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O'Ronald's cheesecake recipe
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Ingredients
- 500 g ginger biscuits, crushed
- Few knobs of butter, melted
- 200 g milk chocolate, broken into pieces
- 600 g white chocolate, broken into pieces
- 300 g soft cheese
- 250 g mascarpone cheese
- 200 ml double cream
- Zest of 1 orange, reserve some for the topping
- Juice of ½ lemon
- 50 ml Irish cream liqueur
- Dark chocolate straws
Method
- Mix the ginger-biscuit crumbs with enough melted butter to hold together. Press into a lined loose-bottomed tin and chill for 30 minutes.
- Melt the milk chocolate gently, spread it over the cold base and return the tin to the refrigerator.
- Melt the white chocolate separately. Off the heat, whisk in the soft cheese, mascarpone, cream, orange zest, lemon juice and Irish cream.
- Pour over the base, level and chill for at least 2 hours. Finish with reserved orange zest and serve with the chocolate straws.