Saturday, May 5, 2012

Tim Tam Cheesecake

This is my 'go to' desert recipe. I've made it many many times and it always goes down well.

The actual recipe is for Oreos and is a 'cookies and cream' cheesecake but the photos that I have from last week are made with tim tams and I'm also keep to try is with snickers... mm.  Basically I would think you could sub out the oreos/tim tams with anything similar that you would like.

Enjoy!

Tim tam Cheesecake.
250g plain chocolate biscuits
150g butter, melted
2t gelatine
1/4 cup water
375g package of cream cheese - softened
300ml thickened cream
1t vanilla extract
1/2 cup cater sugar
180g white eating chocolate - melted
150g of tim tams (or oreos or what every you like) - cut into chunks.
50g dark/milk eating chocolate - melted.

1.  Line the base of a 23cm springform tin with baking paper.

2. Blend of process the plain chocolate biscuits until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.  Add the butter; process until just combine.  Using your hand, press the biscuit mixture evenly over the base and 3cm up the side of the prepared tin, cover and refrigerate for 20 minutes or until the base has 'set'.



3.  Sprinkle the gelatine over the water in a small heatproof jug, then stand the jug in a small saucepan of simmering water.  Stir until the gelatine dissolves; allow to cool for 5 mins.

4. Beat cheese, cream, vanilla extract andsugar in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth.  Stir in gelatine mixture and white chocolate; fold in the chunks of tim tams.  Pour the cheesecake mixture in tin, cover and refrigerate for about 3 hours until set (I always do this over night (:)

5.  Drizzle with melted dark/milk chocolate to serve.




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