Irish Cream Cheesecake

Submitted by ratherbeswimmin

"Cheesecake Extraordinaire; posted by request"

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 35mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 12 to 18 slices

ingredients

• Chocolate Cookie Crust

• 11 cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed
• 44.37 ml butter or 44.37 ml margarine, melted

• Irish Cream Filling

• 680.38 g cream cheese
• 177.44 ml sugar
• 36.97 ml unsweetened cocoa powder
• 24.64 ml cornstarch
• 4 eggs
• 1 egg yolk
• 177.44 ml irish cream
• 4.92 ml vanilla extract
• 9.85 ml instant coffee
• 9.85 ml hot water

directions

1. Make the crust: in a bowl, stir the crushed cookies and melted butter together until well combined.
2. Press crumb mixture evenly onto the bottom of a greased 9-inch springform pan.
3. Make the filling: in a big bowl, combine the cream cheese, sugar, cocoa powder, and cornstarch; beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
4. Add eggs and egg yolk one at a time, beating well after each addition.
5. Beat in the Irish cream liqueur and vanilla.
6. Stir together the instant coffee and hot water, stir into cream cheese mixture; pour cream cheese mixture over the crust.
7. Bake in a preheated 350° oven for 15 minutes; decrease temperature to 200° and bake 1 hour and 10 minutes or until the center no longer looks wet or shiny.
8. Remove the cake from the oven and run a knife around the inside edge of the pan.
9. Turn the oven off; return cake to the oven for an additional 30 minutes.
10. Chill, uncovered, overnight.
11. *I always bake cheesecake in a water bath; this method is untried by me, so proceed at your own risk.