Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake Recipes

Steps:

• In a microwave, melt butter and unsweetened chocolate; stir until smooth. Set aside. In a large bowl, beat brown sugar and eggs until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Beat in chocolate mixture and vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder; gradually add to batter and mix well. Stir in chopped chocolate. , Spread 1 cup into a greased 9-in. springform pan. Cover and refrigerate remaining batter. Place pan on a baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 17-19 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes; place in freezer for 15 minutes. , For filling, in a large bowl, beat the peanut butter, cream cheese and brown sugar until smooth. Add eggs and sour cream; beat on low speed just until combined. Spread remaining brownie batter about 1-1/2 in. high around sides of pan, sealing to baked crust. , Pour filling into center. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until center is almost set. , For topping, combine sour cream and sugar; spread over filling to within 3/4 in. of edges. Return cheesecake to the oven; turn oven off and let stand for 5 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Carefully run a knife around pan to loosen; cool 1 hour longer. Refrigerate overnight. If desired, top with peanuts and drizzle with melted chocolate. Refrigerate leftovers.

Steps:

• Place graham crackers into a plastic bag and crush them into fine crumbs with a rolling pin.
• Pour the graham cracker crumbs into a bowl and combine with melted butter, mixing until the texture is like slightly wet sand.
• Press the graham cracker crumbs in an even layer into the bottom of a 9-inch (23 cm) springform pan. Refrigerate.
• In a large bowl, mix together softened cream cheese until smooth.
• Add the powdered sugar and continue to mix until there are no lumps.
• Add the vanilla and melted chocolate and mix until the color is even.
• Pour the mixture over the graham cracker crust in the springform pan. Using a spatula or spoon, smooth the top. Refrigerate.
• In a large bowl, mix together melted peanut butter and confectioner's sugar.
• Pour mixture over cheesecake in springform pan. Use a knife or spatula to spread evenly and smooth the top.
• Refrigerate for 2-4 hours.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• DIRECTIONS For Cheesecake.
• Crust: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Wrap bottom and outside of a 9-inch springform pan with a double layer of foil. (this is necessary to prevent leakage) Coat bottom of pan with cooking spray, and line with parchment paper cut to fit the bottom of the pan. Spray parchment paper.
• Stir together cookie crumbs, butter, and sugar in a medium bowl. Press mixture firmly into bottom of pan,(use the bottom of a measuring cup to press down) and bake until firm, about 10 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on wire rack.
• Filling: Melt chocolate in a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. (do not let the bottom of the bowl touch the water as this will burn the chocolate) Let cool. Beat cream cheese with a mixer (use paddle attachment) on medium speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low, and beat in sugar in a slow, steady stream until combined. Beat in salt and vanilla until thoroughly combined and completely smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, scraping bowl between each addition and beating just until combined after each addition (do not over-mix).
• Divide cream-cheese filling in half. Stir peanut butter into 1 half; stir melted chocolate into other half. Ladle peanut butter filling into center of crust, and tap pan gently on counter to settle. Smooth out to crust with a spatula. Put into the freezer for 5-7 minutes to just set the filling. Ladle chocolate filling directly on top of peanut butter filling and spread evenly out to the edges.
• Bring a kettle of water to a boil. Set cake pan in a large roasting pan, and transfer to oven. Carefully pour boiling water into roasting pan to reach halfway up sides of cake pan. Bake until cake is set but still slightly wobbly in center, about 1 hour 20 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on wire rack. Refrigerate cake in pan until cold, at least 6 hours, up to overnight covering with a cloth. Before un-molding, run a knife around edge of cake.
• DIRECTIONS For Glaze.
• Melt chocolate and butter in a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat, and stir in milk and corn syrup. Use immediately.
• Make the chocolate glaze and immediately pour glaze over top of cake starting in the center , smoothing with an offset spatula and letting it drip down the sides. Cut mini peanut butter cups in half and pile in the middle of the cheesecake.
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Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine cream cheese and peanut butter in a large bowl. Beat the mixture in an electric mixer (using a wire whip) until smooth. Gradually add sugar and flour. Beat on medium speed until sugar and flour are incorporated well into cheese and peanut butter mixture. Scrape ingredients from side of bowl before adding eggs. Add eggs gradually and continue to beat on medium speed for two or three minutes until mixture is smooth. Mix in the vanilla extract. Be careful not to over-mix. Remove bowl from mixer. Pour mixture into prepared peanut butter cookie crust. Place cheesecake in oven on center rack. Bake cheesecake in a water bath for approximately 2 hours in 350 degree oven or until tip of a knife comes out clean when inserted in center of cake. Dust with powdered sugar or sprinkle with chopped mint. PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE CRUST: 10 peanut butter cookies 1 teaspoon sugar 2 or 3 tablespoons melted butter Vegetable oil spray
• Use hands to crumble peanut butter cookies in a small mixing bowl. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Add 2 or 3 tablespoons of melted butter (depending upon the desired consistency). Mix all ingredients well. Spray a 9 by 3-inch springform pan with the vegetable oil. Place ingredients into the bottom of spring form pan. Using fingertips or spoon, press ingredients to form crust.

