Recipe: Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake

Recipe: Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake

This is my husband's favorite cheesecake!

Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake

2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs

1/4 cup margarine, melted

2 8 oz. pkgs. Light Philadelphia Brand Neufchatel Cheese, softened

3/4 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

3 eggs

1 cup canned pumpkin

3/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

Combine crumbs and margarine; press onto bottom and sides of a 9" springform pan.

Combine Neufchatel cheese, 1/2 cup sugar and vanilla, mixing at medium speed on electric mixer until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Reserve 1 cup Neufchatel cheese mixture; add pumpkin, remaining sugar and spices to remaining Neufchatel cheese mixture. Mix well. Layer half of pumpkin mixture and half of Neufchatel cheese mixture over crust; repeat layers. Cut through batter with knife several times for marble effect. 

Bake at 350° for 55 minutes. Loosen cake from rim of pan, cool before removing rim of pan. Chill. 

10 to 12 servings.