Recipe 124

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Recipe name and category: Chocolate Cheesecake

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Recipe ingredients and directions:

Crust: 1-1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs

2 tbs sugar

1 tbs brown sugar

½ stick margarine/butter, melted

Mix together and put in the bottom of a greased spring form pan.

Cake: 3 - 8 oz packages cream cheese

4 or 5 eggs, depending on size

1-1/2 cups sugar

1 cup heavy whipping cream

1 tsp lemon rind

½ tsp vanilla

4 – 6 oz baking/semi-sweet chocolate

Melt chocolate in double boiler slowly – Do not burn.

Mix softened cream cheese with sugar, small amounts at a time.

Beat in eggs, one at a time.

Add rest of ingredients.

Pour into pan. Bake at 325° for one hour. Turn off oven, leave cake in oven for 1 additional hour.

Take out cake and cool.

Refrigerate.

May need to adjust baking temperature and time to altitude.

Recipe source: My dad made it up from a couple of other recipes.

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