One more for you Lea!

Here's a very good, rich and expensive to make recipe from Annemarie's
Personal Cook Book, Bartholomew house, 1968.

2 pkgs. (8.5 oz.each) chocolate cookies 1/2 t. cinnamon
1/2 cup butter, melted 1 cup sugar
4 eggs 1 1/2 lbs. cream cheese, softened
16 oz. semisweet chocolate 1 t. vanilla extract
2 T. cocoa 3 cups sour cream
1/4 cup sweet butter, melted

In a blender, or with a rolling pin, crush the chocolate cookies. You
should have about 2 cups. Mix with cinnamon and the half cup of melted
butter. Press crumbs firmly to the bottom and side of a 9" spring form
pan. Chill.

Beat sugar with eggs until light & fluffy. Add the cream cheese
gradually, beating well after each addition. Melt the chocolate and
add to the egg mixture along with the vanilla, cocoa, and sour cream,
beating constantly. Add the melted sweet butter. Mix well. Pour the
mixture into the chilled pie shell and bake in a 350 degree F. oven
for 45 minutes. Chill overnight in the refrigerator.

To serve, remove from spring form pan and decorate with chocolate
shavings or candied violets and whipped cream. This is a very rich
cake so serve in small slices. Serves about 20.

Whenever I have made this cake I get rave reviews!!

Sharon S.