Chocolate Cheesecake – Bookalokal

My second time hosting a Bookalokal dinner (this time, without the murder mystery theme and starter recipe can be found here from yesterdays post) and since I am a *slave* to cheesecake’s…. I figured that I should try to make a new variation on a firm favourite!

Previous cheesecake recipes that I have tried, include:

so this Chocolate Cheesecake just slots right in 🙂 (Recipe found in one of the *magazine slips* but unfortunately nothing on the page indicates which magazine or issue the recipe is from… *sorry*)

Chocolate Cheesecake

300g speculoos biscuits, crushed (their recipe calls for chocolate digestives – but I liked the Brussels influence :))

85g melted butter

110ml double cream

2x 300g soft cream cheese

2 Tablespoons cocoa, sifted

2 eggs

85g caster sugar

zest & juice of 1 orange

150g chocolate (OPTIONAL – to decorate)

Stir crushed biscuits into butter and press into tin
Chill for 15minutes
In a food processor, blitz 50ml double cream with the cream cheese, cocoa, eggs and sugar until smooth
Stir in the orange juice and most of the zest & mix
Pour into a greased tin and bake at 160C for 40minutes
Turn off the oven and leave the cake inside to cool for 1hr, then place in fridge to chill
Use potato peeler to peel flakes & curls of chocolate carefully
Whip remaining cream and pipe onto the cake and scatter remaining flaked orange and remaining orange zest to decorate (I never did this… and it still turned out just fine!)