Mint Chocolate Cheesecake

• Refrigerated

  • 4 Eggs

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 Cheesecake filling - philadelphia recipe
  • 1 Chocolate mint topping
  • 4 oz Mint chocolates
  • 1 tube Neon green gel food coloring
  • 1 cup Powdered sugar
  • 17 tbsp Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla

• Bread & Baked Goods

  • 1 Crust

• Snacks

  • 1 pkg 20 cookies

• Dairy

  • 5/16 cup Butter
  • 1/3 cup Cream

• Other

  • 4 pkg (8 oz ea cream cheese, softened

Found on packmomma.com

Description

Ingredients

• Crust
• 1 pkg (20 cookies) mint sandwich cookies, pulverized
• 1 tbl sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• Cheesecake Filling - Philadelphia recipe
• 4 pkg (8 oz ea) cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 1 tube Neon Green Gel Food Coloring (found in the cake aisle in most grocery stores)
• Chocolate Mint Topping
• 4 oz mint chocolates, melted
• 1 tbl butter, melted
• 1/3 cup cream
• 1 cup powdered sugar

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and butter sides of a spring-form pan
• Blend cookies in a food processor until finely ground and then mix in sugar and butter to combine
• Press crumbs evenly onto the bottom and up the sides of the spring-form pan. Set aside
• In a large mixing bowl, combine cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy.. no lumps!
• Add in vanilla and eggs, one at a time, until all are incorporated.
• Squeeze in an entire tube of Neon Green Gel Food Coloring and mix to combine
• Spoon cheesecake filling into the crust and smooth out the top so that it is even
• Place cheesecake in the middle of the oven with a pan of water on the rack below it
• Bake for 50 minutes, turn off the oven and open the door. Do not remove the cheesecake for 1 hour and then transfer to the refrigerator to chill overnight.
• The next day, remove cheesecake from the fridge and run a butter knife around the inside edge of the pan. Remove cheesecake from the spring-form.
• In a small, microwave safe bowl, melt the mint chocolates on high in 30 second intervals, stirring after each 30 seconds. Pour melted chocolate into a medium sized mixing bowl and add in butter, cream and powdered sugar.
• Mix to combine until frosting is light and slightly pourable
• Spoon / pour frosting onto the top of the cheesecake and smooth out top until even.
• Serve immediately