Hot Baked Chocolate Cheesecake

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

  • About

You can eat this cheesecake cold, but it is much nicer hot – it keeps warm very satisfactorily for 20 minutes or so in a low oven. It is nicer slightly undercooked – you don’t taste the cream cheese. It is a heavenly pie and, as you can see, extremely quick to put together.

Ingredients

For the base

  • 4 oz/112 g chilled butter
  • 5 oz/140

Method

To make the base, whiz all the ingredients for the base together in a food processor until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Alternatively, cut the butter into the flour and icing sugar with a knife, then rub in with your fingers until it reaches the breadcrumb stage. Press this mixture round the base of a 9-inch/23-cm flan dish.

Chill the flan in the fridge for 30 minutes, then