Australian blogger and fellow cake-lover, Phoodie, has created a cheesecake that has blown the minds of internet-users all across the world… and we’ve sweet-talked her into letting us share the recipe with you!
Fairies, meet the Emerald City Mint-Choc Cheesecake, an explosion of rich, decadent flavour that is ridiculously easy to make.
In fact, Phoodie promises that you CANNOT get this recipe wrong.
Using a 25cm tin (with tall sides, approx 12cm – and filling it to the top!)
Base
100 g Arnott’s Mint Slice biscuits
400g Arnott’s Choc Ripple biscuits
200g butter, melted
Filling
5 x 225g packets Cream Cheese – Room Temperature
1 and 1/4 cups caster sugar
5 cups whipped cream
3/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
1 teaspoon green food dye (you can vary this amount depending on how green you want it to be!)
1 block (118g) Nestle Aero Mint Chocolate – roughly chopped
For the Topping and Decoration
200g Dark Chocolate Melts
100ml Thickened cream
As many Mint Slices, Peppermint Crisp Chocolate Bars, Aero Mint Chocolate Bars as you want! I used approx 3 Cadbury Flakes, 12 Mint Slices, 5 Peppermint Crisps and 3 Blocks Aero Mint!
NOTE: Make sure the cream cheese is at room temp and that your cream (for the filling) is already whipped and set aside.
1. Blitz the Choc Ripple and Mint Slice biscuits in a food processor to a fine crumb. Combine with the melted butter in a bowl and mix. Transfer to a baking paper lined tin (I also grease the edges up with melted butter to ensure it doesn’t stick!) and using hands push evenly into the base and up the sides of the tin. Place in the fridge to set.
2. Place room temp cream cheese and sugar in an electric mixer and beat on slow for 2 mins, increase speed to medium for a further 5 minutes and then mix on high for a further five minutes. You want to keep going until there are NO lumps and the mix is light and airy.
3. Turn mixer off and add in food dye and peppermint extract and then turn back on and mix again on medium until well combined.
4. Turn mixer off and very gently fold through the chopped Aero and whipped cream. It is important that you are gentle when doing this part but it is also important that the mixture is well-combined, so take your time!
5. Pour filling into base and smooth top with a spatula. Set in fridge. This should set properly within 3 hours but I prefer to make it the day before I am serving and then to finish the topping the next day.
6. To make the chocolate ganache topping place the chocolate and the cream in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for about 30 seconds at 10 second intervals, stirring in between. When fully melted, set aside for a few minutes to cool slightly.
7. Remove cheesecake from fridge and slowly pour the ganache over the top of it. You can use as much or as little of this as you like (the remainder can be stored in the fridge for about 5 days and used as fudge sauce) but try to make sure it doesn’t spill over the edges too much!
8. Allow the ganache topping to set slightly (should take about 5 minutes) before generously decorating the top in an array of Arnott’s Mint Slice biscuits, Cadbury Flakes, Nestle Peppermint Crisp Bars and Nestle Aero Bubbly!
Phoodie’s culinary obsession began when she was 3. Cooking, recipe writing and eating, with both her Greek and Lebanese grandmothers, comprise her fondest childhood memories. She currently runs Phoodie, a blog for everyone with a passion or food. Phoodie can be found on Facebook here, Instagram here and she tweets here.
