Wonderfully decadent and TOTALLY worth the calories!! So creamy and sweet. Chocolate heaven, followed by a layer of luscious caramel. OMG!!!! I made 2 of these cheesecakes for my husband's birthday party. I made them exactly according to the recipe. I also boned up on the subject of cheesecakes by first reading AllRecipes' cheesecake articles. Very helpful. Anyway, I made the graham cracker crumbs by whirling the broken crackers in the food processor. Very easy. I made sure to use room temperature eggs and softened cream cheese, and (as per the AllRecipes instructions) to beat the ingredients thoroughly yet gently, so as to avoid creating air bubbles. I baked the first cheesecake sitting in a hot water bath. Wrapped the pan in heavy duty foil, but water still got inside somehow, which gave me a scare. So for the second cake, I put the water bath on the lower oven rack. I'm not sure if it made a difference. The first one (the one sitting in the water bath) actually got a small crack, while the second one did not. Go figure. I had planned to serve the cheesecake slices drizzled with caramel sauce (and I bought a jar of Smuckers) but in the end I forgot all about it. We did try the caramel sauce later with leftovers, but although it made the cheesecake look very pretty on the plate, it's really not necessary unless you have a VERY sweet tooth. The reason I made 2 cakes was to ensure plenty of leftovers to enjoy later. Just for the record, it worked out perfectly. One was alm
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