Marbled Royal Cheesecake

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 dash salt
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
• 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400 degrees f.
• 2 to prepare crust, place the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl; mix in butter using a pastry blender or a fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• 3 fold in 2 tbsp of the melted chocolate (reheat on low temp if necessary, but do not scorch); reserve remaining chocolate.
• 4 press crust into the bottom of an ungreased 9-inch springform pan.
• 5 bake the crust in preheated oven for 10 minutes or until light brown; cool.
• 6 reduce oven temp to 325.
• 7 to prepare filling, using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar in a mixing bowl until fluffy; add the flour and vanilla, blending well.
• 8 mix in eggs one at a time, using mixer on lowest setting, beating just until blended.
• 9 add sour cream; mix well.
• 10 put 1 3/4 cups of the filling into a separate bowl and stir in the reserved chocolate.
• 11 pour half of the plain filling into the pan with the crust; dot with spoonfuls of the chocolate filling.
• 12 top the rest with the remaining plain filling, then use a knife to swirl the chocolate filling around into the plain filling.
• 13 bake at 325 degrees f for 60-70 minutes or until center is about set; remove from oven and cool 10 minutes before removing sides from pan.
• 14 cool 2-3 hours, then refrigerate 8 hours or overnight before serving.
• 15 note: a shallow pan of water on the bottom shelf rack will help keep the surface of the cake moist and help prevent cracks.