• How do you make cheesecake even better? Add a chocolate topping, of course! This baked cheesecake with Bar One topping is a doubly decadent dessert, creamy and delicious.

    The Tennis Biscuit base is topped with a creamy cheesecake and delicately drizzled with Bar One – one of South Africa’s most loved chocolate bars.

    It’s quite easy to see why it was one of our most popular recipes who could resist this dreamy duo? Spoil your spouse, your family or your friends and bake this delicious cheesecake with Bar One topping to celebrate any special occasion (if you can resist not eating the entire cake all by yourself!)

    From Country Living Café

    Baked cheesecake with Bar One topping

    By Food & Home Entertaining Serves: 8
    Cooking Time: 1 hr 15 mins + chilling time

    Ingredients

    • Cheesecake

    • 1 x 250g packet Tennis Biscuits, crushed
    • 100g butter, melted
    • 500g cream cheese
    • 300g sour cream
    • 175g (¾ cup) castor sugar
    • 3 large eggs
    • Bar One Topping

    • 2 large Bar Ones, cut into pieces
    • 125ml (½ cup) cream

    Instructions

    1

    Preheat the oven to 160°C. Whizz or process the biscuits until crumbs form. Add the melted butter and process until combined.

    2

    Press the crumbs into the base of a 22cm springform tin. Refrigerate.

    3

    Blend the cream cheese, sour cream and castor sugar. Beat in the eggs.

    4

    Pour the mixture onto the biscuit base. Place on a baking tray and bake for 1 hour. Cool slightly in the oven.

    5

    For the Bar One topping, melt the chocolate and cream in the top of a double boiler (don’t try to do this without a double boiler or the chocolate will burn). Stir well until smooth.

    6

    When smooth, spread carefully over the cheesecake. Refrigerate for a day before serving.

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    Also see: Fehmzs San Sebastian cheesecake recipe

    Fehmz’s San Sebastian cheesecake recipe