Recipe for family meals :

It is many years since Hub-UK was first launched. It has been created from recipes contributed form all over the world, from professionals and amateurs alike. A great many of the recipes do not have any details as to who sent them in or from where they came. It would be a shame not to share them with you for this reason alone.

This recipe is one such recipe. If you know where it originated, or perhaps it is even yours, let me know and I will add the necessary credits and acknowledgements.

"The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking - love, for those you are cooking for" ~ Sophia Loren.

Ingredients

1 cup chocolate wafer crumbs
1/4 tsp cinnamon
3 tbsp butter, melted
32 oz cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
4 large eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
2 tbsp orange flavoured liqueur
1/2 tsp grated orange peel

Method

• Combine the chocolate wafer crumbs, cinnamon and butter and press into the bottom of a9 inch spring-form pan.

• Bake at 160°C for 10 minutes.

• Combine the cream cheese and sugar, mixing until well blended.

• Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well each time.

• Blend in the sour cream and vanilla extract.

• Blend the chocolate into 3 cups of the mixture and then add the orange flavoured liqueur and grated orange peel to the remaining mixture.

• Pour chocolate mixture over the crust.

• Bake at 180°C for 30 minutes.

• Reduce oven temperature to 160°C.

• Spoon remaining mixture over the chocolate mixture and continue baking for 30 minutes more.

• Loosen cake from rim and cool before removing.

• Chill in the fridge.

Serves 10