The Most Chocolaty Cheesecake

Hi Guys

It was the boys birthday on Monday and as is tradition I made him a cake. I like baking or at least attempting to as I think its much more personal even if it does end you costing me more then actually buying one.

This year the boy who isn't on the same wave length as me usually when it comes to cake asked for a chocolate cheese cake, so I was more then happy to oblige.  

I got the recipe from the BBC website and is from Gina Brooks as a White and Milk Chocolate Cheesecake but I changed it just to use milk chocolate. Here's the link to the original recipe.

Warning: This Cheese Cake is ridiculously chocolatey!!

This is what you need 

12 Chocolate Digestive Biscuits 

50g of Butter

1 tbsp Honey

500g of Mascarpone cheese

1 tbsp of icing sugar

300g of Milk Chocolate

Extra Chocolate for topping

Step One: Brake the biscuits into small crumbs, the best way to do this is to but them into a zip lock bag and bash them with a rolling pin.

Only 12 Biscuits!

Step Two: Melt the butter, I did it in the microwave being careful not to burn it. Add it to the biscuit crumbs with the Honey and mix well. 

Calorie Counting 

Step Three: Place the biscuit mixture into a round 7in chefs tin pressing down with the back of a spoon to make sure its firm. Place in fridge for a good half an hour. 

Step Four:  Melt the chocolate in the usual way with a glass bowl over boiling water being careful not to let the glass touch the water.

Lick The Spoon

Step Five: Add the melted chocolate to a mixing bowl with the Mascarpone cheese and Icing Sugar mixing well until the mixture becomes creamy smooth. I'm not going to lie to you I got the boy to mix this for me as god it was hard work so be prepared to use them muscles. 

Heaven

Step Six: Add the chocolate mixture to the biscuit base covering well and evenly. For the extra chocolate for the top I used a vegetable peeler to add in curls all over. Next put back in the fridge for a good few hours.  

Ta Dah

Step Seven: Serve and enjoy! Add a little ice cream on the side and if your feeling very chocolatey a little bit of sauce. 

Please let me know if you try my version of this recipe and what you think as even I struggled with how chocolatey it is.

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Weekend Antics

Hi guys

Here's another little lifestyle post for you as I've become a little addicted to writing them and I hope you enjoy reading them. I have had such a busy week I don't feel like I've sat down, but if you asked me what I've been to up I'd say not a lot as I don't actually know what I've been doing with my time.

On Friday I did what now has become a kind of tradition for me and my dad, as I don't usually work Fridays and he finishes early, we go out for lunch.

We went to the Prince William at Dalton which is near where my dad and grandad used to work on a farm before it was turned into housing. It was lovely having a drive round and my dad telling me things about my grandad and the stories from my dad being little. I just wish id taken some pictures as its actually a very beautiful area and would recommend it for a lovely country walk.
My lunch at the Prince William was amazing I went for the good old steak and onion baguette with chips. I'm so glad I didn't have a starter as the portion was massive! The chips were more like smacks! Sorry if you don't know what a smack is as its probably a northern thing. It's basically a massive chip, a whole slice of potato that's quite flat.

Prince William

Since the boy had been away with work all week we planned to go out for the day on Saturday but yet again only ended up in Manchester due to lack of imagination and planning. One day we will get to go to Tatton Park or Leeds!

First plan of action since as we were in Manchester well before 10am was breakfast at the lovely House of Fraser restaurant San Carlo Cicchetti. Now I love a good eggs benedict an have on serval occasions tried to make holendaise sauce with little success and a few disasters to but it nicely.
I've been to Cicchetti's a few times and this is the only time the egg wasn't runny enough but the boy wouldn't let me complain so I kept quite and enjoyed. And to make myself feel better took home the little posts of jam and marmalade that we got with our toast.

San Carlo Cicchetti

San Carlo Cicchitti

Egg's Benedict

San Carlo Cicchitti

The weather started out in good style and we walked around for a bit and bickered over the boy buying an iMac. Which since I was told no I cant have one he's not having one either. But I did fanaticise over a new Mulberry handbag since I NEED a black one in my life.

Next we were off for an afternoon snack or more a big piece of chocolate cake at Patisserie Valerie which always has a massive queue waiting for a table. Even though we managed to get a table, after finding out each piece of cake was a pound more expensive for the pleasure of sitting inside we decided to enjoy the sunshine and find a nice spot on a patch of grass near to Spinningfields. Oh how wrong we were to not pay the extra £2 as the wind picked up that much I feared my cake was to be blown away and gripped onto it for dear life.

Patisserie Valerie

Patisserie Valerie

Patisserie Valerie

After finally shovelling down my double chocolate cake with a sneaky and delish profiterole we managed to get half way a cross town via a quick glance round Jack Wills before the heavens opened.
Running across town with maxi skirt in hand, in a very lady like fashion my I add to make the earlier train in the pouring rain. To only get there and I am blaming the boy for this, getting on the wrong train and it actually being the later one that happened to be in the station, let's just say I was best pleased to then sit there for another 15 mins after watcher our train leave from the next platform.

Double Choclate Gateau 

All in all it was a good day rounded off with a few drinks with the girlies in our local in celebration for a couple of birthdays. I was driving as I worked on Sunday morning again but enjoyed seeing everyone. One day I will get to write a post where I get to go out and get drunk have a lie in and get a McDonalds breakfast rap in bed.

Hope you all had an amazing weekend!

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