Shelly's Recipe

Cheesecake Swirl Bars

Category: Bars

55 vanilla wafers, crushed
6 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans, toasted
16 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons rum extract
2 large eggs
1/4 cup refrigerated eggnog
1/2 cup white chocolate morsels, melted
1/2 cup double chocolate morsels, melted, or regular semisweet morsels

Combine first 3 ingredients in a large bowl, stirring until blended. Press crumb mixture into bottom of a lightly greased 8 or 9 inch square pan. Bake at 350 for 8 minutes. Cool.

Beat cream cheese, sugar, and rum extract until smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended. Pour 1 1/2 cups cream cheese batter evenly over baked crust.

Stir eggnog into remaining batter. Divide batter in half; stir melted white chocolate into 1 portion. Spoon evenly over cream cheese batter. Stir melted semisweet chocolate into remaining batter. Drop spoonfuls of chocolate batter evenly over white chocolate layer; gently swirl batters with a knife.

Bake at 350 for 30 to 33 minutes or until almost set. Cool completely on a wire rack. Cover and chill at least 1 hour before serving. Cut into bars.