How to make Jade's Chocolate Cheesecake:
Quantity |
Ingredients |
| For the cheesecake: |
|
| 125g (4½oz) |
bourbon biscuits |
| 65g (2½oz) |
butter |
| 100g (3½oz) |
melted good-quality dark chocolate minimum 70 per cent cocoa solids |
| 200g (7oz) |
full-fat cream cheese |
| 400g (14oz) |
ricotta |
| 75g (2½oz) |
75g/2½oz golden caster sugar |
| 3 |
eggs |
| 40g (1½oz) |
cocoa powder |
| 125g (4½oz) |
good-quality Christmas pudding, cooked, crumbled into pieces (optional) |
| For the sauce: |
|
| 125g (4½oz) |
good-quality dark chocolate, minimum 70 per cent cocoa solids |
| 125ml (4½fl oz) |
double cream |
| 15g (½oz) |
butter |
| To serve: |
|
| |
good-quality chocolate, grated |
| |
cocoa powder, for dusting |
| |
clotted cream, to serve |
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Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C/ 350F/Gas 4.
2. For the cheesecake, crush the bourbon biscuits into crumbs and place into a bowl. Pour over the melted butter. Press into a 14cm/6in spring-form cake tin to form the base.
3. Place the chocolate in a bowl over barely simmering water and melt, making sure the water doesn't touch the bottom of the bowl.
4. Place the cream cheese, ricotta and sugar in a food processor and blend until smooth.
5. Next add the eggs, then the cocoa powder and the melted chocolate. Stir in the Christmas pudding, if using.
6. Spoon the mixture onto the base. Place the cake in the oven and cook for about one hour, or until cake is springy to the touch. Allow to cool in the tin.
7. When cool, turn out of the tin and top with chopped or grated chocolate and a dusting of cocoa.
8. For the sauce, place the chocolate and cream in a clean bowl over a pan of simmering water and melt, making sure the water doesn't touch the bottom of the bowl. When melted, whisk in the butter. The sauce must be prepared just before the cake is served, because it can't be reheated.
9. Serve large slices with a big spoonful of sauce and a dollop of clotted cream. Dust the edge of the plate with cocoa.
Thanks to
Jade Fellows from the United Kingdom for submitting this chocolate cheesecake recipe.
Added on 31 March 2008.
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