Marble Sour Cream Cheesecake

Name: Marble Sour Cream Cheesecake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon almond extract; 8 chocolate wafer cookies, crushed; 4 eggs; 454 grams packages Neufchâtel cheese, softened; 473 milliliters nonfat sour cream; 118 milliliters sugar; 2 Tbsps unsweetened cocoa; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract

Marble Sour Cream Cheesecake requires about 45 minutes from start to finish. One serving contains 198 calories, 7g of protein, and 11g of fat. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up almond extract, chocolate wafer cookies, vanillan extract, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Coat a 9-inch springform pan with cooking spray; wrap a large piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil around bottom and up sides of springform pan.

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Cooking Spray

Wrap

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Springform Pan

Aluminum Foil

Sprinkle cookie crumbs in bottom of pan; set aside.

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Cookie Crumbs

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Frying Pan

Beat Neufchtel cheese and sour cream at medium speed of an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating well.

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Sour Cream

Cheese

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Add eggs, one at a time, beating at low speed after each addition. Stir in almond and vanilla extracts.

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Vanilla

Almonds

Egg

Spoon 2 cups of batter into a medium bowl; add cocoa, stirring well.

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Cocoa Powder

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Bowl

Pour half of chocolate batter into prepared pan. Spoon plain batter over chocolate batter. Drop remaining chocolate batter, one tablespoon at a time, over plain batter. Swirl with a knife to create a marbled effect.

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Chocolate

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Knife

Frying Pan

Place prepared springform pan in a shallow pan.

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Springform Pan

Add hot water to pan to depth of 1 inch.

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Water

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Frying Pan

Bake at 325 for 55 minutes (center will be soft but will firm when chilled). Turn off oven, and partially open oven door; leave cheesecake in oven 1 hour.

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Oven