Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 1/2 cups oreo cookie crumbs, including the filling (about 22 cookies)
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
• 2 (8 ounce) pkges. cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 5 eggs, room temperature
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup semisweet mini chocolate chips
• chocolate fudge topping
• 1 cup sour cream
• 3/4 cup melted chocolate chips
• 3 tablespoons powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 mix crumbs and butter and put crumb mixture onto bottom of greased 9 inch spring form pan. bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees, and cool crust on a wire rack.
• 2 in a large bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and peanut butter. add eggs, one at a time, beating on low speed after each addition.
• 3 add sour cream and vanilla. add the mini chocolate chips.
• 4 pour cheesecake mixture into prepared cookie crust.
• 5 put cheesecake in 350 degree oven on middle oven rack.
• 6 position a baking pan filled halfway with hot water on lower rack.
• 7 bake 15 minutes., then lower oven temperature to 300 degrees and bake 70 minutes.
• 8 turn oven off. let cake stand in oven, with door ajar, 30 minutes.
• 9 remove from oven and let cool on wire rack.
• 10 in a medium bowl, combine sour cream, melted chocolate chips, and powdered sugar for topping.
• 11 spread chocolate topping over cooled cheesecake.
• 12 let chocolate topping cool and set. cool cheesecake completely on a wire rack.
• 13 refrigerate .12-24 hours.