Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake Recipe

02 April 2009 ~ 5 Comments

Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake Recipe

I love Kraft’s What’s Cooking Magazine, so when the latest edition came, and in it was a recipe for the ULTIMATE Cheesecake, I had to try it. IT just so happened to co-incide with my birthday, so I treated myself and made it! It was SO AMAZINGLY GOOD!!! Try it, you’ll agree!

Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake

1-1/4 cups finely chopped toasted pecans

2 Tbsp. non-hydrogenated margarine, melted

3/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp. sugar, divided

32 KRAFT Caramels, chopped

3 Tbsp. milk

3 pkg. (250 g each) PHILADELPHIA Brick Cream Cheese, softened

3 eggs

1 pkg. (8 squares) BAKER’S Semi-Sweet Chocolate, melted, cooled slightly

1/2 cup pecan halves, toasted

HEAT oven to 350°F. Cover bottom of 9-inch springform pan with parchment paper. Combine chopped pecans, margarine and 2 Tbsp. sugar; press onto bottom of pan. Microwave caramels and milk in microwaveable bowl on MEDIUM 4 to 5 min. or until caramels are completely melted and mixture is well blended, stirring every 2 min. Spread over crust to within 1 inch of edge; cool.

BEAT cream cheese and remaining sugar with mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended. Stir in chocolate; pour over caramel layer.

BAKE 45 to 50 min. or until centre is almost set. Run knife or metal spatula around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim. Refrigerate 4 hours. Sprinkle with pecans halves just before serving.

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5 Responses to “Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake Recipe”

Dawn 3 April 2009 at 8:08 pm Permalink

What, you made your own birthday cake?? That’s not fair.

I <3 What’s Cooking too, but it seems to hate me. I sign up, I get like 2 magazines, and then they just disappear. Then I sign up again, get a couple more, then they stop coming again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Catherine Robertson 4 April 2009 at 6:12 am Permalink

It went down kinda like this:

“Hey Stuart, would you mind if I made my own Birthday Cake this year?”

Stuart: “Um, I guess not, why, what are you making?”

“CHEESECAKE!!!!!”

Stuart: “Nuff Said”

He knows better than to mess with a girl and her cheesecake! lol
Eve 4 May 2009 at 12:55 am Permalink

Hello Cat,

I came upon your website by “accident” looking for a recipe and was amused by it as it is oddly similar to mine… I have recipes also and a blog that has the same “look” as this website.
Keep up the nice work!

Eve
Heather 22 November 2009 at 2:13 pm Permalink

You realy can’t mess w/ a girl and her cheesecake. I made my twins a mango panda bear cheesecake for their birthday last year. There should be more cheesecakes for birthdays. yummy
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