Finally got around to baking something new! I had a few blocks of cream cheese lying around which was about to expire so I’m glad I thought about making this before it did. My roomate brought a huge bottle of Bailey’s at the beginning of term so I had to use it some how 
Making the crust. I don’t think digestive cookies and graham crackers are exactly the same, but I accidentally bought digestive cookies. Still tastes good though! I didn’t have a food processor to ground the crumbs so I just put them in a zip lock bag and pounded them =)
Split the batter in two and added two squares of melted semi-sweet chocolate into one of them.
Pour the regular batter in first, dropped some of the chocolate mixture and then used a spoon (or a knife) to make swirl patterns. I swirled it a little too much.
Bake it for around an hour (see recipe below) and voila!
It looked really hideous so I had to find some way to cover it up. Cocoa powder is the best!
Added some fruits to make the crack look more intentional (berries were frozen).
Happy Canada Day! Gotta add a maple leaf to join the festivities =)
How to make the leaf: Print an outline of a maple leaf, cut it out and placed it on top of the cake. Sift icing sugar on top.
Bailey’s Marbled Cheesecake
Crust:
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 package graham crackers, ground to crumbs
- Combine butter, sugar and cocoa powder
- Stir in crumbs
- Press evenly over greased 9-inch springform pan
- Bake at 350F for 10 minutes
Filling:
3 8-ounce (250g) packages cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
3/4 cup Bailey’s irish cream
2 squares (2 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate, melted
- Beat cream cheese until smooth
- Gradually beat in sugar
- Beat in eggs, one at a time
- Blend in Bailey’s
- Pour 1/3 mixture into bowl and stir in melted chocolate
- Pour half of plain mixture into pan
- Drizzle with half the chocolate mixture
- Repeat layers
- Make marbled design by gently swirling batter with knife
- Bake 10 minutes at 450F, then 50 minutes at 350F or until cake tests done
Enjoy =)