Coffee Liqueur Cheesecake

Coffee Liqueur Cheesecake 


PREPARATION: 20 MINS 
SERVES: 10 


Another recipe from the freebie cookbook I got when I bought the cheese for my New York Cheesecake. It looks really delicious! I bet we have it gone in 8 serves in this house lol.

Ingredients
1 1/4 cups sweet biscuit crumbs (I used chocolate ripple biscuits) 
80g butter, melted (see my notes)


500g Philadelphia Block Cream Cheese, softened
3/4 cup caster sugar
2 tablespoons coffee liqueur (I used Kahlua, I must remember to buy some more the bottle is nearly empty....oops) 
3 teaspoons gelatine, dissolved in 1/4 cup boiling water
2 teaspoons instant coffee, dissolved in 1 tablespoon boiling water
1 cup cream, lightly whipped.


Double cream to serve
Chocolate curls to decorate

Method
Combine biscuit crumbs and butter. Press into the base of a 20cm spring-form pan. Chill.


Beat the Philly and sugar using an electric mixer until smooth. Add the coffee liqueur, gelatine and coffee and beat until well combined, then gently fold in the whipped cream. 


Pour into the prepared base and refrigerate 3 hours or until set. Slice the cheesecake, top with a dollop of double cream and chocolate curls. Serve immediately. 


My Notes

One day I will have every size tin there is to be had, but at the moment I have a 22cm spring-form pan and it will just have to do :) So I used the whole packet of biscuits crumbed and added 125g melted butter, which was probably a little too much butter! oh well. 

I used Arnott's Chocolate Ripple bikkies for this recipe, I just thought they would compliment the recipe better than plain biscuits. 

Just because Daniel was lying on the couch doing nothing which annoyed me slightly I made him hand whisk the cream....told him it was essential to the recipe.... :P 


While he was doing this I had a glass of Kahlua & milk :D I was parched!


My chocolate curls didn't work :( I got grated chocolate instead...maybe I needed to have the chocolate at room temp to curl?

This recipe is from the Philadelphia Simply Heaven Cookbook. A freebie with 75 gorgeous recipes & photos when I bought their product! 


Also made from this cook book is: 
Slow Cooked Red Wine Ragout  


Also made with Philadelphia cream cheese: 
New York Cheesecake

I would definitely make this cheesecake again and next time I would up the quantity of the filling, it was a skinny cheesecake and I like big fat ones! :)