Mexican Cheesecake

Time

prep 0:45       total 1:15

Yield

8 to 12 servings

Ingredients

Ingredients

4 oz. plain chocolate biscuits (cookies) *
1/8 cup melted butter
4 pkg. (4 oz. each) cream cheese
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 tbsp. rum **
1 tbsp. grated dark chocolate
2 egg whites

Instructions

Crush biscuits with a rolling pin. Mix 2 ounces of biscuits with butter. Press crumb mixture into bottom of greased 9-inch (22 cm.) pie dish.

Beat cream cheese until smooth. Beat egg yolks with sugar until thick and creamy. Stir in rum. Gradually add mixture to cream cheese, stirring until smooth. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into mixture.

Pour into prepared dish pie dish. Sprinkle remaining biscuit crumbs and grated chocolate over top.

Bake in a slow oven 30 minutes, turn off heat and allow to cool in oven. Serve chilled.

Author's Comments

* Not chocolate coated.<br />
** I prefer white Bacardi rum.

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1 Recipe Reviews

turtle66

turtle66 reviewed Mexican Cheesecake on January 6, 2008

What exactly makes this a Mexican Cheesecake?? I'm puzzled being a Chef of Mexican decent my self.