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Chocolate Orange Cheesecake

Chocolate orange cheesecake with a biscuit base and orange syrup

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/chocolate-orange-cheesecake-2 • Posted by Cat Morley

Complete your Easter feast with an indulgent chocolate orange cheesecake infused with Demijohn Chocolate Orange Cream Liqueur.

You will need

Project Budget
Reasonably Priced

Time

1 h 00

Difficulty

Nice & Simple
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Description

Complete your Easter feast with an indulgent chocolate orange cheesecake infused with Demijohn Chocolate Orange Cream Liqueur.

Instructions

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

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

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    Melt down the butter in a sauce pan.

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    Pour the melted butter into the biscuit crumbs.

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

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

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    Put the icing sugar and cream cheese in a bowl.

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    Whisk together until smooth.

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

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    Mix the melted chocolate into the cream cheese.

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    Add the Chocolate Orange liqueur.

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

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    Pour the cream cheese over the biscuit base.

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

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    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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    Simmer the syrup until it begins to thicken.

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