Chocolate-Marbled Pumpkin Cheesecake
By: Helen Pitlick
Published: Friday, December 10, 2010 - 1:02am

Ingredients




2 (8-oz) packages cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup cooked or canned pumpkin
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 dash cloves
1 dash nutmeg
2 eggs
1 graham cracker crust
 cup mini-semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preparation

1 Sprinkle some of the chocolate morsels on the bottom of the pie crust (wide coverage, but not too many). Melt the rest of the chocolate in microwave. 2 Mix cream cheese, pumpkin, sugar, vanilla and spices until well blended. Add eggs and mix well. 3 Remove 1/3 cup of mixture and mix with melted chocolate. Pour rest of cheese mixture into crust. Spoon chocolate mixture on top and swirl with a table knife or spoon. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until center is almost set. 4 Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight.

About


Garnish with whipped cream and chopped pecans OR chocolate shavings.