Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

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

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 25 -28 chocolate chip cookies
• 2 1/2 tablespoons sugar
• 5 tablespoons butter, melted
• 5 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1 teaspoon grated orange rind
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 5 eggs
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, coarsley chopped
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 crush cookies into fine crumbs.
• 2 reserve 1 tablespoons for garnish.
• 3 add sugar and butter to crumbs and mix well.
• 4 grease bottom and sides of 13" x 9" pan.
• 5 press crumb mixture into bottom of pan and halfway up sides.
• 6 place in freezer while preparing cheese filling.
• 7 preheat oven to 450.
• 8 place cream cheese in a large bowl.
• 9 beat with electric mixer until smooth.
• 10 add sugar, flour, orange rind, and vanilla.
• 11 beat just enough to blend ingredients.
• 12 blend in eggs one at a time and egg yolks the same way. (be careful not to overbeat. this can cause cracking of the top.).
• 13 blend in sour cream.
• 14 fold chocolate chips into cream cheese mixture.
• 15 pour into crust.
• 16 bake for 10 minutes at 450.
• 17 reduce oven temperature to 250.
• 18 bake for 40 minutes.
• 19 remove cake from oven, then reset oven temperature to 450.
• 20 now make topping mixture: blend together sour cream, sugar, and vanilla.
• 21 when oven has reheated to 450, spread sour cream evenly on top of baked cheesecake. topping will hide any cracks.
• 22 bake for 8 minutes.
• 23 let cake cool.
• 24 refrigerate overnight or for at least 4 hours.
• 25 garnish top with reserved cookie crumbs.