Chili-chocolate cheesecake

[Geraldine]

Hey, here is the recipe for chili-chocolate cheesecake I promised earlier. This is really delicious although it might seem a bit odd to some of you Chili chocolate is reasonably new hit here even though mixing chili with chocolate is not a new invention.

crust:
~350 g cookies (Digestive)
50 g butter

filling:

200 g dark chocolate (I sometimes use ½ dark and ½ milk chocolate and I even put more chocolate than 200g)
200 g cream cheese (I guess mascarpone cheese will do fine too)
1 ¼ dl sugar
2-3 teaspoons vanilla sugar
2 eggs (2 egg yolks and 2 egg whites)
2 dl cream

3 leaf gelatines
1-2 tablespoons water
1-2 slices of chili (I use â€

[HEPZIBAH]

[face=Comic Sans MS]Thanks Geraldine - I look forward to trying this some day - although I think I will have to start with mild chillies first. Or will look like [/face]

[JOJO]

If i try it i think i would leave out the chillies,i can't imagine a hot sensation-but i suppose you don't know until you try

[Geraldine]

Go and buy a chili chocolate bar first, then you'll have an idea how it's like Hot chili cacao is also a good drink on cold evenings!

[JOJO]

I've never seen a chocolate chilli bar in the shops?

[Geraldine]

We have a chili chocolate bar by Fazer and it's available almost in every decent grocery store. But I've noticed many fair trade shops and similar have chili chocolate too. I googled and found this - this one doesn't seem to have a store but I think there must be stores which sell chili chocolate because it's fairly easy to find it in Finland too.
http://www.alotofchocolate.co.uk/produc ... 71&_More=1

[JOJO]

I will keep my eyes out for it....i wonder if thorntons do one ,i will have a look next time i'm in town

[HEPZIBAH]

[face=Comic Sans MS]jojo - I don't think Thornton's do a Chilli Chocolate yet. If you have a Montezuma chocolate shop near you I think they do. You may be lucky in an Oxfam shop or somewhere else that stocks Fair Trade products.[/face]

[JOJO]

Ufortunately we do not have a Montezuma shop near us infact i've never heard of it We have a large co-op that stocks fairtrade products so you never know....anyway why am i talking chocolate i'm on a diet....i suppose one piece won't harm me

[Countessa]

Interesting recipe Geraldine - sounds like something Heston Blumenthal would do

Jojo - I've never tried chilli chocolate either, but if you've got a Hotel Chocolat near you they sell it too

[JOJO]

Will you lot please stop giving me these posh chocolate shops....i live in a pokey town full of charity shops ,banks and bakeries

[HEPZIBAH]

...... but if you've got a Hotel Chocolat near you they sell it too

[face=Comic Sans MS]I'd forgotten Hotel Chocolate. A bit over priced for it's quality I feel but nevertheless I have had some chilli chocolate of theirs and it was very nice.

If you have ever been to Cadbury World on of the tasters they used to give you, and I assume still do, is a small glass of bitter chocolate which you had to guess what the ingredients were - chilli was in that. [/face]

[JOJO]

p.s and our Thortons is 2 shelves in Manor pharmacey(the chemists)
Mmm now you have me thinking thorntons toffee,i may have to treat myself with a bag for doing well on my diet

[Geraldine]

jojo, my sister was going through a book on weight loss just last weekend while I was sitting next to her and it said eating spicy food helps losing weight a bit - not much but still So I guess chili chocolate could help

[HEPZIBAH]

p.s and our Thortons is 2 shelves in Manor pharmacey(the chemists)
Mmm now you have me thinking thorntons toffee,i may have to treat myself with a bag for doing well on my diet

[face=Comic Sans MS]Don't you dare.
If you are doing well you should treat yourself but not with a 'poison' - think of the cost of the toffee and then save that amount of money to some new make up/nice undies/something special when you reach or are nearer your goal.

(I know - I have all the right ideas - why oh why don't I listen to myself sometimes and act on them. )[/face]

[JOJO]

ok Hepzi