Another re-do…always a winner, I made this yesterday for a girlfriends Birthday Bonanza….Well recieved on all counts and rating highly on my Facebook page to appear in The Book! How do you feel about that? Let me know!
NEED:
200g chocolate cream filled biscuits
40g butter
400g white chocolate in pieces
4 eggs
500g Cream cheese
50g caster sugar
1 tsp Heilala vanilla bean paste
Ganache;
20g good quality raspberry jam, (pushed through sieve to remove seeds)
100g dark chocolate
50g cream
Fresh or frozen raspberries to garnish
DO: Preheat oven to 180°C and line the base of a 16cm spring form cake tin with paper.
Place biscuits and butter into Thermomix bowl and mill 15 sec/speed 6.
Press into prepared tin and bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
Place white chocolate into Thermomix bowl and chop 6 sec/speed 8.
Scrape down sides of bowl and melt 10 min/50°C/speed 1.
Add cream cheese, sugar, vanilla bean paste and eggs.
Beat 1 min/speed 6. Scrape down sides of bowl and repeat. Pour into biscuit base.
Place on top of a pair of chopsticks in the Varoma. (Chopsticks will help the steam circulate.)
Rinse bowl and fill with water to 1L mark.
Cook cheesecake 60 min/Varoma/speed 3. Chill until completely set in the centre. It will be slightly wobbly until cold.
Ganache; Place jam, dark chocolate and cream into Thermomix bowl and melt 5 min/50°C/speed 1. Place raspberries on top of ganache to decorate. Serve with additional whipped cream if desired.