White Chocolate Cheesecake

23 Jan, 2010

Yesterday I woke up with a sudden desire to bake a white chocolate cheesecake. I have no idea why this should happen – I’m not even all that fond of white chocolate and seldom cook cheesecake, but the idea wouldn’t go away. I trawled through my cookbooks until I found something basic to work with and then set about adapting it for my favourite kitchen gadget – the Thermomix.
This recipe came from “5 of the Best” by Valli Little, an ABC delicious. cookbook and was originally for 2 10cm x 4cm springform pans. Valli suggests serving with berries, mangoes and passionfruit pulp, but next time I make it I will swirl some dark chocolate ganache through it – I have been a slave to good quality dark chocolate for most of my life and find that it improves almost anything!!
My smallest springform was 18cm x 9cm so I extended the cooking time vaguely – this could do with some fine tuning as mine was a little over-done.

Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: Amanda McInerney of www.lambsearsandhoney.com

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 35 mins

Total time: 50 mins

Serves: 8

Serve with fresh, seasonal fruit or, to make it even more indulgent, swirl some dark chocolate ganache through it.

Ingredients

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30 gm butter
110 gm Granita biscuits
[b]FILLING[/b]
75 gm white choc bits
250 gm cream cheese
110 gm caster sugar
1 egg
60 ml thin cream
– grate chocolate speed 8/5 seconds, add rest of ingredients and whizz speed 5/15 seconds.
Pour over refrigerated crust and bake in 160C preheated oven for 35 minutes. Turn off oven and allow to cool, then refrigerate until firm.

Instructions

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Crush biscuits into fine crumbs using a food processor, or put them in a plastic bag and bash them to bits with a rolling pin.
Melt the butter and add to crumbs, combining well.
In Thermomix – melt butter at 70C/speed 1 for 1 minute, add biscuits, crush and mix speed 5/5 seconds.
Press into prepared pan and refrigerate for 10 minutes.[br]
[b]FILLING[/b][br]
Grate the chocolate finely, add to the rest of the ingredients and combine well.
In Thermomix – – grate chocolate speed 8/5 seconds, add rest of ingredients and whizz speed 5/15 seconds.
Pour over refrigerated crust and bake in 160C preheated oven for 35 minutes.
Turn off oven and allow to cool, then refrigerate until firm.