Baked Cheesecake
Here’s how to make a baked vanilla cheesecake.
Print Pin RateCourse: Dessert
Cuisine: British
Keyword: Baking, Cheesecake
Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour hour
Cooling time:: 1 hour hour
Total Time: 2 hours hours 30 minutes minutes
Servings: 8
Ingredients
Biscuit Base:
- 200 g Digestive biscuits
- 140 g Butter
Cheesecake Filling:
- 600 g Cream cheese
- 2 tbsps Plain flour
- 2 tsps Vanilla bean paste
- 200 g Soured cream
- 350 g Golden caster sugar
- 3 Medium eggs
- Zest of 1 lemon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 150℃
- Lightly grease an 18-20cm springform tin with butter.
- Use a food processor to blitz the digestive biscuits until they resemble fine crumbs. Alternatively, you can put these into a sandwich bag and smash them with a rolling pin.
- Melt the butter, then add it to the digestives, mix until it is well combined and resembles wet sand.
- Place the mix into the springform tin, press down firmly. Place it in the fridge whilst you get the cheesecake filling ready.
- Use a whisk to beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the flour and beat until well combined.
- Add the vanilla, lemon zest, sugar, and soured cream. Whisk until it is just combined.
- Add the eggs one at a time and beat to combine. Do not over beat as this will aerate the mix.
- Pour the mix into the tin.
- Bake for 50 minutes. The top should be slightly golden, and it should have a slight wobble.
- Turn the oven off but leave the cheesecake in the oven for an hour with the oven door partly open.
- Once cool, place the cheesecake in the fridge for at least four hours, but ideally overnight.
- Unclip the sides and cut the cheesecake into portions. Serve with berries and a dusting of icing sugar.