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Turtle Cheesecake
 
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Prep Time: 40 Minutes
Cook Time: 1 Minutes
Ready In: 41 Minutes
Servings: 6
A finalist in the 2001 Nestle Toll House Share the Very Best recipe contest, this dessert was submitted by Audra Burtch of Chandler, Arizona. This family favorite is a marbled cheesecake topped with a decadent combination of pecans, chocolate morsels and caramel and chocolate syrups.
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups chocolate graham cracker crumbs
1/3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine, melted
3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs
3 tablespoons lime juice
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups nestlÉ® toll house® semi-sweet chocolate morsels
2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
2 tablespoons caramel sundae syrup or 2 tablespoons ice cream topping
1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans
1/4 cup nestle toll house miniature semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
1. PREHEAT oven to 300 degrees F.
2. Grease 9-inch springform pan.
3. COMBINE crumbs and butter in medium bowl.
4. Press onto bottom and 1 inch up side of prepared pan.
5. BEAT cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk in large mixer bowl until smooth.
6. Add sugar, eggs, lime juice and vanilla extract; beat until combined.
7. Microwave morsels in medium, microwave-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) power for 1 minute; stir.
8. Morsels may retain some of their shape.
9. If necessary, microwave at additional 10- to 15-second intervals, stirring just until morsels are melted.
10. Stir 2 cups of cheesecake batter into melted morsels; mix well.
11. Alternately spoon batters into crust, beginning and ending with yellow batter.
12. BAKE for 1 hour 10 to 15 minutes or until edge is set and center moves slightly.
13. Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes; run knife around edge of cheesecake.
14. Cool completely.
15. Drizzle Nesquik™ and caramel syrup over cheesecake.
16. Sprinkle with pecans and mini morsels.
17. Refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
18. Remove side of pan.
By RecipeOfHealth.com