American Chocolate Ripple Cheesecake

I had offered to make a pudding for the church lunch, and as there is a whole chapter on cheesecakes, and cheesecake is not one of Adam's favourite puddings, I thought I would give this one a go.
The cheesecakes I normally make do not require baking, so this was a change for me.
I started off by making the base with 100g plain chocolate digestives and  50g of butter - not much for a cheesecake base I hear you say! Well, that is what Nathan and I thought as we pressed it into the base of the loose bottomed cake tin. I was tempted to make some more base mixture, but was reminded that I should not "deviate from the Berry", at least first time round.
After leaving the base to cool in the fridge, I made the filling.  What the recipe lacks in base, it makes up for in cream cheese - 700g in all! Note that supermarket own brand of cream cheese was less than half the price of that famous brand! The rippled effect was given by putting half the mixture in the tin in blobs, then mixing the remaining half with chocolate and blobbing that in between the first mixture. The mixture is then swirled and leveled on the top.
It baked in the oven for an hour, and then the oven was turned off and the cheesecake was left in the oven to cool, and then put in the fridge.
The cheesecake is not much of a looker - which might be why there is no picture of it in the book! I added some grated chocolate on the top - this is not in the recipe, but I do not consider this to be deviating as it was only for decoration, not for taste!
This recipe comes with the warning of being sweet and rich, and Mary is not wrong! It seemed to go down well at church, although I did commit a crime in not bringing any cream along to go with it! Thankfully I had removed the cheesecake from the tin before taking it to church - it was fairly difficult to get the base out, although it did get easier the more pieces I cut.
The cheesecake received a mixed reception. I saw one little girl take one bite, and say it was horrible, while a very dear lady in the church said it was delicious and she would give it  10.0
Adam gave it 8.5, which for someone who doesn't like cheesecakes is not bad. I think its quite a fair score. It is perhaps not as suited to the younger palette!
It's Ben's birthday next weekend, and he has chosen a maple syrup cake - should be fun!
p.s We decorated the dining room this week, hence the new spotty table cloth, and a lack of baking mid-week!