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This Guinness & Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe Is Happiness In Cake Form

This Guinness & Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe Is Happiness In Cake Form

Just mix the irreverent joy of a pint of the black stuff, add a mountain of gooey cream cheese & combine with sweet milk chocolate et voila!

Gary Grimes

Gary Grimes

Ever having one of those evenings where your mates are trying to drag you to the pub but all you want to do is set up camp on the couch, stick on the telly and veg out? Perhaps reward yourself for surviving a hard week, not with a pint but with a ginormous slice of cheesecake?

Well now, thanks to the utter genius that is M. Wassenaar over on All Recipes, you might be able to have the best of both worlds as we've recently come across her original recipe for - wait for it - a Guinness and Chocolate Cheesecake.

Let that concept sink in for a moment. You simply mix the irreverent joy of a pint of the black stuff, add a mountain of gooey cream cheese and combine with sweet milk chocolate et voila - happiness in cake form is served to you on a plate!

Okay, so there might be a little more to it than that, but if ever there was a time to level up your baking skills it would be to learn how to make a Guinness and bloody chocolate cheesecake, right?

To see if you're up to the task, check out the full recipe below and prepare for your mind, and tastebuds, to be blown...

What you'll need for the base:

  • 110g crushed chocolate biscuits
  • 50g butter, softened
  • 2 tablespoons caster sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder

What you'll need for the filling:

  • 675g cream cheese, softened
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 225g plain chocolate, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons double cream
  • 225ml soured cream
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 175ml Guinness
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Okay now you've got everything, here's the hard part - how to actually make it:

  • Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4 - Grease a 23cm (9 in) springform tin with butter, then wrap the outside of the tin in foil.
  • Combine the crushed biscuits, 50g butter, 2 tablespoons sugar and cocoa in a small bowl; mix; press into the bottom of the prepared tin.
  • Place the cream cheese in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer on low speed until smooth. While beating, slowly add 200g sugar and then the eggs, one at a time. Continue beating until smooth.
  • Combine the 225g chocolate and double cream in a bowl. Heat in the microwave until the chocolate is melted. Beat the chocolate into the cream cheese mixture. Add the soured cream, salt, Guinness and vanilla; blend until smooth.
  • Pour the mixture over the base. Place the tin into a large, deep baking dish. Fill the dish with hot water to cover the bottom half of the springform tin.
  • Bake the cheesecake in the water bath in the preheated oven for 45 minutes.
  • Turn the oven off and leave the cheesecake in the oven with oven door slightly ajar for another 45 minutes.
  • Remove from oven. Run a knife along the edge of the cheesecake to loosen from tin. Chill in refrigerator at least 4 hours.

** Originally Published on: Sep 3, 2019

Featured Image Credit: Adele on AllRecipes.co.uk

Topics: Ireland