What is in a Jamaican Chocolate Cheesecake? I'm interested in making a variation of this baked Jamaican Chocolate Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Shop. The description from the website is not terribly useful in identifying what the possible ingredients are:


  A smooth, baked chocolate cheesecake crowned with mouthwatering
  chocolate shavings, and lightly dusted with icing sugar.


I've searched the internet fruitlessly for a "Jamaican Chocolate Cheesecake" recipe. There are a few other Jamaican Cheesecake recipes but they mostly seem to involve ingredients that are Jamaican (e.g. "Jamaican mangos") so I'm under the impression that the chocolate is Jamaican and it isn't a style of cheesecake. (Is "Jamaican chocolate" a thing? I couldn't find that either...)

The closest I can find is recipes for "Jamaican Hot Chocolate" and "Jamaican Chocolate Tea" which involve some cinnamon and maybe nutmeg and other flavours.

Short of getting the people at the shop to give me the ingredients, which I doubt they would do, I'm at a loss as to what goes in this cake. This website has a non-promo photo of the cake, including the inside after it is cut: http://blog.stillaslife.com/food/jamaican-chocolate-cheesecake-from-the-cheesecake-shop/ 

Has anyone heard of this type of cake before and know what goes in it?



Unfortunately I haven't tasted the cheesecake. A choc-orange variety was requested so I'm just left guessing what else could be in it. I was mostly hoping it was a more common recipe than it is...



I ended up contacting them and it is just a normal chocolate cheesecake with a chocolate biscuit base. I inquired if it had rum or cinnamon or anything and they said no they just add cocoa to the normal vanilla cheesecake mix.

I'm going to award the answer to LoganGoesPlaces for the useful info and because their idea is very creative and sounds tasty.
While I've never experienced this cheesecake personally and the photo doesn't show anything at all "Jamaican" about it, I'd hazard a guess that the recipe involves rum.  The traditional go-to cake in Jamaica is a black fruit cake.  It involves soaking dried fruit in rum for an extended period of time and making liberal use of molasses for color.

If I were making it myself, I'd soak some dried fruit such as dates in rum for a few days.  Then I'd add rum to the cheesecake recipe and I'd chop the dates fine to put on top along with the shaved chocolate.