Cookies and cream cheesecake

I had recently made a cheesecake that flopped when I took it out of the pan. I should have taken a photo of my failure, for cooking is filled with its failures and its successes. This time I did not want it to flop and so I made sure it had adequate gelatine. This recipe required 8 little cheese cakes to be shaped by PVC piping. As this was probably the only time that I would require the PVC piping and so I opted for the springform tin. 

This recipe was taken from the Womens Weekly Cupcakes Cheese Cakes Cookies that sister dearest gave me. What a wonderfully beautiful cook book. I so inspire to one day master your recipes even though I failed at your macarons and Easter egg cup cake basket. For this challenge I decided to make the cookies and cream cheesecakes.

The Ingredients

The Base

125 grams plain chocolate biscuits

75 grams butter, melted

Filling

2 teaspoons gelatin

2 tablespoons water

375grams cream cheese, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup caster sugar

300ml cream

180 grams white eating chocolate, metled

150 grams chocolate cream-filled biscuits, broken

The method

Grease a 24cm spring-form pan and line it with baking paper.

For the base process the biscuits until fine. Add the butter and process until combined. Place the mixture in the springform pan and spread evenly along the base of the pan until it is level and compressed. Place in the fridge for 30 minutes.

I use the bulldog clips to keep the baking paper in place

Melt the gelatine in warm water until all is dissolved.

Beat cheese, extract and sugar in a bowl with an electric mixture until smooth. Beat in the cream and then stir in the white chocolate, gelatine mixture and broken biscuits.

Remove the springform pan from the fridge and pour in the filling. The refrigerated over night.

The next morning I awoke to a soiled and not mushy cheesecake. The baking paper did not leave the cake that smooth around the edges so that is something that I need to work on. I adored the creaminess of the cake and the chocolate biscuits bits and pieces hidden in the cake. I would definitely make this again.

Once when eating out a lady who got a piece of apple pie declared that some of the cake is missing and rejected it. Perhaps she would declare some part of the cake missing and reject this too..