DIY Mint Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

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Like popular mint chocolate chip ice cream, this creamy, mint cheesecake is studded with miniature semi-sweet chocolate morsels. You won’t be able to stop at one slice of this Mint Chocolate Chip Cheesecake! Do you want to try it?

What you will need:

  • 15 Oreo cookies
  • 10 Keebler Grasshoper fudge mint cookies
  • 5 tablespoons of melted butter
  • 3 (8-ounce) packages of softened cream cheese
  • a 14-ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon Crème de Menthe
  • 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon green food coloring
  • 2 cup miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 teaspoon flour
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 9 inch pan
  • hand-held mixer
  • food processor

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 3 degrees F .
  2. Put cookies and mint cookies into food processor, pulse until fine crumbs form. Add 5 tablespoons of melted butter and pulse until the crumbs become moistened.
  3. Press crumb mixture into bottom of a 9-inch springform pan.
  4. Place softened cream cheese into a large bowl. Using mixer, beat until the cream cheese is light and fluffy. Then add condensed milk, eggs, Crème de Menthe, peppermint and food coloring, and mix well.
  5. Mix 1 cup miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon flour, then stir the chocolate chips into to the cream cheese mixture.
  6. Pour the mixture into the prepared springform pan.
  7. Top with 1/2 cup miniature chocolate chips.
  8. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour.
  9. In a small bowl, mix 1/2 cup chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon milk. Heat in the microwave for 30 seconds and stir until creamy.
  10. Drizzle the melted chocolate over each slice before serving.

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