Chocolate and Orange Cheesecake

‎Chocolate and Orange Cheesecake

Base

• Biscuits (digestives) 200g
• Butter 114g
• Sugar 50g

Filling

• Cream cheese 700g
• Cream 375ml
• cornflour 4 Tbsp
• Orange 1
• Orange essence ½ tsp
• Eggs 3
• Dark chocolate 150g

Ganache

• Dark chocolate 80g
• Cream 90g

Candied Orange

• Orange
• Water 150ml
• Sugar 150g

Pre-heat the oven 180C

We make a base grinding the biscuits, adding the sugar and pouring the melted butter, we mix it and spread it evenly on the base of the cake tin (springform / 23cm – 9”).

We melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a sauce pan of simmering water (make sure the bowl doesn't touch the water), stir until the chocolate is melted and set aside.

Meanwhile the chocolate is cooling down with an electric wisk we mix together the cream cheese and the cream, then we add the zest of an orange and the juice too, to give it more flavour we add the orange essence, mix everything together and start adding the eggs, one at a time until they are fully incorporated. When everything is mixed, we fold the chocolate into the mix and we pour everything into the cake tin.

We bake it for about 50 minutes and leave it to cool completely.

Meanwhile the cake is being bake, we can do the candied orange, first we have to peel the orange with as little white as possible and the we cut thin slices. We put them into a saucepan of simmering water for about 2 minutes, this way we remove any residual bitterness, remove using a slotted spoon and drain well. Now combine equal amounts of water and sugar, in a saucepan and stir over low heat until the sugar dissolves, add the orange zest and simmer for about 10 minutes or until the mixture is syrupy and the zest translucent.

Once the cake is cool, we made the ganache, we melt the chocolate like we did for the filling and when is melted we pour the cream and mix with a wire whisk until fully combine, allow it to cool down a bit and then spread it over the cake.

Now we decorate the cake with the candied orange zest.