Old Fashioned Cheese Cake
Preparation Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 8 – 10 people
 The children of Israel were looking forward to entering ‘the Land of milk and honey’ – just think generations later how we have captured their excitement with enjoying the pleasure of eating cheese cake!
You cannot beat the traditional favourites that the whole family always enjoy and dare I say always look forward to…..
This recipe is both quick and simple to make as well as uses few ingredients. To make a variation, I have made the cake with the following flavourings –
Chocolate and cinnamon as per this recipe
1 tablespoon lime juice with zest of 2 limes + 2 tablespoons desiccated coconut – garnish with zest of a lime and 2 tablespoons of desiccated coconut
1 tablespoon instant coffee
4 tablespoons fresh raspberries – garnish with raspberries and sprigs of mint
Ingredients
450g curd cheese or cream cheese
2 eggs
225g caster sugar
15 digestive biscuits
100g unsalted butter/margarine – melted
Flavouring:
50g grated plain chocolate
2 teaspoons cinnamon
Topping
3 Cartons sour cream
2 tablespoons caster sugar
Garnish:
Plain chocolate shavings
Cinnamon
Method
1) Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC/ 350ºF/ Gas mark 4.
2) Line and grease a 22 cm (9 inch) loose-bottom cake tin.
3) Crush the biscuits in a magimix and pour in the melted butter.
4) Press the biscuits into the lined baking tin in an even layer.
5) Beat the cheese, eggs and sugar together. (Add your desired flavouring at this stage!)
6) Pour over the biscuit base.
7) Bake for 30 minutes and remove from the oven gently.
8) Mix together the sour cream and caster sugar. Pour over the cake and return to the oven for 5 minutes.
9) Turn the oven off.
10) Leave the cake inside the oven until the cake has completely cooled down. This prevents it from cracking!
To serve the stylish way:
Turn the cake out of the tin and dust the top with shavings of plain chocolate and a dusting of cinnamon.
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