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Serving Size : 8 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cheesecakes
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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6 c Cream cheese
1/3 c Heavy cream
2 c Sugar
5 Eggs
1 Lemon -- zest of
1 Orange -- zest of
1 ds Salt
1 c Canned pumpkin -- mixed with:
1/2 c Sugar
1/2 c Graham wafer crumbs
Ganache:
8 oz Bittersweet chocolate -- chopped
1/2 c Heavy cream
Cream 2 cups sugar and cream cheese until smooth. Add heavy cream
and mix well. Add minced orange and lemon zest and salt. Grease a
10" springform pan and coat with layer of graham wafer crumbs.
Pour cheesecake mixture into prepared pan and swirl with canned
pumpkin. Set in pan of water and bake in 300°F oven for 1 hour.
Cool cooked cheesecake and chill.
Meanwhile, bring cream to a boil and add chopped chocolate. Stir
until chocolate is melted. Spread over cooled cheesecake.
To make a spider web design, make a thin white icing (powdered
sugar and egg white mixed to the consistency of heavy cream) and,
starting at center of cheesecake, pipe a continuous spiral to the
outer edge of the cake. Practice on the counter first. Pull a knife
point from the center out through the white lines, dividing the
cake into 6ths. Then reverse the procedure between the lines,
pulling the knife from the outer edge to the center of the cake.
