New York (Vanilla) Cheesecake

For Ieuan’s birthday this year I decided to make him his favourite dessert as he always says ‘I don’t need a cake’. So here we have my first cheesecake bake!

Recipe

For the crust

• 85g butter
• 140g digestive biscuit
• 1 tbsp granulated sugar

For the filling

• 300g cream cheese – I used Philadelphia
• 250g caster sugar
• 3 tbsp plain flour
• 1 1/2 vanilla extract
• zest 1 lemon
• 1 1/2 tsp lemon juice
• 3 large eggs
• 1 yolk
• 284ml soured cream

For the top

• 142ml soured cream
• 1 tbsp caster sugar
• 2 tsp lemon juice

Method

For the crust

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius

• Line a circle cake tin
• Crush biscuits into crumbs
• Melt butter
• Mix together biscuits, melted butter and sugar
• Spread mixture evenly on the bottom of the tin
• Bake for 10 minutes
• Cool on a wire rack while you make the filling

  

  

  

  

  

  For the filling

Preheat oven to 200 degrees celsius

• Whisk cream cheese until smooth
• Mix in sugar bit by bit
• Whisk in vanilla, lemon juice and zest
• Add the eggs one by one
• Add the yolk
• Mix in soured cream
• Fill tin
• Bake for 10 minutes
• Reduce oven to 100 degrees celsius
• Bake for 25 minutes

Turn the oven off and leave cheesecake in there to cool for 2 hours

For the top

• Mix ingredients together
• spread over cheesecake
• refrigerate over night

There we have a Baked New York Cheesecake, admittedly a lot more work that I was expecting BUT Ieuan and everyone else loved it so I’m happy!!

Beth x