Grasshopper Cheesecake

The other day I bought this For Women First magazine because it had a big article by Dr. Oz on how to lose stubborn belly fat. Turns out the article was a total snoozefest but the magazine did have this delicious Grasshopper Cheesecake recipe that we just had to try. It probably did not aid in my quest to lose stubborn belly fat though.

Here's what you will need:
42 Oreos
1/2 c. semi sweet chocolate chips
2/3 c. melted butter
4 pkgs. (8 oz. each) cream cheese, at room temp.
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. peppermint extract
pinch of salt

3 large eggs
2 large egg yolks
1/2 c. heavy cream
3 T. flour
1 c. whipped topping

Heat oven to 325 degrees. Remove and discard (or secretly eat when no one is looking) cream filling from cookies. In food processor, pulse cookies, chocolate chips, and butter until fine crumbs form. Press into bottom and up sides of a 9" springform pan. Chill 30 min.



With beaters, beat next 5 ingredients until smooth. Add next 4 ingredients and beat until smooth. Add 2 drops green food coloring.



Pour batter into prepared crust.

I have an 8" pan so we had a little batter left over so we whipped up some graham cracker crusts in Haylee's cute little pie pans and made mini cheesecakes. I kind of liked those ones better.


Place pan filled with hot water on lowest oven rack. Place cake on upper rack. Cover cake with foil; bake 1 hour. Remove foil; bake 15 min. more. Let cake cool in oven with door slightly ajar 1 hour. Let cool completely and chill for 4 hours. Remove cake from pan. Pipe whipped topping border onto cake and garnish with chocolate curls.

(It took our cheese cake more than an hour and 15 min. to bake. it probably took closer to an hour and a half and the top was a little brown so I had to cut it off so it didn't look as pretty as the picture in the magazine, but it was so yummy!