Basque Chocolate Cheesecake

Name: Basque Chocolate Cheesecake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 3 pieces Cream Cheese (3 Westacre Cream Cheese Blocks 250g); 1 cup Caster Sugar (1 cup White Mill Caster Sugar); 300 ml Heavy Cream (300ml Farmdale Thickened Cream); ¼ cup All-Purpose Flour (1/4 cup White Mill Plain Flour 1kg); ¼ cup Cacao Powder (1/4 cup Cacao or Cocoa Powder 250g); 1 tsp Coffee (1 tsp Alcafe Gold Classic Instant Coffee 100g); 5 pieces Egg (5 Lodge Farm Eggs); 200 g Dark Chocolate (200g Choceur Dark Chocolate Block 200g)

A dense, baked chocolate cheesecake with a dark chocolate and cocoa base, finished with a crispy top.

70 minFrench

Servings12

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Steps

1Preheat oven to 200°C.
2Place a microwave safe container filled with chocolate in the microwave for a minute until melted.
3Place cream cheese and 5 eggs into the food processor and whizz until smooth.
4Add coffee, sugar, cacao powder and plain flour and whizz again until smooth.
5Mix together with a spoon before adding the melted chocolate in and stir.
6Line a springform pan with baking paper, pouring into the tin.
7Place on middle shelf of oven and bake for 45-60 minutes.
8Turn the oven off and let the cheesecake cool inside for 15 minutes, then move it to your bench to cool for an hour.
9Pop it in the fridge overnight to set.
10When you’re ready to serve, unspring the pan and slice the cake.
11Serve with fresh fruit.