Recipe: Mint Chocolate Cheesecake

This Christmas we all pulled together to celebrate Christmas Day. I volunteered to make dessert and this year, I decided to make a Mint Chocolate Cheesecake.

Last year, I cooked the entire dinner for six people and this year it was great to have others involved.

Here is how you can make yours:

Ingredients:
300g Oreo Cookies
80g Butter
750g Cream Cheese
75g caster sugar
2tspn gelatine
1/2 cup of hot water
2tspn of mint essence
100g white chocolate (melted and slightly cooled)
100g dark chocolate (melted and slightly cooled)
600ml of thick whipping cream

How To:

Blitz the Oreo Cookies in a food processor
Melt the butter and mix with the blitzed Oreo Cookies
Press into a baking tin and place in the fridge to set

Using a electric whisk, cream the caster sugar and cream cheese until well combined
Mix the gelatine with hot water until dissolved and mix into the cream cheese
Divide the mixture into two separate bowls, 2/3 (Bowl 1) & 1/3 (Bowl 2)
In bowl 1, add 400ml whipping cream and fold in. Stir in the mint essence and cooled white chocolate
In bowl 2, add 200ml of whipping cream and fold in. Add the dark chocolate
Remove the chilled base from the fridge and add the contents of the bowl 1 to the chilled base
Add the contents of bowl 2 on top
Using a skewer, marble the top layer through the second layer of the cheesecake
Grate dark chocolate over the top of the cheesecake and chill in the fridge for 2-3hours