Chocolate Rum Cheesecake

Ingredients

130 gr graham cracker crumbs
150 gr sugar
26 gr sugar
55 gr unslated butter melted
170 gr semisweet chocolate
60 gr rum
450 ml cream cheese
120 ml sour cream
14 gr vanilla
5 eggs

Instructions

Preheat oven to 160ÂșC Butter inside of springform pan well & cover the outside (bottom & sides) with a sheet of heavy-duty aluminum foil, shiny side out. This reflects heat away from cheesecake & prevents it from baking too fast & becoming overcooked. Mix graham cracker crumbs with 2 tb of the sugar & add melted butter. Press evenly on bottom & sides of pan; refrigerate until ready to use. Cut chocolate into small pieces. Melt in microwave; combine with rum. Set aside. Beat cream cheese with electric mixer until ight & fluffy. Gradually beat in sugar, sour cream & vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time. Mix well. Place bowl over a pan of hot water & mix until smooth (do not let water touch bottom of bowl). Pour about 1.25 cups of this batter into a separte bowl & set aside. Whisk remaining batter w/the chocolate, then stir over hot water until smooth. Take springform pan from refrigerator & fill w/chocolate batter. Gently pour plain batter over top & make swirls down into the chocolate batter with a fork. Place on middle rack of oven & bake for 50 minutes. Cool to room temp, remove foil & rim of pan & refrigerate overnight.