Description

Your family and guests will thank you endlessly for making this decadent dessert. It's the ultimate cheesecake for chocolate and peanut butter lovers.

Ingredients

• Crust:
• 15 chocolate graham crackers
• 3 T. sugar
• 1/8 t. kosher salt
• 4 T. butter, melted
• Cheesecake:
• 4 - 8 oz. packages cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1 c. packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 t. kosher salt
• 1 T. pure vanilla extract
• 4 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 c. creamy peanut butter
• 3/4 c. heavy cream
• 1/2 c. sour cream
• chopped Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, for garnish
• Chocolate Ganache:
• 6 oz. bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 3/4 c. heavy cream
• 1/8 t. kosher salt

Steps

1. Crust:
2. Butter a 9 inch springform pan; wrap bottom and sides of pan in a double layer of aluminum foil. Place oven rack in middle of oven. Preheat to 350 degrees.
3. In a food processor or blender, grind chocolate graham crackers into fine crumbs; add sugar and salt; pulse to combine. Transfer to a medium bowl; add butter; use fork or fingers to blend mixture until crumbs are evenly moist. Press into the bottom and about a third of the way up the sides of springform pan. Freeze 10 minutes.