Shelly's Recipe

CHOCOLATE-COFFEE CHEESECAKE WITH MOCHA SAUCE

Category: Cheesecake

Top each serving with a dollop of whipped cream, fresh raspberries, and fresh mint sprigs, if desired.

3 cups crushed chocolate graham crackers (about 20 sheets)
1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
Cooking Spray
4 (8-oz) pkg Cream Cheese, softened
1 cup DOMINO Pkg Sugar
1/4 cup coffee liqueur
1 tsp instant coffee granules
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 large eggs
4 (1-oz) bittersweet baking chocolate squares
Mocha Sauce

Stir together crushed graham crackers and butter; press mixture into bottom and up sides of a 9-inch springform pan coated with cooking spray.
Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Reduce oven temperature to 325.

Beat cream cheese and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended. Add liqueur, coffee granules, and vanilla, beating at low speed until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until yellow disappears after each addition.

Remove and reserve 1 cup cream cheese mixture. Pour remaining batter into prepared crust.

Microwave chocolate squares in a medium-size glass bowl 1 minute or until melted, stirring after 30 seconds; let cool slightly. Stir reserved 1 cup cream cheese mixture into melted chocolate, blending well. Spoon chocolate mixture in lines on top of batter in pan; gently swirl with a knife.

Bake at 325 for 1 hour or until almost set. Turn oven off. Let cheesecake stand in oven, with door closed, 30 minutes. Remove cheesecake from oven, and gently run a knife around outer edge of cheesecake to loosen from sides of pan. (Do not remove sides of pan.) Cool on a wire rack. Cover and chill at least 4 hours. Remove sides of springform pan. Serve with Mocha Sauce.