Apr

17

Happy Double Chocolate Cheesecake Day!

Filed under: Cakes & biscuits, Desserts, Diary, Photos, Recipes — English Mum @ 10:43 am
 

 

So I don’t know how, but both my children have their birthdays within two weeks of each other.  Maybe it was the bad English summers that sent us indoors in search of better things to do?  Whatever.  First up on the birthday honours is #2 who finally hits double digits (‘Finally, I’ve got double Ds!’  He told me innocently in a somewhat Jordanesque manner).  And in true English Towers fashion, he picked his birthday cake wisely: ‘I’ll have a chocolate cheesecake… no, I’ll have a white chocolate cheesecake… no, I’ll have a dark AND white chocolate cheesecake… with a chocolate biscuit base and… er… more chocolate on top’.  A fine choice.  So here we are, then.  I know I’ve already given you a recipe, but I’ve tweaked it a bit and it’s even more coronary inducing than the last one:

100g butter

300g pack of dark chocolate digestives

500g cream cheese

100g icing sugar

200ml whipping cream

175g bar of good quality dark chocolate

100g good quality white chocolate (I used Tesco White Belgian Chocolate)

Melt the butter in the microwave or in a saucepan and in the meantime smash up your digestives, either by whacking them with a rolling pin or whizzing them in the processor (remember to put the little lid bit on, I got an eyeful of oatmeal) until they’re just crumbs.  Stir the butter into the biscuits then press into the bottom of a springform tin (you’ll never get the bugger out otherwise) and leave to cool.

Now, get two pans of hot water going, and melt the white chocolate in a bowl over one and the dark chocolate over another (reserve a couple of squares of each for the decoration), turning the pans off once the water boils.  Put the cream cheese in a bowl, beat it until smooth then beat in the icing sugar. 

Now, while you’re waiting for the chocolate to cool, draw out your birthday person’s age in big fat letters on a piece of greaseproof paper (or just do circles or stars or something… pah, you can write ‘bum’ on it for all I care) and carefully fill it in with the melted white chocolate.  Make sure they’re thick enough to stand up on their own. 

Now add your cooled chocolate to the cream cheese and icing sugar (bunging in the leftover white chocolate too), stir it in, then whip your cream and fold that in too.  Smooth it over the biscuit base and chill in the fridge for a good few hours until set.  There’s probably a way to swirl the white and dark chocolate in, but the cream needs to be last really as it’s full of air.  I’ll come back to you on that point.

Anyhoo, to serve: remove from tin, finely grate over some white and dark chocolate and add your white chocolate numbers.  Present, with a flourish, to goggle eyed birthday child and smile smugly to oneself as it disappears.

Happy birthday big man xx

22 Comments »

  1. Yes, 10 years since I used to sing ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’ to him while feeding him then he would regurgitate half of it back all over me! Bless, hope you had a superb birthday darling - what a great cake…save a piece for Dad! XXX

    Comment by Grandma — April 17, 2008 @ 11:30 am

  2. Ah, I have a pain in my left arm already. That’s just from reading it. Within weeks of each other, that’s nothin’ I have frienda in England and their (not twins) kids birthdays are on the same day. That day is also the parents’ wedding anneversary.

    Comment by Thriftcriminal — April 17, 2008 @ 11:49 am

  3. Ma: Ah yes, the world’s most regurgitative baby. We spent his entire babyhood floating in a sea of warm upchuck as I seem to recall. Happy days.

    Thrifty: Ah death by chocolate. What could be better? Blimey, that’s really impressive. Do you think she held on to the baby on purpose? He was probably something like 13 months old by the time he was born!

    Comment by englishmuminireland — April 17, 2008 @ 12:51 pm

  4. This sounds like my kind of cheesecake! I like #2!!!!

    Comment by Ruth E — April 17, 2008 @ 1:20 pm

  5. Ruth: The child has a chocolate habit like no other I’ve ever known. He’d have chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner if we let him! He even asked for that Lynx deodorant that supposed to smell like chocolate (it kind of does, actually!) x

    Comment by englishmuminireland — April 17, 2008 @ 4:08 pm

  6. Oh wow yum! Not a big fan of EU style cheesecakes (read unbaked) but I might make an exception for this fantastic concoction! Lucky boy indeed!

    Comment by Deborah — April 17, 2008 @ 5:01 pm

  7. God, we must be related … I crave for chocolate !!, seem to be getting off the habit… it melts over here!

    Also,just to ‘out-do’ the other stories.. I used to work with a girl who shared her birthday with her husband… and yes, you guessed it… the first born was also born on the same day …. Now thats a P-A-R-T-Y !!!!

    Comment by Moon — April 17, 2008 @ 5:18 pm

  8. Happy Birthday to #2 :-) And what a lucky kid - to have a mum who makes such fantastic cakes :-) It looks like the best chocolatey thing on earth. Yum!

    (My brother has a September birthday and we all know what that means my parents were up to around the Christmas beforehand. Ew.)

