Chocolate and Coffee Cheesecake
Ingredients
Serves: 10
375g cream cheese
1/2 cup (125g) white sugar
3 eggs, room temperature
90g milk chocolate, coarsely chopped
7 tablespoons thickened cream
2 tablespoons coffee flavoured liqueur
1/2 cup (125ml) whipped cream
30g dark chocolate, grated
Preparation method
Prep: 15 minutes | Cook: 55 minutes
Preheat oven to 150 degrees C.
In a mixing bowl blend cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
Mix in 3 tablespoons cream and the coffee-flavoured liquor. Pour into an 20cm glass pie dish.
In a small saucepan melt the chocolate with remaining 4 tablespoons of cream.
Drizzle chocolate in a spiral pattern over filling. Stir lightly with tip of table knife to achieve a marbling effect.
Set the pie dish in a larger dish with water that comes halfway up side of pie dish.
Bake at 150 degrees C until firm in the centre; about 55 minutes. Cool completely then refrigerate covered with plastic wrap, overnight.
Garnish with whipped cream piped or dolloped around edges and shaved chocolate in centre.