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Bittersweet Bistro

Pumpkin Cheesecake
with a Chocolate Hazelnut Crust Recipe

Chocolate Hazelnut Crust:

Method:

Place wafer crumbs, nuts and sugar in a kitchen-aid mixer with a paddle. Add butter and mix until incorporated. Place crust mixture into a 10 inch buttered and parchment lined cake pan. Compact the mixture well, to cover the bottom of the pan. Bake in a preheated 350 degree F oven for about 10 minutes and let cool.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Batter:

Method:

In kitchen-aid mixer with paddle, beat cream cheese, sugar, vanilla bean, corn starch, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger, until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time, scrapping the bowl between additions. Add egg whites, cream, and lemon juice and mix well.

In a separate bowl by hand, mix marscapone cheese and pumpkin puree until smooth. Combine the two bowls, mixing until smooth. Place mixture into pre baked crust. Bake at 325 degrees F in lower third of oven in a water bath. Check in one hour. Bake until cheese cake firms up and does not souflé (approximately 1-2 hours). Cool over night in refrigerator. When ready to serve run a hot knife around the edge of the cake. Place the cake pan into a hot water bath for one minute. This will loosen up the crust. Invert onto a plastic wrapped plate and tap gently to loosen. Cake will release. Place another serving plate on top of cake and flip over.

Refrigerate for at least 15 minutes. Slice with a hot knife. Enjoy!

Serves 10-12.

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