Originally Posted by Eve

Stephen,

This what God gave us taste-buds for!!!! Personally, my favourite is white chocolate. Got hooked on it from having too many milky-bars as a child!

My other favourite is cheese cake, I loved making them as a chid (still do)! I found this recipe in a book I am going to give my sister for Christmas.

'Now Your Cookin' CHOCOLATE'

White Chocolate Cheesecake

Ingredients

For the base -
9 oz/250 g macaroons, 4 0z/120 g cup butter

For the filling -
12 oz/340 g white couverture
1 cup heavy cream
1 vanilla bean
1lb 9 oz/700 g mascarpone or cream cheese

For the decoration -
2 oz/50 g white couverture, chopped

Method

Put the macaroons into a plastic bag (there's the zip-loc bag again!) seal and crush them finely with a rolling pin. Put the crumbs into a mixing bowl. Melt the butter and blend with the crumbs. Grease the bottom of a 12-in/24 cm springform pan and spread the mixture evenly over it. Press down firmly and leave the cake base to cool.

To make the filling: chop the chocolate courverture finely. Combine with the heavy cream in a bain-marie, melt, and leave to cool. Split the vanilla beans open and scrape out the seeds. Mix the seeds with the cream cheese until smooth and add to the chocolate mixture. Reassemble the springform pan and grease it. Pour the mixture onto the cake base and smooth the top. Leave to set in the refriderator for five hours.

Before serving, carefully loosen the sides the pan. Decorate the cake with the white chocolate whirls/shavings and cut into small pieces.

Tip - Serve with fresh fruit salad (so now it's relatively healthy too, bonus!)

Enjoy

God Bless

Eve