Chocolate Orange Cheesecake. A luscious two layered cheesecake inspired by Terry’s Chocolate Orange. It’s been popular in my family and on my blog for many years.
Chocolate Orange Cheesecake
I adapted this chocolate orange cheesecake recipe about 15 years ago around the Holidays. Santa, in his regular generosity, inspired me by leaving that familiar favourite, a Terry’s Chocolate Orange, in the toe of my Christmas sock.
Since then, this recipe has proven to be the most popular of the many cheesecakes in my repertoire. Probably because of the great popularity of Terry’s Chocolate Orange in the U.K., the Brits who have sampled this chocolate orange cheesecake have gone mad for it too.
I like to use 50% dark chocolate chips for the ganache topping but you can use semisweet as well.
It has made many the repeat appearance at the annual family Christmas feast. More recently, I was called upon to provide something to be raffled off at a fundraiser tonight and thought this might catch the eye of ticket buyers.
Try this recipe with seasonal citrus like clementines or tangerines.
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Chocolate Orange Cheesecake
Chocolate Orange Cheesecake - a luscious two layered cheesecake inspired by Terry's Chocolate Orange. It's been popular in my family and on my blog for many years.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups Oreo Cookie Crumbs
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1 ½ pounds cream cheese
- 1 ¼ cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ cup whipping cream
- 1 ½ squares unsweetened baking chocolate, melted (In a pinch you can substitute 1/2 cup cocoa but add another ¼ cup whipping cream to this half of the mixture.)
- Zest of one large orange, finely grated
For the ganache glaze
- ¼ cup whipping cream
- 1 cup semisweet or dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Lightly grease the bottom but not the sides of a 9 or 10 inch springform pan. Line the bottom with a sheet of parchment paper for easy release from the pan later, once the cheesecake has cooled.
- Mix together the cookie crumbs, melted butter and 3 tbsp sugar and press into pan.
- Cream together the cream cheese and 1 ¼ cups sugar.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Add the vanilla extract and whipping cream and blend until smooth.
- then divide mixture into 2 equal portions in separate bowls..
- To the first half of the mixture, stir in the melted chocolate (or cocoa and additional cream)
- Pour into bottom of the prepared springform pan.
- To the second half of the mixture, stir in the finely grated and chopped zest 1 large orange. Carefully spoon this mixture over the top of the chocolate mixture already in the pan.
- Bake at 325 degrees F for about 60 minutes or until the surface of the cake no longer looks glossy. Remove from oven and immediately run a sharp knife around the edge of the pan to release the cake. Cool completely in the pan. Top with the Ganache glaze.
- To make the ganache glaze, in a heavy bottomed pot, scald but do not boil the 1/4 cup whipping cream, then melt in the chocolate chips over low heat.
- Pour over cooled cake or to create Ganache lace, cool slightly and spoon into piping bag fitted with a number 3 tip. Pipe over the entire cake in a circular, overlapping swirling pattern, repeating coverage all over the cake until all Ganache glaze is used. Garnish with orange segments, orange zest curls or orange slices.
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Nutrition Information
Yield
16Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 458Total Fat 33gSaturated Fat 19gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 11gCholesterol 110mgSodium 217mgCarbohydrates 37gFiber 2gSugar 30gProtein 6g
The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.
Jean Mulloy
Friday 13th of January 2023
This looks great. Two. questions. 1. Do you remove the filling from the Oreo cookies before crushing, or do you crush the whole cookie? 2.What is bain Marie?
laura
Friday 28th of October 2022
This cheesecake looked and tasted great! A big hit. The hardest part for me was creaming the cream cheese and sugar together. Maybe there's an easier way to do it. Can you use a mixer to do this?
Joan Javellana
Friday 8th of July 2022
Do you cool it outside of the fridge ? I cooling it for an hour then in the fridge. Its delicious! I made. Once but screwed it up. Will be perfect this time, unless I'm cooling it wrong. Help!!
Paul
Sunday 14th of March 2021
Many thanks for this recipe! Made the cheesecake for my office last week, and it was very well received! One change I made was to put in the flavourings only after the mixture had been divided into the two bowls. Added 1 tspn vanilla essence to the chocolate portion, and 1 tspn orange essence to the orange portion.
Charlotte H
Wednesday 19th of August 2020
Made this and it was absolutely delicious! I was super confused about the amount of chocolate (the note above did not help!) but I ended up doing 6oz of chocolate and that seemed to work. The flavour combination was fantastic, and the cake came out looking beautiful.