{"id":17319,"date":"2021-02-17T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/?p=17319"},"modified":"2023-02-15T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:53:16","slug":"easter-chocolate-orange-cheesecake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/2021\/02\/17\/easter-chocolate-orange-cheesecake\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Chocolate Orange Cheesecake!"},"content":{"rendered":"

 An easy and delicious no-bake Easter chocolate orange cheesecake with a biscuit base, chocolate orange cheesecake filling, and more! <\/h2>\n

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Easter chocolate orange cheesecake<\/h3>\n

Okay so I caved… I’ve done an easter chocolate orange cheesecake. Why? BECAUSE I LOVE IT SO MUCH. But yes, it is basically my chocolate orange cheesecake<\/a> just with the easter mini eggs on top! It is amazing. <\/p>\n

Last year I decided to make a YouTube video for this recipe as I didn’t want to post a full recipe blog post.. but so many of you have been asking for it I have done it! It is simply a slightly easter themed version of the recipe that has been on my blog for years. <\/p>\n

As soon as they decided to bring out terry’s chocolate orange themed mini eggs I knew I would be buying tonnes of them – they just taste SO good, and they are habitually encouraging my love for terry’s daily. I love them – and they look cute too. <\/p>\n

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Base<\/h3>\n

For the biscuit base I stuck to using digestives. If you are in America, you would use graham crackers in place… but for digestive lovers, I am obsessed. For a decent base you need to make sure the the biscuits are crushed to a very fine crumb – I use my food processor, but if you only have a bowl and rolling pin, just make sure it’s fine before carrying on.. no massive lumps of biscuit. <\/p>\n

I then mix in melted butter – you can use baking spread, but sometimes this makes it greasy. If you find your biscuit bases are a little hard, you can reduce the butter to about 100g. Also, if you want to use a chocolate covered biscuit, filled biscuit, light biscuit, or buttery biscuit like shortbread you need to use 100g of butter as well as they require less. <\/p>\n

You can make the biscuit base chocolate themed for this Easter chocolate orange cheesecake by using 25g cocoa powder in the base. I prefer doing this compared to using a chocolate biscuit as I find the melted butter melted the chocolate and creates a more mushy base!<\/p>\n

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Filling<\/h3>\n

For the cheesecake filling, it stands the same that you MUST USE FULL-FAT soft cream cheese. Philadelphia for example is a much more classic cheesecake flavour, whereas if you use mascarpone it would be sweeter! <\/p>\n

Both work just as well as each other, but they just need to be full fat. You can also use supermarket own soft cheese, but be careful of added water content as that can always cause problems! (I long for the day that I can buy block cream cheese…). <\/p>\n

When making a chocolate based cheesecake, I melt the chocolate and leave to cool. Then, I mix my cream cheese, icing sugar and flavours (like vanilla, if using), together, and then pour in the melted and cooled chocolate. I tend to find mixing the chocolate in before the cream helps prevent seizing chocolate. <\/p>\n

After the chocolate is mixed in, I add the double cream and whip until thick – alternatively you can whip the cream to stiff peaks in a separate bowl, and fold through the cheesecake mixture. <\/p>\n

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Chocolate<\/h3>\n

For the flavouring of my Easter chocolate orange cheesecake filling I used two terry’s milk chocolate orange’s because they are classic and my favourite, but the dark or white if you can find them work just as well. You can use Cadbury chocolate orange buttons, or milk chocolate with orange extract for example! <\/p>\n

I didn’t add chopped mini eggs to the recipe like I do in my Mini Egg cheesecake<\/a> because I found the recipe already had enough chocolate orange flavour – but you can add them if you wish! I do find the orange colour from the shells does leak badly though after some time. <\/p>\n

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Topping<\/h3>\n

For the topping I just use a sweetened whipped cream (like normal….) but that is optional as always! I just think it looks nice, and personally I like it. I then added a combination of the milk chocolate orange mini eggs, and white chocolate orange mini eggs (although they look the same.). <\/p>\n

Add a little grated chocolate, and some crushed mini eggs in the middle and you are done!! I always get a little carried away with the decoration, but you can do whatever you want really! Just enjoy the recipe! x<\/p>\n

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Easter Chocolate Orange Cheesecake!<\/h2>\n\t\t
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\u00a0An easy and delicious no-bake Easter chocolate orange cheesecake with a biscuit base, chocolate orange cheesecake filling, and more!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n