1.5 cups chocolate wafer cookie crumbs 28 to 30 cookies
14 ounce coconut or flaked
32 ounce cream cheese softened
3 large eggs
11.5 ounce milk chocolate morsels
0.5 cup semisweet chocolate morsels
0.5 cup slivered almonds toasted
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Equipment
frying pan
oven
wire rack
hand mixer
ziploc bags
springform pan
Directions
Stir together first 3 ingredients; press mixture into bottom of a 10-inch springform pan.
Bake at 350 for 8 minutes. Cool.
Beat cream cheese, eggs, and 1 cup sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy. Stir in coconut, milk chocolate morsels,1/2 cup almonds, and vanilla.
Pour into pan.
Bake at 350 for 1 hour. Cool on a wire rack.
Place semisweet morsels in a zip-top plastic bag; seal. Submerge bag in warm water until morsels melt. Snip a tiny hole in 1 corner of bag; drizzle chocolate over cheesecake.
Cover and chill 8 hours. Chill up to 5 days, if desired.
Garnish, if desired.
NOTE: For testing purposes only, we used Nabisco chocolate wafers.
