Florida Bay Snickers Cheesecake

Title:
Florida Bay Snickers Cheesecake

Yield:
12 Servings

Categories:
Cheesecake,
Candy
bars




Ingredients:





     1    9" Unbaked pie shell


 1 1/2 lb Cream cheese, cubed


 1 1/4 c  Sugar


     1 ts Vanilla


     3    Eggs, divided


     6    Snickers candy bars, reg sz


     2 oz Caramels


     1 tb Whipping cream


     2 oz Semisweet chocolate morsels


     3 tb Whipping cream


          Peanuts, chopped for garnish






 Using a 9" pie shell, remove fluted rim (reserve for another use) and place


 pie shell in bottom of 9" springform pan. Bake in 350~F oven until golden


 brown. Allow pan to cool, grease sides of pan; set aside. In a mixing bowl,


 place cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and 1 egg. With flat beater, mix until


 smooth. Scrape down sides of bowl with spatula and add 2 eggs. Mix until


 smooth and completely blended. Cut each Snickers candy bars length-wise


 once, then cut crosswise into 14 to 16 pieces. Fold Snickers chunks into


 cream cheese batter with rubber spatula. Pour batter into prepared crust in


 spring-form pan. Bake in 275~F oven for 2 hours. cool completely in


 refrigerator. Remove from springform pan and place on service plate. Melt


 caramels with 1 Tb whipping cream in microwave oven. Remove from microwave


 and blend completely with whisk. Spread caramel on top of cheesecake to


 within 1" of edge. Melt semisweet chocolate morsels with 3 Tb of whipping


 cream in microwave oven for 30 seconds on high setting. Remove from


 microwave, blend completely with whisk. Spread on top of cheesecake over


 caramel to 1/2" of edge. Sprinkle top of cheesecake with chopped peanuts.


 


 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #653 by Nancy Berry 
on


 Jul 01, 1997