uh oh

so here's a fall recipe i wish i'd never found!! if you're looking for something really good and have better self control than i do, check it out, yo! i found it on recipe zaar.. f.y.i: i had to cook it longer than the time recommended and i also had to make more crust to fill the pan.





Ingredients
1 cup vanilla wafer crumbs (about 30 wafers)
1/4 cup cocoa
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick) or margarine, melted (1/2 stick)
3 packages cream cheese, softened (8 oz. each)
1 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, ground
1 cup canned pumpkin
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups mini chocolate chips
semi-sweet chocolate leaves (optional)

Directions
1 Heat oven to 350'F.
2 In medium bowl, combine crumbs, cocoa and powdered sugar; stir in butter.
3 Press mixture onto bottom and 1/2 inch up side of 9-inch springform pan.
4 Bake 8 minutes; cool slightly.
5 increase oven temperature to 400 F.
6 In large mixer bowl, beat cream cheese, granulated sugar; flour and pumpkin pie spice until well blended.
7 Add pumpkin and eggs; beat until well blended.
8 Stir in small chocolate chips; pour into prepared Crust. Bake 10 minutes.
9 Reduce oven temperature to 250 F; continue baking 50 minutes.
10 Remove from oven to cooling rack; loosen cake from rim of pan.
11 Cool completely; remove rim.
12 Refrigerate. Garnish with chocolate leaves, if desired.
13 Cover; refrigerate leftovers.