Chocolate Orange Cheesecake

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  Step 1

  Smash the digestive biscuits into a fine crumble with a mortar and pestle.

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  Step 2

  Grate in the zest from one of the oranges an then squeeze in the juice.

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  Step 3

  Melt down the butter in a sauce pan.

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  Step 4

  Pour the melted butter into the biscuit crumbs.

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  Step 5

  Mix until well combined. The chocolate will melt into the butter.

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  Step 6

  Tightly pack the crumbs into the bottom of a cake tin and chill for an hour.

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  Step 7

  Put the icing sugar and cream cheese in a bowl.

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  Step 8

  Whisk together until smooth.

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  Step 9

  Break a third of the chocolate orange into a bowl and melt in the microwave.

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  Step 10

  Mix the melted chocolate into the cream cheese.

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  Step 11

  Add the Chocolate Orange liqueur.

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  Step 12

  Whisk in the cocoa and then beat in the eggs, one at a time.

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  Step 13

  Pour the cream cheese over the biscuit base.

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  Step 14

  Bake in an oven at 180'C for 50 minutes until firm.

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  Step 15

  Grate the second orange into a bowl and put to one side. Squeeze the juice from the orange into a pan and stir in the sugar, heating gently until dissolved.

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  Step 16

  Simmer the syrup until it begins to thicken.

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  Step 17

  Pour the syrup over the top of the cake, sprinkle with orange zest and to with the remaining chocolate orange.

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