As cheesecake recipes go this has got to be the ultimate! Its sooo easy to make, and tastes amazing! Surely that 2012 diet is over by now!
Thick, rich orangey chocolate with a biscuit base, served with a large dollop of vanilla ice-cream. If you like chocolate, you won’t find anything better.
Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients for the biscuit base:
75g digestive biscuits, crushed
75g gingernut biscuits, crushed
75g butter, melted
Ingredients for the filling:
500g of Chocolate Orange bashed into bits
65g butter
1/2 vanilla pod
500g cream cheese
50g caster sugar
1 clementine
a big scoop of vanilla ice-cream
What to do:
First: Mix the crushed digestives and the ginger biscuits in with the melted butter and press the mixture into the base of 23cm cake tin, one that has a removable outter ring.
Second: Put the orange chocolate, t he butter and the vanilla pod into a heatproof bowl and set over a pan of “simmering” water until the chocolate and butter have melted.
WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MELT THE CHOCOLATE ANY OTHER WAY
Finally: Scoop the mixture on the top of the biscuit base and chill in the frisge overnight. When you are ready to serve, remove it carefully from the tin. Peel your clemintine and place sections around the edge.
Serve with ice-cream or eat as is!