    Comment by wee jen — April 17, 2008 @ 6:44 pm

  9. Deborah: I must admit i thought the chocolate wouldn’t work well with the cream cheese and I think it could do with some cherries or something, but hey, it’s chocolatey and gooey. What ten year old wouldn’t like it!

    Moon: I can’t work out what relation you are to him: Great Uncle? Nah, sounds far too boring (’oh Mum, do we HAVE to go and see Great Uncle Moon? He smells funny’). And stop out-doing. It’s vulgar.

    Wee One: Thanks! And yes, ew. Too much information!!

    Comment by englishmuminireland — April 17, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

  10. Excellent taste, #2! Happy Birthdy and here’s your present - ( I hope) If you can get Dove ice cream there, get some “Unconditonal Chocolate” flavor - you will swoon! And with that cake? OMG!!!!

    Comment by SUSAN B — April 17, 2008 @ 7:09 pm

  11. Happy birthday - and just look at those eyes! :D

    Comment by Foreigner — April 17, 2008 @ 8:41 pm

  12. I don’t think I will ever make a ‘Great’ Anything … and I don’t smell … Better seeing me than Great Auntie Bugs, she will lock them in the basement !

    Comment by Moon — April 17, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

  13. Happy Birthday Little Flea!!

    MMMMMMMMMMMMWAH!!

    XXX

    Comment by jennynib — April 17, 2008 @ 11:48 pm

  14. Good Lord! That has to be illegal in many places. What was it that Theftcriminal said? I can feel the pain in my left arm already…

    But our little lads have iron for insides - they’ll be all right.

    Happy Double-Digit-Day for the young one. And congrats to Mum for hanging on…

    Comment by Camron — April 18, 2008 @ 2:58 am

  15. Gimme Gimme Gimme!! Happy birthday to no2!!

    Comment by SleepyJane — April 18, 2008 @ 7:24 am

  16. Looks fabulous!!!.
    Happy Birthday Number 2

    Comment by Isitjustme? — April 18, 2008 @ 7:27 am

  17. I do wish you’d stop posting about chocolate, sugar, cream cheese and other yummy stuff!

    I don’t even like cheesecake, but I have a craving for that one. I might actually have to make it … one day, when I’m feeling masochistic. I just know I’d eat half of it at one sitting and feel REALLY ill. LOL!

    Comment by Jay — April 18, 2008 @ 11:54 am

  18. Great Auntie Bugs would spoil them rotten - its only Moon that she locks in the basement!

    Comment by Don't Bug Me! — April 18, 2008 @ 1:49 pm

  19. Happy happy to Number 2, I think you should add a dose of Ben & Jerrys New York Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream to his list of goodies….I am NOT even reading your recipe, the scale is being nasty to me again and LYING…BTW Kirstin was due on my birthday, but I reckon she knew that it would be more fun to each have our own so she evacuated a little early!!

    Comment by Natalie — April 18, 2008 @ 2:23 pm

  20. Susan: Hmmm..not heard of it. Sounds gorgeous though. Ouch, my arteries!!

    Foreigner: Thanks, they’re his Daddy’s. Well, they’re not ACTUALLY his Daddy’s, but very similar xx

    Moon: True. And I don’t know if you smell - you’re too far away.

    J: OH MY GOD, your present sent him into a mad excited fit. Tickets to Linkin Park - you are just the COOLEST Auntie (ish) alive!!! Thanks xxx

    Cam: Aw thanks. He’s a happy chappy generally (especially when liberally doused in chocolate) x

    Isit: Why thank you! Makes a change from choccy sponge eh?

    Jay: Apologies - we’re kind of a calorie laden family! Actually, one benefit is that it’s so bloody rich you can’t manage that much.

    Bugs: And he bloody deserves it too no doubt. Best place for him. Oh, and LOVING the lamb recipe. It looks divine.

    Nats: Y’see? That’s what I love about that girl - thoughtful through and through! x

    Comment by englishmuminireland — April 18, 2008 @ 3:04 pm

  21. What is it with 10 year olds requesting Lynx Dark Temptation Body Spray? With the “effect of Chocolate” (Unilever’s words not mine)!

    I think they secretly desire having their bums bitten which, when babies was not a problem but they are getting a bit older now!

    Our #1 wafts out the door to school smelling, well, not much like chocolate at all - of course, I think he is yummy without the spray, but don’t tell him it will ruin his street cred!

    x

    Comment by Tummy Mummy — April 21, 2008 @ 10:52 am

  22. Tums: Hello darlin’! How are you? Yes, it’s sad about the bum biting. I did try but he fought me off. Don’t you think that stuff smells like Palmer’s Cocoa Butter? I LOVE the smell, but sadly Hubby hates me smelling like a Caramac bar so I have to step away from the bottle in Boots. And why do they have to use so much? Our whole upstairs reeks like a footballers’ shower room every morning (oh, that’s AFTER the shower, by the way!!) xx

    Comment by englishmuminireland — April 21, 2008 @ 5:56 pm

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