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• Cook's Note: All the ingredients should be at room temperature before you start.
• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Process the crackers, peanuts, bittersweet chocolate chips, and butter in a food processor. Once it comes together in a clump, turn it into a springform pan and press into the bottom and up the sides to make the crunchy crust. Put it in the refrigerator while you make the filling.
• Add all the filling ingredients to a food processor and pulse until it becomes a smooth mixture.
• Pour and scrape the filling into the crust and bake for 1 hour, checking after 45 minutes. The top, only, should feel set and dry.
• Take the cheesecakes out of the oven and set aside while you make the topping. Warm the sour cream and milk chocolate with the brown sugar in a small saucepan over a low heat. Gently whisk to blend in the chocolate as it melts, then take the pan off the heat.
• Spoon and spread the topping very gently over the top of the cheesecake, being as careful as you so as not to break the surface. (Not that anything bad will happen; you'll just have chocolate marbling the cake a bit.) Put it back in the oven for a final 10 minutes. Remove the cake from the oven and cool. Slice and serve.
• Make Ahead:
• Make the cheesecake up to 2 days ahead. Cool and chill as directed. Do not cover until completely cold, then cover with a plate or plastic wrap, making sure that the covering does not touch the surface. Unmold and serve as directed in the recipe. This will keep in the refrigerator for up to 4 days total.
• Freeze Note:
• The cheesecake can be frozen for 1 month. Make sure it is thoroughly chilled then wrap, still in its pan, in a double layer of plastic wrap and layer of aluminum foil. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator and eat within 2 days. A small amount of condensation may appear on surface of the cheesecake after thawing, but it is still fine to eat.

Steps:

