Chocolate Orange Cheesecake

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Ingredients:

Biscuit Base:

  • 300g chocolate or plain digestive biscuits (or graham crackers)
  • 140g butter (salted or unsalted), melted and cooled slightly
Cheesecake Filling:
  • 500g full-fat cream cheese or mascarpone, softened at room temperature
  • 2 x 157g Terry’s chocolate orange (or other orange flavoured chocolate)
  • 300ml double cream (heavy cream), chilled
  • 85g icing sugar, sifted
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Decoration:

  • Terry’s chocolate orange segments – I also grated some over to decorate
  • Whipped cream – approx. 150ml double or whipping cream

Method:


  1. To prepare the base: Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Blitz the biscuits in a food processor to a fine crumb. Add the melted butter and mix until well combined. Tip the biscuit crumbs into a 23cm springform cake tin and press down until firm. Use the back of a spoon of glass to smooth over, place in the refrigerator to chill whilst you make the filling.
  2. To make the cheesecake filling: Melt the chocolate over a bain-marie or in the microwave in 20 second intervals. Leave to cool only for a few minutes – chocolate stills needs to be slightly warm before adding the remaining cheesecake ingredients later to avoid lumps forming. In a medium mixing bowl beat together the cream cheese with the icing sugar and vanilla until softened. In another mixing bowl whisk the cream until soft peaks form.NEXT STEP