Death By Cheesecake

Tonight's challenge, whether I choose to accept it or not, is to finish this post without having to run to the bathroom to throw up. Not from a lack of delicious, mind you, but instead the exact opposite. I am, if you will, suffering from what shall now forever be known as delicious overload.

Tonight I decided to tackle the first item in List 24: 100 Foods Recipes To Make - the Nutella Black & White Cheesecake. I decided that the first recipe I would make had to be a cheesecake because, after all, cheesecake was the impetus for the hundred hundreds challenge. So I went through the cheesecake recipes on food.com, and discovered that one can (supposedly) combine the cheesecake (something already delicious) with Nutella (possibly the most delicious spread on the face of the planet...)

So, the cooking process itself wasn't nearly as scary as I thought - although there is a heck of a lot of cleaning up to do (tomorrow, though, as I'm about to fall victim to a dairy coma) - and the most annoying thing was the fact that my beaters lowest setting was still not slow enough to stop mixture from flying onto my walls. And my friend Andy was around to give me some assistance, and to show me some of the basics of cooking, such as how to fold cream into a mixture, so big thanks to him.

So, how did the recipe turn out? Well, it was delicious. So. Very. Delicious. Very rich, too. The only comment I'd make is that the recipe calls for 1 hours chilling time, which (given that the Nutella mixture is basically just ganache) I would probably increase to more like 24 hours to get a really good firm going on, as when I took it out it was still very runny in the Nutella portions (the remnants are in the fridge, so I'll update this tomorrow with how it looks after more chilling time...)

I'll post some pictures of the finished product below, as well as a link to the recipe that I followed, but for one final word I shall give the honour to my best friend Alydd (the person who I mentioned in my very first post, the one for whom I was initially cooking the cheesecake)...Of this cheesecake he says "It was fantabulous!"

Indeed it was, Alydd...Indeed it was....

 How To Make This Cheesecake

The Finished Product

The Slice I Ate