Double chocolate cheesecake

Name: Double chocolate cheesecake
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 85 grams hot melted butter, plus a little extra for greasing; 14 plain chocolate digestives, finely crushed; 3 x 300g packs full-fat Philadelphia cheese, at room temperature; 200 grams golden caster sugar; 4 Tbsps cocoa, sifted; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 3 Tbsps Tia Maria; 3 larges eggs; 284 milliliters pot soured cream; 100 grams bar dark coffee chocolate, melted (we used Lindt Excellence Coffee Intense); 2 Tbsps milk; 284 milliliters pot double cream

Double chocolate cheesecake takes roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes from beginning to end. This recipe serves 16. One portion of this dish contains approximately 4g of protein, 27g of fat, and a total of 373 calories. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe from BBC Good Food requires milk, vanillan extract, pot soured cream, and golden caster sugar. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free diet. If you like this recipe, take a look at these similar recipes: Double Chocolate Cheesecake, PHILADELPHIA Double-Chocolate Cheesecake, and Double Chocolate Cheesecake Cups.

Instructions

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas

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Line the base of a 25cm springform tin with baking parchment.

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Base

Mix the melted butter and biscuit crumbs until well blended, then press firmly onto the base of the tin.

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Butter

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Bake for 10 mins.

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Turn oven temperature up to 240C/fan 220C/gas

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Beat the cream cheese and sugar with an electric whisk until smooth and creamy, then whisk in the cocoa, vanilla, Tia Maria, eggs, soured cream and half the melted chocolate. Stir enough milk into the remaining chocolate to make a sauce consistency, then set aside until ready to decorate the cheesecake.

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Cream Cheese

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Tia Maria

Vanilla

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Milk

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Whisk

Put a little melted butter on some kitchen paper and use it to butter the sides of the cake tin.

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Butter

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Pour in the cheese mixture, then smooth the top.

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Bake for 10 mins, then turn the heat down to 110C/fan 90C/gas for 25-30 mins. The filling should be set, but with a wobble in the centre. Turn off the oven, open the door a crack, then leave the cheesecake to cool in the oven for 2 hrs. Chill until ready to serve.

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To decorate the cheesecake, carefully remove it from the tin and strip the lining paper from the base. Lightly whip the cream until it just holds its shape, then swirl it on top and drizzle with the reserved chocolate sauce, rippling the sauce through the cream with the end of a spoon.

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Serve as is or pile with chocolate curls. To make the chocolate curls: run a swivel potato peeler firmly down the smooth back of a slab of chocolate so that curls of chocolate flake away from the bar.

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Servings:

85grams

hot melted butter, plus a little extra for greasing 14

plain chocolate digestives, finely crushed 3

x 300g packs full-fat Philadelphia cheese, at room temperature 200grams

golden caster sugar 4Tbsps

cocoa, sifted 2teaspoons

vanilla extract 3Tbsps

Tia Maria 3larges

eggs 284milliliters

pot soured cream 100grams

bar dark coffee chocolate, melted (we used Lindt Excellence Coffee Intense)2Tbsps

milk 284milliliters

pot double cream

Recommended wine: Ruby Port

Chocolate Cheesecake can be paired with Ruby Port. Ruby port has enough sweetness and boldness to hold up to the chocolate cheesecake. One wine you could try is NV Hunt Country Vineyards Ruby Port Estate Bottled. It has 4 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 17 dollars.