In our opinion, there
is never a bad time for a piece of chocolate heaven! Well, us girls at Cellardoor certainly don’t think so and not wanting to pass up an occasion to treat our taste buds to something sweet, we have had no better excuse. Last week was National Chocolate Week after all!
Inspired by the rich chocolate cream of Roald Dahl’s
Bruce Bogtrotter cake and Recipe Girl’s cheesecake cake: we created our very
own chocolate heaven in celebration.
Ingredients
Cheesecake
400g soft cream cheese
2 tbsp cocoa powder
200g sugar
140g cooking chocolate
Chocolate Cake
140g sugar
170g self raising
flour
110g butter
1 tbsp cocoa powder
2 eggs
200g cooking chocolate
Milk (as needed)
Topping
200g heavy cream
200g cooking chocolate
Assorted chocolates
To make the cheesecake
(based on Recipe Girl’s Chocolate Cheesecake)
-
Preheat
oven to 160C
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As
recommended by Recipe Girl, put a large roasting tray in the oven
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Grease an
8 inch cake tin and line and grease baking sheet inside and make sure the
outside and bottom of the pan is wrapped in tin foil (to stop water seeping through
into the cheesecake)
-
Melt the
chocolate and put aside
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Mix the
soft cream cheese until it is creamy then blend in the sugar and cocoa powder
-
Add in the
melted chocolate and mix well
-
Pour the
cheesecake mixture into the cake tin and then place that into the roasting tray
-
Pour an
inch of hot water into the tray and put back into the oven
-
Bake for
45 mins
-
Let the
cake cool and then freeze (overnight preferably)
To make the chocolate
cake
-
Preheat
oven to 160C
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Cream the
butter and sugar until light and fluffy
-
Add the
eggs and beat into the mixture, separately
-
Add the
cocoa powder, self raising flour and mix well
-
Melt the
chocolate and pour into the rest of the mixture and blend
-
Add milk
as needed and stir so that it is smooth
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Pour into
a 10 inch cake tin (make sure this is greased and lined with baking paper)
-
Bake for 1
½ hours
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Cool
To make the topping
(taken from Roald Dahl Bruce Bogtrotter's cake)
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Pour the
cream and chocolate into a heavy based saucepan
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On the
lowest heat melt the chocolate and stir into the cream
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Let it
cool and pop into the fridge for an hour then decorate cake
Assembling the cake
-
Cut the
main cake in half using a serrated knife
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Place the
cheesecake in the middle of the two halves of cake
-
Decorate
the top of the cake with the chocolate cream
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Place chocolates
(cut in half) in the middle of the cake where there should be space on the
around the cheesecake layer
-
Put any
left over on top
-
Eat your
chocolate heaven with ice-cream or whipped cream!!
1 love letters:
This actually looks like the best thing ever!!! Must try and make it :) mmm
xo
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