Pumpkin-Orange Cheesecake with Chocolate Crust and Salted Caramel

Pumpkin-Orange Cheesecake with Chocolate Crust and Salted Caramel
This recipe serves 16. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains approximately 6g of protein, 28g of fat, and a total of 431 calories. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 3 hours. Head to the store and pick up table salt, cream, eggs, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

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Make crust: Preheat oven to 35
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Whirl cookies in a food processor until finely ground. Whirl in butter just until incorporated.
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Pour crumbs into a 9-in. springform pan and press over bottom and about 1 in. up inside of pan.
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Bake 7 minutes, then let cool on a rack. Reduce oven heat to 30
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Make filling: In a large bowl, with a mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese, sugars, and flour until smooth. Beat in eggs on low speed 1 at a time.
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Add remaining filling ingredients and beat until just blended. Wrap bottom of pan with foil, pressing it up the outside.
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Set springform pan in a roasting pan and pour filling into crust.
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Pour enough boiling water into roasting pan to come about halfway up side of springform pan.
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Bake until cheesecake barely jiggles in the center when gently shaken, about 1 1/4 hours.
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Let cheesecake cool on a rack 1 hour, then chill until cold, at least 5 hours.
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Whisk caramel topping and table salt in a bowl and spoon over cheesecake. Arrange pecans around rim and sprinkle flaked salt over pecans.
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*Flaked salt has large, hollow, crunchy crystals. Find it at well-stocked grocery stores and online.
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DifficultyExpert
Ready In3 hrs
Servings16
Health Score2
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