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Smores Cheesecake Recipe from Made in the USA Cookbook

This Smores Cheesecake Recipe is super-easy to make, dangerously delicious and seductively moreish.

If you grew up in the States and were a member of the Girl or Boy Scouts, s’mores would have been your bread and butter – or to put it more accurately – your graham crackers, toasted marshmallow and chocolate. S’mores are a campfire necessity. Their very name is a smooshing together of ‘some more’. Need I say s’more?

Serves 8

Ingredients:

Cheesecake
100g whole blanched hazelnuts
250g digestive biscuits
Good grating of whole nutmeg
160g salted butter, melted
100g dark chocolate (minimum 70 per cent cocoa solids), broken into small chunks
500g full-fat cream cheese
60g icing sugar, sifted
1 tsp vanilla bean paste, or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
300g Nutella
125g mini marshmallows

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. Line the base of a loose-bottomed 23cm cake tin with baking parchment.
2. Pour the hazelnuts into a dry frying pan and toast over a medium heat until golden. Tip into a food processor with the biscuits and nutmeg and blitz until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
3. Stir the melted butter through the biscuit mix and tumble into the prepared cake tin, pressing firmly into the edges (I find a potato masher works brilliantly here).
4. Bake the base for 15 minutes, then leave to cool completely.
5. Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of boiling water (don’t allow the base of the bowl to touch the water) then leave it to cool slightly.
6. Meanwhile, pop the cream cheese, icing sugar, vanilla and Nutella in a bowl or freestanding mixer and beat together until smooth. You should want to jump right into that bowl and swim around devouring it all. If you don’t feel that urge, keep beating.
7. Pour in the melted chocolate, mixing constantly, then spoon the mixture on top of the biscuit base and smooth around the top.
8. Pop the cheesecake into the fridge to set for a minimum of 3 hours, although overnight is best.
9. Once set, arrange the marshmallows over the top and blowtorch until they are lightly scorched and take you back to nights in front of the campfire.

RECIPE FROM MADE IN THE USA COOKBOOK BY FLORENCE CORNISH
Made In The USA Cookbook Florence Cornish is a food blogger and chef. She trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London and was a River Cottage Rising Star Finalist in 2013. Made In The USA is a celebration of, all things great and glorious about American food, including 100 recipes showcasing the melting-pot of American cuisine. It covers breakfast classics such as Eggs Benedict and Pancakes with Blueberries & Cinnamon, slow cooking with Pulled Pork and Blue Belly Burgers and regional dishes such as San Francisco Spaghetti with Clams. The perfect cookbook for anyone who loves American cuisine.

 

Taken from Made in the USA by Florence Cornish priced at £18.99. Published by Kyle Books. To buy your copy kylebooks.co.uk

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