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