World Chocolate Day, or International Chocolate Day, is celebrated annually on July 7. If you ask me though, it should be celebrated every day.
Why? Because chocolates make people happy. Chocolates are also nutritious. It is a powerful source of antioxidants and is good for your heart.
Some like it dark and bitter, others smooth and sweet. No matter what your flavour preference, let’s start this special day dedicated to chocolate lovers with a mug of hot chocolate drinks.
Once we’ve gotten our chocolate fix, we can start making this mouth-watering Chocolate Coated Cheesecake Bars treat!
Chocoholics, doesn’t the name alone sound absolutely heavenly to you? Hold on, it gets better. There’s even more joy to this dessert:
Question: What’s greater than the combination of chocolate and cheesecake?
Answer: A chocolate and cheesecake combo that tastes like ICE CREAM!
Eaten chilled, it is just like eating cheesecake ice cream. The best part? This chocolate-coated cheesecake bar is ridiculously simple to bake! So, if you are thinking of impressing someone, this is the one dessert that you should try baking.
Chocolate Coated Cheesecake Bars
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 70 g digestive biscuits
- 35 g melted butter
- 280 g cream cheese
- 30 ml whipping cream
- 80 ml plain yoghurt
- 60 g sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 200 g dark chocolate
Instructions
- Melt butter.
- Crush digestive biscuits into crumbs.
- Pour crumbs into a bowl.
- Mix in melted butter.
- Press crumbs into bottom of lined baking pan.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk cream cheese and sugar.
- Add vanilla extract, egg, whipped cream, yoghurt and continue whisking until smooth.
- Pour cheese mixture over crust.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 160C for 60 minutes.
- Cool to room temperature before cutting.
- Cut into bars or squares.
- Freeze after cutting.
- Chop dark chocolate.
- Melt the dark chocolate in a bowl placed in hot water.
- Dip frozen cheesecake in melted chocolate.
- Chill until ready to be served.
A Little Scientific Fact On Chocolate and Happiness
Every bite into a piece of chocolate brings us happiness. Most of us may know this facet, but do you know how chocolate actually makes us feel happy?
It is thanks to cacao. The main ingredient of chocolate contains tryptophan, which the body uses to produce the mood-elevating substance of serotonin—also known as the happiness hormone!
So with every bite of chocolate, you’ll get butterflies in your tummy similar to when new love blossoms.
The most important message: Chocolate makes us happy. So, eat up your chocolate-coated cheesecake bars and be merry!
If you are a huge fan of chocolate just like me, do also check out my collection of chocolate recipes:
1) Dark Chocolate Millecrepe Cake
2) Moist Chocolate Cupcake
3) Chocolate Pancake
4) Dark Chocolate Cornflakes Finger Breadstick
5) Chocolate Chip Bun
