Hot Baked Chocolate Cheesecake

• 4 oz. chilled butter
• 5 oz. flour
• 1 oz. icing sugar
• 2 to 3 drops vanilla essence
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• 8 oz. soft light brown sugar
• 2 to 3 vanilla essence
• 2 oz. cocoa
• 4 lg. eggs
• Sieved icing sugar

1. To make the base, mix all base ingredients together in a food processor until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
2. Alternatively, cut the butter into the flour and icing sugar with a knife.
3. Rub in with your fingertips until it reaches the bread crumb stage.
4. Press mixture around the base of a 20-22.5 cm (8-9-inch) flan dish.
5. Chill the flan in the fridge for 30 minutes.
6. Bake in preheated 180C (350F) oven, or the bottom right oven of a four-door Aga, for 25-30 minutes, until the pastry is pale golden brown.
7. Remove from the oven, and leave to cool while you make the filling.
8. Put the cream cheese into a blender or food processor and whizz, gradually adding the sugar, then the vanilla essence, cocoa, 2 whole eggs and 2 egg yolks.
9. Blend until smooth.
10. Alternatively, mix all the ingredients very thoroughly in a bowl.
11. Whisk the remaining 2 egg whites until they are stiff, and, using a large metal spoon, fold them quickly and thoroughly through the chocolate mixture.
12. Pour into the cooked pastry shell, and bake in oven, or the bottom right oven of a four-door Aga, for 35-40 minutes, until set.
13. Dust with icing sugar to serve.

butter, flour, icing sugar, vanilla essence, cream cheese, brown sugar, vanilla, cocoa, eggs, icing sugar

Taken from www.foodgeeks.com/recipes/2412 (may not work)