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Friday 18 May 2012

Millionaires Cheesecake

This afternoon I received the amazing news that a recipe I entered via Baking Mad to appear in the 2012 Macmillan Little Book of Treats is going to be featured in the book which will be sold in M&S Cafe's in August and September.

I am overjoyed to say the least. May is turning out to be a bit of a surreal month, first I reached the finals for the BiB awards, and then the MAD awards and now this.

Apparently they loved my recipe & it's been tested by a home economist and professionally photographed ready to appear in the book. You don't need to wait until August to see it though as I can give you a special preview of my recipe here.


Millionaires Cheesecake

Base
125g Plain Flour
40g Golden Caster Sugar
90g Butter

Filling
50g Butter
50g Light Muscovado Sugar
1 x 397g can of Condensed Milk
300g Full Fat Cream Cheese
200ml Double Cream

Topping
100g Good Quality (72%) Dark Chocolate
125ml Double Cream
15g Milk Chocolate

To Make Base
  • Mix flour and sugar together in a bowl and rub in the butter until it resembles breadcrumbs
  • Knead together to form a dough
  • Place a round metal cookie cutter (approx 7.5cm diameter) onto a greased baking tray
  • Take a 20g piece of the dough and press into the base of the cookie cutter
  • Press the remaining dough into the base of a 20cm loose bottomed cake tin
  • Bake in a preheated 180o C oven for 15 minutes, until firm to touch and lightly browned (10 minutes for the small one)
  • Allow to cool in the tin.


Filling
  • In a small pan melt the butter, muscovado sugar and condensed milk.
  • Bring slowly to the boil, stirring continuously
  • Simmer until thickened, around 5 minutes, stirring all the time
  • Spoon 1tbs of the caramel onto the small base and smooth over
  • Reserve 175g of the caramel in a bowl, spooning the rest onto the large base and smooth over.
  • Allow to cool
  • Beat the cream cheese and reserved cooled caramel together in a large bowl
  • Whisk the cream until it forms soft peaks and fold into the cream cheese and caramel mixture
  • Spoon onto the cooled caramel layer on the large base, place in the fridge to set
  • Melt the dark chocolate in a bowl in the microwave in short bursts.
  • Slowly stir in the double cream until smooth
  • Pour over the cheesecake and allow to set
  • Melt the milk chocolate in a bowl in the microwave in short bursts
  • Pour into the metal cookie cutter and spread over the caramel layer. Allow to set


To decorate
  • Press the mini millionaire's shortbread out of the cookie cutter ring and cut into small squares and scatter over the cheesecake


Serves 8


Millionaires Cheesecake


8 comments:

  1. I will make this one day when i need a calorific cheesecake for a dessert!! Thanks for linking up x

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  2. Just made this. Soooo delicious

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  3. hi, i m italian and i would really like ti try this recip for my boyfriend's birthday...i just have some problem with the filling...what do you mean with cream and double cream? thank you so much

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    1. double cream is thick cream that can be whipped - heavy cream / whipping cream?

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  4. ahh ok, (milk) cream, thank you so much!!!

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  5. just made this and its amazing :)

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