3 cup butter melted
Chocolate Layer:
6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
6 tablespoons of butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Peanut Butter Layer:
3 8s oz. packages of cream cheese
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup peanut butter (I have never tried to use the all natural peanut butter but I hav
3 large eggs
1 egg yolk
 cup heavy whipping cream
Chocolate Ganache Topping
3 ounces semi sweet chocolate
2 tablespoons heavy cream

Preparation

1 Crust 2 In a small bowl combine crumbs and brown sugar. Add butter and press into spring form pan. 3 Bake 6 minutes at 300 degrees 4 Let cool on wire wrack. 5 Chocolate Layer 6 In medium bowl, combine chocolate and butter. Melt by microwaving in 30 second intervals. (1 1/2 minutes total) 7 Whisk in sugar, flour, and eggs. 8 Pour into crust and bake on 300 for 15 minutes. 9 Let cool on wire wrack. 10 Peanut Butter Layer: 11 In large bowl (I use my kitchenaid mixer) beat cream cheese and sugar. 12 Beat in peanut butter 13 Beat in eggs and yolk one at a time. 14 Stir in cream. 15 Pour over cooled chocolate layer. 16 Bake on 300 for 1 hour 15 minutes. When finished baking run knife around edges to prevent sticking. 17 Cool Completely! 18 Chocolate Ganache Topping 19 Microwave chocolate and cream in 30 second intervals until melted. 20 Pour over completely cooled cake 21 Refrigerate cake at least 8 hours to set.