Garden party part 2 - White Chocolate Cheese cake

White chocolate cheese cake 

I've been making this chesses cake for years

I have a friend who can not eat milk or dark chocolate so this is perfect for him.

The original recipe has Oreo biscuits for the base, but as this is dark chocolate I changed it to digestive biscuits.

But the Oreo base is much better so I made two this time.

One with a digestive base and one with Oreo’s and digestives

Oreo base 

All you need is 

Base 

250g of either Oreo’s or digestives (most biscuit will do the job (not wafer )

120g butter, melted (the amount you need may vary, depending on the type of biscuits you use)

Filling

375g cream cheese, softened

100g caster sugar

3 large eggs

200g white chocolate, melted

225g Crème fraiche   

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 160 degrees

Line the base of a 20cm or 21cm diameter cake pan with baking paper.

 Place the  biscuits in a food processor until finely crushed

Then add the crushed biscuits to the melted butter and  press mixture over the base.

digestive base 

Then pop in the fridge while you preparing the filling.

Melt the White choclate in a bowl over a saucepan

And while this is melting

Use a electric mixer to beat cream cheese with sugar together.

Beat in eggs one at a time.

 And

add the Crème fraiche   

And then add the melted white chocolate.

 Stirring until smooth.

Add the vanilla extract

And beat until ingredients are combined.

Pour filling over biscuit base and bake for about one hour.

before it goes in the oven 

When you take it out of the oven allow to cool as this will allow the cheese cake to set.

I like to decorate mine with fruit or white chocolate shavings.