Cranberry Cheesecake Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 pound (about 4 and 2/3 cups) fresh or frozen Cranberries
• 1 and 1/3 cups superfine sugar
• 1 orange to make 1/3 cup fresh orange juice from orange
• Zest of 4 oranges coarsely chopped
• 2 pounds cream cheese (if you can get in a two pound chunk from your local deli it is usually much better)
• 1 and 1/3 cup superfine sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs (less than 1 package?)
• 1/3 cup vanilla wafer crumbs (about 10 wafers)
• 1/4 cup ginger snaps
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter melted (1/4 stick)
• 1 cup plus 3 teaspoons cranberry filling 1/4 cup Chocolate Syrup
• 2 cups sour cream
• 1/3 cup superfine sugar
• 1 teaspoon 2X vanilla extract
• 1 cup superfine sugar
• 1/2 cup cold water
• 1 and 3/4 cups cranberry filling
• 3 teaspoons minced orange peel (use remaining orange zest)
• 4 naked oranges (the ones you zested yesterday will work)