Chocolate Cheesecake Tiramisu

Ingredients:

375g cream cheese

500ml thickened cream

1/2 cup caster sugar

400g savioardi biscuits

1/2 cup good quality drinking chocolate

1.5 cups hot water

1 tsp vanilla extract

100 g chocolate

50ml cream, extra

Method

Place your cream cheese in a bowl and whip until soft and fluffy.  Add the thickened cream and caster sugar and whip until reaches still peaks.  Set aside.

In another bowl, mix your drinking chocolate with water and vanilla esssence, ensure all well combined to make your chocolate syrup.

Spread about 1/4 cup of the cream mixture on the bottom your serving dish, and then dunk your savioardi biscuits in for about 15 seconds until you can feel them taking on the syrup. (I let my smallest frills do this - word to the  wise, remove t-shirts first - chocolate goes everywhere!)

Place on top of your cream mixture in your serving dish.  Place them close together.
Continue this until you've filled the dish with one layer.

Cover this layer with 1/2 of the remaining cream mixture. 

Add another layer of dipped savioardi biscuits and then cover with the remaining cream mixture.

Melt your 100g chocolate (I do mine in the microwave 50% power in 2 x 1 minute intervals, stirring inbetween)  Mix through the extra 50ml cream and it will become smooth and glossy.

Roughly spoon over your mixture.  Try very hard to avoid little fingers swiping the chocolate. (check out Laura's mouth - chocolate already swiped from last process! And yes, the shirts had been removed from here on in!)

Crush left over savioardi biscuits and crumble over the top.

Refrigerate for at least 3 hours before serving.