Mint, chocolate, cheesecake. Three fantastic flavors that come together in one awesome dessert!
Chocolate Grasshopper Cheesecake
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 7 hr 35 min
- Servings 16
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
Crust
- 30 fudge mint cookies, crushed (about 1 3/4 cups)
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
Filling
- 4 oz semisweet baking chocolate
- 3 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1/3 cup green crème de menthe liqueur*
Topping and Garnish, if desired
- Sweetened whipped cream
- Crème de menthe thin rectangular candies for garnish, unwrapped, cut in half diagonally
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 300°F. Wrap foil around bottom and side of ungreased 9-inch springform pan. In large bowl, mix crust ingredients with fork until crumbly. Press in bottom and 1 inch up side of pan. Bake 12 minutes. Cool 30 minutes.
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Step2In small microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate on High 45 to 60 seconds, stirring once halfway through microwaving, until melted. If necessary, continue to microwave on High in 15-second increments, stirring until smooth. Set aside.
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Step3In large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed, scraping bowl frequently, until smooth and creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until smooth after each addition. Stir in liqueur. Pour filling evenly over crust.
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Step4Drop 8 to 10 tablespoonfuls melted chocolate randomly onto filling, allowing chocolate to sink into filling. With table knife or small spatula, cut through chocolate and filling to swirl for marbled design.
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Step5Bake 1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes or until set 2 inches from edge of pan. Remove from oven; run knife around side of cheesecake to loosen. Return to oven; turn oven off and open door slightly. Cool cheesecake in oven 1 hour. Remove from oven to cooling rack; cool at room temperature 1 hour. Refrigerate 3 hours.
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Step6To serve, remove side of pan. Spoon whipped cream into decorating bag with large star tip; squeeze bag to pipe cream around top edge of cheesecake. Garnish with candies.
Nutrition
340
Calories
23g
Total Fat
6g
Protein
28g
Total Carbohydrate
23g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 340
- Calories from Fat
- 210
- Total Fat
- 23g
- 36%
- Saturated Fat
- 15g
- 75%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 105mg
- 35%
- Sodium
- 190mg
- 8%
- Potassium
- 110mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 28g
- 9%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 23g
- Protein
- 6g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 15%
- 15%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 1/2 High-Fat Meat; 3 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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