• Crust: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Wrap bottom and outside of a 9-inch springform pan with a double layer of foil. Coat bottom of pan with cooking spray, and line with parchment. Spray parchment.
• Stir together cookie crumbs, butter, and sugar in a medium bowl. Press mixture firmly into bottom of pan, and bake until firm, about 10 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on wire rack.
• Filling: Melt chocolate in a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. Let cool. Beat cream cheese with a mixer on medium speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low, and beat in sugar in a slow, steady stream until combined. Beat in salt and vanilla until thoroughly combined and completely smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until combined after each addition (do not overmix).
• Divide cream-cheese filling in half. Stir peanut butter into 1 half; stir melted chocolate into other half. Ladle 1 cup peanut butter filling into center of crust, and tap pan gently on counter to settle. Ladle 1 cup chocolate filling directly on top of peanut butter filling. Repeat, then switching to half-cup amounts, continue to ladle fillings into crust, alternating them until all of each filling is used.
• Bring a kettle of water to a boil. Set cake pan in a large roasting pan, and transfer to oven. Carefully pour boiling water into roasting pan to reach halfway up sides of cake pan. Bake until cake is set but still slightly wobbly in center, about 1 hour 20 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on wire rack. Refrigerate cake in pan until cold, at least 6 hours, up to overnight. Before unmolding, run a knife around edge of cake. Pour glaze over top of cake, smoothing with an offset spatula and letting it drip down the sides.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Line the bottom of a 10-inch springform pan with parchment paper. Wrap the outside bottom of the pan with aluminum foil; this will prevent water from seeping in during baking.
• Prepare crust: Grind cookie thins in a food processor into a fine texture. Pour melted butter in slowly and pulse until combined. Press crumb mixture into the bottom and halfway up the sides of the prepared pan.
• Prepare filling: Beat cream cheese in a large bowl until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well and scraping the sides of the bowl after each addition. Beat in brown sugar, peanut butter, whipping cream, and vanilla extract until smooth, scraping the sides as needed.
• Pour 1/2 of the filling into the prepared pan and smooth it out with a spatula. Add mini peanut butter cups in an even layer on top, then pour remaining filling over, smoothing with a spatula. Place pan in a large baking pan and fill with 1 inch hot water.
• Set baking pan in the middle of the preheated oven and bake until edges are puffed and surface of cheesecake is firm except for a small spot in the center that will jiggle when the pan is gently shaken, about 1 1/2 hours. Run the tip of a table knife around the edges of the pan, set the pan on a wire rack, and allow the cheesecake to cool at room temperature, about 1 hour.
• While the cheesecake is cooling, prepare ganache: Place chocolate chips in a bowl. Heat whipping cream in a small saucepan until simmering, then pour over chocolate chips. Mix until chocolate has melted and mixture is smooth. Spread ganache on top of the cheesecake.
• Place in the refrigerator to chill for at least 2 hours before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat the to 350°F and prep a 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray (bottom only).
• Prepare 6 1-inch balls of dough and flatten on a cookie sheet.
• Press the rest of the cookie dough in the 9x13 pan. Bake the cookies and the crust for 10 minutes or until the cookies are just done. Cool both. Set the cookies aside.
• In small bowl, melt the chocolate chips and butter uncovered in the microwave on medium-high heat, stirring every 15 seconds until the chocolate is melted and combined with the butter. Spread on the crust. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes or until firm.
• Beat cream cheese, peanut butter, powdered sugar and cream until blended. Then, beat on high speed about 2 minutes or until light and fluffy. Spread over the chocolate layer.
• Crumble the reserved cookies coarsely. Sprinkle over the cream cheese layer and sort-of lightly press them into the cheese. Refrigerate another 30 minutes. Store in the refrigerator.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Stir together crust ingredients in a small bowl.
• Press mixture onto bottom of a 9-in.
• springform pan.
• Bake 10 minutes.
• Remove from oven.
• Turn oven temp up to 450 degrees F.
• Beat cream cheese and sugar in a large bowl on med.
• speed w/a mixer until smooth.
• Place peanut butter chips and milk in a small microwave-safe bowl.
• Microwave at high for 1 minute.
• Stir.
• If necessary microwave at High for an additional 15 seconds at a time, stirring after each heating, just until chips are melted when stirred.
• Add peanut butter mixture to cream cheese mixture, beating until blended.
• Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Pour mixture into prepared graham cracker crust.
• Bake 10 minutes.
• Reuce oven temp.
• to 250 degrees F; continue baking 40 minutes.
• Remove from oven to wire rack, with a knife loosen cake from side of pan.
• Cool completely; remove side of pan.
• Prepare Chocolate drizzle-Place ch.
• chips and shortening (do not use butter or margarine) in a microwave-safe bowl.
• Microwave on High for 30 sec, stir.
• Microwave longer if necessary.
• Drizzle ch.
• drizzle over cheesecake.
• Refrigerate before serving, at least 1 hour.
• Cover and refrigerate leftover cheesecake-- if there is any.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325ºF.
• Mix graham crumbs, 3 Tbsp. sugar and butter; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan.
• Beat cream cheese, peanut butter and remaining sugar with mixer until blended. Add sour cream and vanilla; mix well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended.
• Transfer 3 cups batter to medium bowl; stir in melted chocolate. Pour over crust. Refrigerate remaining batter until ready to use.
• Bake 1 hour or until center is almost set, gently spooning remaining batter over partially baked layer in pan after 30 min. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim. Refrigerate cheesecake 4 hours.

Steps:

• Mix crumbs and butter and put crumb mixture onto bottom of greased 9 inch spring form pan. Bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees, and cool crust on a wire rack.
• In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and peanut butter. Add eggs, one at a time, beating on low speed after each addition.
• Add sour cream and vanilla. Add the mini chocolate chips.
• Pour cheesecake mixture into prepared cookie crust.
• Put cheesecake in 350 degree oven on middle oven rack.
• Position a baking pan filled halfway with hot water on lower rack.
• Bake 15 minutes., then lower oven temperature to 300 degrees and bake 70 minutes.
• Turn oven off. Let cake stand in oven, with door ajar, 30 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let cool on wire rack.
• In a medium bowl, combine sour cream, melted chocolate chips, and powdered sugar for topping.
• Spread chocolate topping over cooled cheesecake.
• Let chocolate topping cool and set. Cool cheesecake completely on a wire rack.
• Refrigerate .12-24 hours.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Beat first 3 ingredients with mixer until well blended. Add peanut butter and milk; mix well. Add eggs; mix just until blended.
• Pour into crust.
• Bake 40 min. or until center is almost set. Cool completely. Refrigerate 3 hours.

