Tiger Stripes Cheesecake
- For Biscuit Base
- 50 g crushed Oreo cookies, cream removed
- 50 g crushed digestive biscuits
- 40 g melted butter (MW on high for 1 minute)
- For Cheese Filling
- 500 g cream cheese
- 100 g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 100 ml skim milk
- 235 g sour cream
- 1 tablespoon rum
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 75 g 70% valrhona guanaja in beans dark chocolate (melted via double boil)
- Mix biscuit crumbs with melted butter. Toss biscuit crumbs into a lined 18cm cake pan and press firmly. Bake biscuit base at 160C for 12 minutes. Cool for use later.
- Cream cheese with sugar till smooth and creamy.
- Add in egg one at at time and beat till well blended.
- Using low speed, beat in the sour cream and milk.
- Divide batter into 2 equal portions of about 490g per portion.
- Stir melted chocolate and rum into 1 portion of batter till well blended.
- Add lemon juice into the other portion of the batter.
- Spoon 1 ladle full of plain batter into the middle of the biscuit base, then 1 ladle full of the chocolate batter on top of the plain batter. Alternate between the two batters till all batter is used up.
- Bake at 160C for 50 - 60 minutes till the circumference of the cake is cooked. The centre of the cake could be wobbly. Remove cake and cool for 1 hour. Chilled cake for at least 3 hours before serving, or overnight for better flavour.
oreo cookies, digestive biscuits, butter, for cheese, cream cheese, caster sugar, eggs, milk, sour cream, rum, lemon juice, chocolate
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/tiger-stripes-cheesecake-189969 (may not work)