Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake

Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake... How yummy..! This cheesecake is soooo delicious and so simple to make...

Ingredients

2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs

2 tbs unsalted butter

395g individually wrapped caramels

145ml evaporated milk

1 cup of chopped pecans

1/2 cup white sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 eggs

1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

2 (225g) packages of cream cheese, softened

Method

Preheat oven to 175 degrees. Grease a 9" springform pan.

Melt butter or margarine and combine the cookie crumbs. 

Press into the bottom of the springform pan.

Melt caramels with the evaporated milk in a saucepan over low heat.

Pour Caramel sauce into crust, top with pecans.

In a large bowl combine cream cheese, sugar and vanilla, beat well until smooth.
Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.

Melt the chocolate and blend into cream cheese mixture.

Pour chocolate batter over pecans.

Bake for 40 minutes. 

Loosen cake from edges of pan, but do not remove rim until cooled.

Chill completely.