Coconut-Chocolate-Almond Cheesecake
(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)
Source: Southern Living-Darlene Evans, Birmingham, Alabama
Serves 10 peopleCategories: Pie- cheesecake- tarts
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate wafer cookie crumbs (28 to 30 cookies)
- 3 Tbsp. sugar
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
- 4 (8oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 (14oz.) pkg. flaked coconut
- 1 (11.5 oz.) pkg. milk chocolate morsels
- 1/2 cup slivered almonds, toasted
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate morsels
- Garnish: toasted chopped almonds
Directions
- Stir together first 3 ingredients; press mixture into bottom of a 10-inch springform pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Cool.
- Beat cream cheese, eggs, and 1 cup sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy. Stir in coconut, milk chocolate morsels, 1/2 cup almonds and vanilla. Pour into pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Cool on a wired rack.
- Place semisweet morsels in a zip-top plastic bag; seal. Submerge bag in warm water until morsels melt. Snip in tiny hole in 1 corner of bag; drizzle chocolate over cheesecake.
- Cover and chill 8 hours. Chill up to 5 days, if desired. Garnish, if desired.