Chocolate with Francois: Chocolate Cheesecake with Orange Marmalade
A dark chocolate cheesecake with a rich cookie bottom crust. How could anyone resist? This month’s Francois Payard recipe was chosen by Susan of Baking With Susan. Make the cookie bottom first. Francois calls this a Sable Breton. It’s different from any cookie crust I’ve made before in that it uses HARD COOKED EGG YOLKS to make the dough flakier, more crumbly. The recipe for 1 lb of Sable Breton: Hard boil 2 large eggs. Cool. Remove shell, remove white, then crumble the egg yolk as small as you can. Combine 4 1/2 oz butter + 1/2 cup confectioners sugar [...]