Mulled Orange & Chocolate Cheesecake

Mulled Orange & Chocolate Cheesecake

Using Cottage Delight Mulled Orange All Butter Curd

Prep: 10 minutes Cook: Overnight chill time Serves: 12

Ingredients

Biscuit Base

• 300g bourbon Biscuits

• 150g unsalted Butter

Cheesecake Filling

• 600g cream Cheese (full fat)

• 300ml double Cream

• 75g icing Sugar

• 300g Terry's Chocolate Orange

• 1 x 305g jar Cottage Delight Mulled Orange All Butter Curd (8 heaped tbsp)

• 1 orange zest

Decoration

• Orange zest

• Orange slices, thinly sliced

• 2tbsp crème fraiche 

Method

For the Biscuit Base

• Melt the butter in the microwave on short bursts until fully melted.

• Blitz the biscuits in a food processor to a small crumb or in a bag with the end of a rolling pin, add the butter, and mix until it is combined well. 

• Tip into a 20cm deep springform tin and press down firmly – chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

For the Cheesecake Filling

• Melt the 300g chocolate orange in a bowl over a pan of gently simmering water, stirring gently or microwave in short bursts until fully melted.

• Mix together the cream cheese and Icing sugar until thick and whip up the double cream in a separate bowl – fold the mixtures together, and then fold through the melted chocolate and 2 heaped tbsp Mulled Orange All Butter Curd. Zest in the orange.

• Evenly spread 6 heaped tbsp Mulled Orange All Butter Curd over the chilled biscuit base.

• Pour the cream cheese mix on to the curd layer, smooth over, cover, and chill in the fridge for 6 hours, or preferably overnight.

• Top with sliced oranges, orange zest and crème fraiche in the centre. 

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