chocolate (orange) brownie cheesecake

Brownie base-made in advance-follow link for recipe

cheesecake
200g dark chocolate
400g cream cheese
2 eggs
 60g caster sugar
200ml cream
1 tsp orange extract - optional


Make and cook brownies in a 21cm tin, turn out and set aside,


melt the chocolate
mix the cheese, sugar and eggs together until smooth
add the cream, extract and finally the chocolate

pour into prepared tin

bake at 170c for 45 minutes.  then remove from oven and cover the tin with clean teatowel and leave until competely cold

when cold, remove from tin and place ontop of brownie base-secured with some chocolate or ganache.

this cheesecake pictured is decorated with chocolate fans-I'll post a blog on this eventually