Chocolate Cheesecake Bars!
Delicious baked chocolate cheesecake bars with a biscuit base, creamy and delicious chocolate cheesecake filling, and a chocolate drizzle topping!
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 45 min
- Yield
- 15 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 400 g digestives
- 175 g unsalted butter
- 300 g dark chocolate
- 750 g full-fat soft cream cheese
- 200 g caster sugar
- 4 medium eggs
- 30 g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 300 ml double cream
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 50 g chocolate curls
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 200ºc/180ºfan and line a 9x13" baking tray with parchment paper.
- 2
Blitz the biscuits to a fine crumb.
- 3
Melt the butter in a separate bowl, and then mix into the biscuit. Press the mixture into the bottom of the lined tin.
- 4
Bake the biscuit base in the oven for 10 minutes.
- 5
Once the base has been baked, lower the temp of the oven to 180ºc/160ºfan - leave the biscuit base on the side for now.
- 6
In a bowl, melt the dark chocolate until smooth - I do this in the microwave in short bursts.
- 7
In a new large bowl, add the full-fat soft cream cheese and beat until smooth.
- 8
Add the eggs, beating well as you go, and add in the caster sugar. Beat this until combined.
- 9
Add in the cocoa powder and vanilla extract and beat again to combine.
- 10
Fold through the cooled melted dark chocolate until smooth.
- 11
Add in the double cream, and fold again until smooth.
- 12
Spread the mixture over the baked biscuit base. Bake the cheesecake bars in the oven for 35 minutes.
- 13
Leave the cheesecake bars to cool in the oven with the door slightly adjar, for an hour
- 14
Remove the tin from the oven, and set the cheesecake bars in the fridge for a minimum of 6 hours.
- 15
Once the cheesecake bars have set, remove carefully from the tin.
- 16
Drizzle over some dark chocolate for decoration, and sprinkle on some chocolate curls. Leave this to set and then portion, and enjoy!