Decadent Marble Cheesecake

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 3/4 cup chocolate graham cracker, crushed
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate morsel
• 32 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 grease the bottom and sides of a 8 x 3-inch springform pan.
• 3 for the crust, mix the chocolate graham cracker crumbs with the melted butter and cinnamon.
• 4 press crust mixture into the bottom of the pan.
• 5 bake crust only for 7 minutes in the oven. remove promptly when finished.
• 6 while crust is baking, melt chocolate morsels in a double boiler. set aside.
• 7 with an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth and creamy. add the sugar, eggs and vanilla. do not overmix.
• 8 pour half of the filling into a separate mixing bowl. add the chocolate into one of the bowls.
• 9 alternately, pour and spread the plain and chocolate batters into the pan, swirling with a knife. repeat until both batters are used up.
• 10 place the cake pan into a larger baking pan filled with hot water to come 1 1/2 inches up the sides of the cake pan.
• 11 bake until top of the cake is golden, about 1 1/2 hours. it will rise during baking but will sink slightly later.
• 12 let cool in pan on rack.
• 13 cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
• 14 to unmold, run a knife along sides of pan and then remove rim.