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Chocolate Ring Cheesecake

A perfect chocolate ring — a sculptural torus of dark chocolate cheesecake under a glossy mirror glaze, with chocolate curls and gold leaf.

Ingredients

  • 180g chocolate biscuits, crushed
  • 90g butter, melted
  • 500g cream cheese, room temp
  • 100g powdered sugar
  • 200g dark chocolate, melted
  • 300ml heavy cream
  • 2 tsp powdered gelatin, bloomed in 3 tbsp cold water
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • For the glaze: 150g sugar; 60g cocoa powder; 120ml water; 100ml heavy cream; 2 tsp powdered gelatin, bloomed in 3 tbsp cold water
  • 50g dark chocolate, shaved into curls, and edible gold leaf flakes, to decorate

How to make it

  1. Mix the crushed biscuits with melted butter and press into the base of a 20cm ring (savarin) mould. Chill 30 min.
  2. Beat the cream cheese, powdered sugar, melted dark chocolate and vanilla until smooth.
  3. Melt the bloomed gelatin, stir through the filling, then whip the cream to soft peaks and fold in.
  4. Pour the filling into the ring mould over the base and chill at least 6 hours until firm (freeze the last hour for a clean unmould).
  5. For the glaze, simmer the sugar, cocoa, water and cream for 2 min, take off the heat and stir in the bloomed gelatin. Cool to about 30°C.
  6. Unmould the ring onto a rack, pour the glaze over so it coats the whole ring, and chill 1 hour.
  7. Scatter the chocolate curls and gold leaf flakes, cut a wedge to show the layers, and serve.
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