Steps:

• Place a greased 9-in. springform pan on a double thickness of heavy-duty foil (about 18 in. square). Securely wrap foil around pan., Place cookies in a food processor; cover and process until fine crumbs. Stir in butter. Press onto the bottom and 2 in. up the sides of prepared pan; set aside., In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in the melted chocolates and vanilla. Add eggs; beat on low speed just until combined. Pour into crust. Place springform pan in a large baking pan; add 1 in. of hot water to larger pan., Bake at 325° for 60-65 minutes or until center is just set and top appears dull. Remove springform pan from water bath. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Carefully run a knife around edge of pan to loosen; cool 1 hour longer., For peanut butter mousse, sprinkle gelatin over cold water; let stand for 1 minute. Microwave on high for 20-30 seconds. Stir and let stand for 1 minute or until gelatin is completely dissolved., Meanwhile, in a small heavy saucepan, heat the cream, peanut butter and sugar until bubbles form around sides of pan. Whisk a small amount of hot mixture into the egg yolks. Return all to the pan, whisking constantly., Cook and stir over low heat until mixture is thickened and coats the back of a spoon. Stir in gelatin mixture. Quickly transfer to a bowl; place in ice water and stir for 15 minutes or until cold and thickened. Pour over cheesecake. Refrigerate overnight. Remove sides of pan., For garnish, in a microwave, melt chocolate. Drizzle over cheesecake. Garnish with chocolate curls and whipped cream if desired.

Steps:

• Combine peanut butter, butter, and brown sugar in a microwave-safe bowl; heat in microwave until melted and evenly combined, about 45 seconds. Add graham cracker crumbs into a pie plate. Pour peanut butter mixture over graham cracker crumbs and stir. Flatten crust into the bottom and up the sides of pie plate using the back of a spoon.
• Mix sweetened condensed milk, cream cheese, and chocolate syrup together in the bowl of a stand mixer on low speed until combined.
• Combine dark chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, and vegetable oil in a microwave-safe bowl; heat in microwave on 50% power until melted, stirring every 15 seconds, about 1 minute. Mix chocolate mixture into cream cheese mixture on low speed, scraping down sides of bowl as needed, until filling is smooth. Pour filling into crust and refrigerate until completely chilled, at least 2 hours.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Beat first 3 ingredients with mixer until well blended. Add chocolate, peanut butter and milk; mix well. Add eggs; mix just until blended.
• Pour into crust.
• Bake 40 min. or until center is almost set. Cool completely. Refrigerate 3 hours.

Steps:

• MIX whipped topping and cream cheese together until blended well.
• ADD sugar and peanut butter until completely mixed.
• FILL pie crust and top with chocolate morsels. For firmer pie refrigerate 30 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• For the crust combine cookie crumbs and melted butter together. Press mix. to bottom of greased 9-inch springform pan or 9-inch cheesecake pan. Place in freezer until filling is prepared.
• For the filling, cream the cheese with the sugar until fluffy.
• Add the flour.
• Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
• Stir in the vanilla and the peanut butter.
• Pour filling into frozen crust and bake at 350°F for 50 minutes or until center jiggles slightly.
• Meanwhile, prepare topping by chopping up chocolate and placing pieces in metal bowel.
• Heat the heavy cream in a sauce pan until it begins to boil, taking care it does not burn.
• Pour hot cream over chocolate pieces. Leave it for 2 minutes.
• After the 2 minutes, stir the chocolate mix. until fully incorporated and you have a smooth ganache.
• Set ganache aside to cool.
• After removing the cheesecake from oven, allow to cool for 2 hours. Before placing in refrigerator, spread chocolate ganache on top of cake. Refrigerate for at least 6 hours.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Mix sweetener, peanut butter, and cream cheese together in a small bowl until filling is smooth. Spread peanut butter filling onto the bottom of the pie crust.
• Place chocolate in the top of a double boiler over simmering water. Stir frequently, scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching, until chocolate is melted, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Place sweetener and cream cheese for chocolate filling into a small mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until soft. Add milk slowly; mix with a wire whisk until smooth. Add melted chocolate. Stir well. Add eggs and vanilla extract; mix until well blended. Pour into the pie crust on top of peanut butter mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until set, 20 to 25 minutes. Chill for about 2 hours before serving.

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• In a heavy sauce pan over low heat, melt the butter and chocolate chips. Remove from heat and gently stir in rice cereal until coated. Press into the bottom and sides of a 9 inch pie plate. Chill 30 minutes.
• In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually beat in condensed milk and peanut butter until smooth. Stir in lemon juice and vanilla. Fold in whipped cream. Pour into prepared crust. Drizzle chocolate topping over pie and freeze for 4 hours or until firm. Keep in freezer until ready to serve, and return leftovers to the freezer as well.