Chocolate Cheesecake

Name: Chocolate Cheesecake
Prep time: 45 min
Total time: 3 h 45 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 200 g chocolate chip cookies, crushed; ½ tsp cinnamon; 100 g dark chocolate (70 per cent cocoa); 100 g butter, melted; 1 tbsp Kahlua or Tia Maria liqueur; 225 ml creme fraiche; 1 vanilla pod; 100 g white chocolate; 75 g unrefined demerara sugar; 225 ml double cream

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
4 hr

Appears in

The French Kitchen

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2002

About

It takes willpower to wait out the three-hour chilling time for this exceptional cheesecake I find that I need an extra 200g of those chocolate-chip cookies to help me through it.

Ingredients

200 g chocolate chip cookies, crushed
½ tsp cinnamon
100

Europe
France
Cake
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Put the chocolate chip cookie crumbs in a bowl, add the cinnamon and melted butter, mix well and tip into a 22cm push-up-bottom or springform tin. Spread the mixture out evenly. Chill in the fridge until hard and set.

Melt the dark chocolate in a bain-marie (in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water). Stir in the Kahlua or Tia Maria.

Grate the white chocolate. Cut the va