Recipe#8337

Title: Baileys 02

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2 cups graham cracker crumbs
 1/4 cup sugar
 6 T. (3/4 stick) butter, melted
 2 1/4 pounds cream cheese, room temperature
 1 2/3 cups sugar
 5 eggs, room temperature
 1 cup Baileys Irish Cream
 1 T. vanilla extract
 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
 1 cup chilled whipping cream
 2 T. sugar
 1 t. instant coffee powder
 chocolate curls
 Preheat oven to 325F. Coat 9" diameter springform pan with nonstick
 vegetable oil spray. Combine crumbs and sugar in pan.  Stir in
 butter. Press mixture into bottom and 1" up sides of pan.  Bake
 until light brown, about 7 minutes. Maintain oven temperature at
 325F.
 Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth.  Gradually
 mix in sugar. Beat eggs in one at a time. Blend in Baileys and
 vanilla.
 Sprinkle half of chocolate chips over crust.  Spoon in filling.
 Sprinkle with remaining chocolate chips. Bake cake until puffed,
 springy in center and golden brown, about 1 hour 20 minutes.  Cool
 cake completely.
 Beat cream, sugar, and coffee powder until peaks form.  Spread
 mixture over cooled cake.
 Garnish cake with chocolate curls.