Tiger Stripes Cheesecake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    For Biscuit Base
    50 g crushed Oreo cookies, cream removed
    50 g crushed digestive biscuits
    40 g melted butter (MW on high for 1 minute)
    For Cheese Filling
    500 g cream cheese
    100 g caster sugar
    3 eggs
    100 ml skim milk
    235 g sour cream
    1 tablespoon rum
    2 teaspoons lemon juice
    75 g 70% valrhona guanaja in beans dark chocolate (melted via double boil)
Preparation
    Mix biscuit crumbs with melted butter. Toss biscuit crumbs into a lined 18cm cake pan and press firmly. Bake biscuit base at 160C for 12 minutes. Cool for use later.
    Cream cheese with sugar till smooth and creamy.
    Add in egg one at at time and beat till well blended.
    Using low speed, beat in the sour cream and milk.
    Divide batter into 2 equal portions of about 490g per portion.
    Stir melted chocolate and rum into 1 portion of batter till well blended.
    Add lemon juice into the other portion of the batter.
    Spoon 1 ladle full of plain batter into the middle of the biscuit base, then 1 ladle full of the chocolate batter on top of the plain batter. Alternate between the two batters till all batter is used up.
    Bake at 160C for 50 - 60 minutes till the circumference of the cake is cooked. The centre of the cake could be wobbly. Remove cake and cool for 1 hour. Chilled cake for at least 3 hours before serving, or overnight for better flavour.

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