Coffee and Chocolate 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

1.

Preheat oven to 150 degrees C.

2.

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.

3.

In a small saucepan melt the chocolate with remaining 4 tablespoons of cream.

4.

Drizzle chocolate in a spiral pattern over filling. Stir lightly with tip of table knife to achieve a marbling effect.

5.

Set the pie dish in a larger dish with water that comes halfway up side of pie dish.

6.

Bake at 150 degrees C until firm in the centre; about 55 minutes. Cool completely then refrigerate covered with plastic wrap, overnight.

7.

Garnish with whipped cream piped or dolloped around edges and shaved chocolate in centre.