Bakewell cheesecake

Bakewell cheesecake

This almond and cherry baked cheesecake is a heavenly marriage of two amazing desserts

Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 10

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 1 hr

Cook time

Cook 45 mins

plus cooling and chilling

Method

  1. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line the base and sides of a 23cm springform tin with baking parchment. Bash the biscuits and 75g of the flaked almonds to crumbs - try double-bagging in food bags and crushing with a rolling pin. Mix with the almond extract and melted butter, then press into the base of the prepared tin and bake for 10 mins. Set aside to cool while you make the filling.
  2. In your largest bowl, whisk the cheese with an electric whisk until creamy. Add the sugar and whisk to combine. Whisk in the flour, then the vanilla, the eggs, one at a time, and finally the soured cream.
  3. Dollop spoonfuls of mixture into the tin, dotting in tbsps of jam as you go. Smooth the top as gently as you can.
  4. Carefully place tin on the middle shelf of the oven and bake for 10 mins. Scatter with remaining almonds. Decrease oven to 110C/90C fan/gas ¼ and bake for a further 35 mins. Turn off the oven, keep the door closed and leave cheesecake to cool for 1 hr. Open oven door and leave it ajar for another hour (you can use your oven gloves to wedge it open). Cool for a third hour at room temp, then cover and chill overnight.
  5. Remove from the tin and carefully peel off the parchment. Dust with icing sugar and serve with cream.

PER SERVING

740 kcalories, protein 13.0g, carbohydrate 57.0g, fat 51.0 g, saturated fat 27.0g, fibre 1.0g, sugar 37.0g, salt 0.9 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2012.

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  • 24 October 2012

    Mimsiuke rated this recipe

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  • 26 October 2012

    Madge commented on this recipe

    Just about to make this for first time. I buy quite regularly lovely tasting almond biscuits in Waitrose (Waitrose own) so am going to try using them. Cost about 80p a packet.

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  • 07 November 2012

    wendy commented on this recipe

    Just an update on my post on the previous page, I made this again this weekend and used homemade lemon curd, it was fantastic.

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  • 15 November 2012

    Claire cupcake rated and commented on this recipe

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    Wow! This recipe is incredible , first time I've baked a cheesecake , the only frustrating part is that you have to wait until the next day to try it . I used digestives for the base and actually doubled the amount of base mixture and put extra almond essence in worked just right , didn't need the cream to serve with it . Will be making this again.:)

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  • 18 December 2012

    Clare rated and commented on this recipe

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    Feeling festive last weekend, I substituted mincemeat for the jam and got a Mince Pie Cheesecake which turned out really well.

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  • 11 March 2013

    Kezzy commented on this recipe

    I followed this recipe to a tea, I know I didnt put enough jam in thats for sure. But the actual mixture was far to cheesey I thought it when I was buying them. Have I done something wrong as I was sooo looking forward to giving it my mum and mother in law!!

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  • 15 May 2013

    Deanna commented on this recipe

    I have just joined the site and plan to try this as it sounds delicious. All the comments are very helpful so thank you to all contributors. Lidl sells a very good cherry jam and is quite cheap and is very inexpensive for the quality. I also think thins would not be substantial enough so will be on the look out for almond biscuits with texture.

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  • 10 June 2013

    MrsJosephineSmith rated and commented on this recipe

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    What an amazing cheesecake, first baked one I have made. Following beccyg_83's advice, I turned off the oven and let the cheesecake cool down in there for about 6 hours before refrigerating and not only was it perfectly cooked, but no cracks. I used the whole jar of jam and it certainly wasn't too wet or jammy!

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Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 10

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 1 hr

Cook time

Cook 45 mins

plus cooling and chilling

Ingredients

  • 200g/7oz almond biscuits
  • 100g toasted flaked almonds
  • ½ tsp almonds extract
  • 100g butter , melted
  • 3 x 300g packs full-fat soft cheese
  • 250g caster sugar
  • 4 tbsp plain flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 large eggs
  • 200ml tub soured cream
  • just over half a 300g jar cherry jam
  • icing sugar and cream , to serve
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PER SERVING

740 kcalories, protein 13.0g, carbohydrate 57.0g, fat 51.0 g, saturated fat 27.0g, fibre 1.0g, sugar 37.0g, salt 0.9 g

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