For a long time, M and I's Sunday morning ritual is to watch the BBC programme "Something for the Weekend" with a cuppa and breakfast in bed. I'm currently gutted that it's being cut (fingers crossed another channel picks it up!) but until it's off the screen I'm making the most of it!
A few weeks ago they make A Meringue Chocolate Cheesecake which looked lovely so I thought I'd give it a whirl as a Baked Cheesecake was on my 2012 New make/bake "to do" list. The recipe by Simon Rimmer can be found here. It looked lovely in the pictures and as I'd seen it being made live on a sunday morning, I though it looked perfect.
I made two mistakes (although I don't think anyone noticed) I crumbled the meringue up a bit too small as it all seemed to melt away and I personally didn't really notice it was there. I also made the fatal error of mixing the just melted chocolate into the still rather cold ricotta, egg and cream cheese mix and ended up with flecked chocolate cheesecake rather than a lovely smooth chocolate colour - whoops! Note to self - next time, let the chocolate cool down a bit if you're mixing it with chilled ingredients!!
Still, topped with a chocolate sauce (mixture of milk and dark chocolate, double cream, golden syrup and vanilla extract), whipped cream and fresh blueberries, it was lovely. Even M, a self confessed Cheesecake hater, had a large helping of the leftovers the next day. The bourbon biscuit base was lovely and I really liked the baked texture so I think I'd be quite happy to give a baked Cheesecake another try. It was very rich but also rather tasty and plus it has fruit so personally I'm counting it towards one of my five a day!!
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