Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

Oh. Em. Gee. This was AMAZING! This was my first cheesecake and I was very pleased with how it turned out. I was reading about water baths and that cheesecakes crack a lot of times without it. So I did it. It was pretty easy. I found a tutorial that said to use crockpot liners and others said tin foil. I did both. I wrapped the pan in foil and then tied the crockpot liner around it to keep the butter in and water out. It worked perfectly. I'd make it that way again. The original recipe I found gave instructions for both with and without the water bath. I am only going to include what to do with a water bath. I also removed it from the pan before I chilled it. I think probably that needs to be done just before serving. I'll try it that way next time and update.

Recipe: Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake
Original Source: Facebook
Approximate Cost: Unknown

Ingredients:
- 3 8 oz blocks of cream cheese
- 1 15oz can pumpkin puree
- 4 large eggs
- 3/4 cups of sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp all purpose flour
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- 24 whole Oreos
- 6 tbsp melted butter
- 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup caramel topping
- cool whip

1. Preheat oven to 350

2. In stand mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add pumpkin, eggs, sugars, sour cream, vanilla, flour, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt. Beat until no clumps remain.

3. Crust: crush Oreos into fine crumbs and add melted butter.

4. Prepare 9" springform pan. Press Oreos into pan on bottom and 1/3 up the side. Add filling.

5. Wrap pain in foil and then slow cooker liner. Place in a baking dish. Fill baking dish with boiling water.

6. Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes or until slightly jiggly in the middle (Idk WTF that even means but it took me more like 1 hour and 30 minutes until the jiggle was slight and not excessive.)

7. Turn off oven and prop door open for 1 hour. Remove from dish and unwrap. Chill for 4 hours or overnight. Drizzle with chocolate and caramel before serving.