Chocolate Cheesecake

Name: Chocolate Cheesecake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 125 g digestive biscuits; 50 g very, very soft or melted unsalted butter; 150 g plain chocolate, melted; ½-1 teaspoon lime juice (to taste); 175 ml sour cream; 3 large egg yolks; 3 large eggs; 150 g golden caster sugar; 500 g cream cheese; 50 g very, very soft or melted unsalted butter

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

If you’d ever told me that I’d write a recipe for chocolate cheesecake, I’d have denied it in horror. In theory, the cheesecake purist within me shudders at the idea of something so unorthodox, but for some reason I made one and I found that I shivered only with delight.

Ingredients

125 g digestive biscuits
50 g very, very soft or melted unsalted butter

Cake
Microwave
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4 and put the kettle on to boil.

Process the biscuits and butter together and press into the bottom of the tin, then stick the tin in the fridge until the filling is ready.

Beat the cream cheese until smooth, then mix in the sugar. Add