Shelly's Recipe

CHOCOLATE SNICKERS CHEESECAKE

Category: Cheesecake

1 cup chocolate chips
24 chocolate wafer cookies, finely ground
1/4 cup melted butter
2 tbsp dry roasted peanuts, chopped
1 tbsp + 3/4 cup sugar, divided
3 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese, room temperature
3 tbsp flour
3 eggs
2 egg yolks
1 cup sour cream, divided (1/4 cup// 3/4 cup)
6 Snickers Bars, 2-oz. each, cut crosswise, 1/4 inch thick

Preheat oven to 350. Coat 9 inch springform pan with cooking spray. Wrap outside of pan with foil. In a bowl set over a pot of hot water, melt chocolate. Keep warm. Combine next 3 ingredients with 1 tbsp sugar. Press into bottom and 12 inch up the sides of pan. Refrigerate 10 minutes. Bake 5 minutes. Cool.

Beat cream cheese until fluffy. Beat in flour and remaining sugar until combined. Beat in eggs and yolks, 1 at a time.

Pour half of the filling into another bowl. Beat 1/4 cup sour cream and reserved chocolate into batter in bowl.

Beat remaining sour cream into remaining batter. Pour white batter into crust. Arrange 2/3 of the Snickers slices over top. Pour chocolate batter over. Place in a baking pan on oven rack. Fill baking pan with water. Bake 55 minutes. Turn oven off and let stand in oven for 1 hour. Remove from water. Remove foil. Cool completely in refrigerator 3 hours or overnight. Top with remaining Snickers.