Baked raspberry cheesecake
Cooking time
Prep: 20 mins Cook: 40 mins Ready in 1 hourSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 8This is a dead easy two-step recipe that looks like it took hours (and lots of skill) to make
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition
- kcalories
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- protein
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- carbs
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- fat
- -
- saturates
- -
- fibre
- -
- sugar
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- salt
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Ingredients
- 8 digestive biscuits
- 50g butter, melted
- 600g cream cheese
- 2 tbsp plain flour
- 175g caster sugar
- vanilla extract
- 2 eggs, plus 1 yolk
- 142ml pot soured cream
- 300g raspberries
- icing sugar
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Method
- Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Crush 8 digestive biscuits in a food processor (or put in a plastic bag and bash with a rolling pin). Mix with 50g melted butter. Press into a 20cm springform tin and bake for 5 minutes, then cool.
- Beat 600g cream cheese with 2 tbsp flour, 175g caster sugar, a few drops of vanilla extract, 2 eggs, 1 yolk and a 142ml pot of soured cream until light and fluffy. Stir in 150g raspberries and pour into the tin. Bake for 40 minutes and then check, it should be set but slightly wobbly in the centre. Leave in the tin to cool.
- Using the remaining 150g raspberries, keep a few for the top and put the rest in a pan with 1 tbsp icing sugar. Heat until juicy and then squash with a fork. Push through a sieve. Serve the cheescake with the raspberry sauce and raspberries.
Recipe from olive magazine, July 2005
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
This cheesecake is so beautiful to make and present that its almost too good to eat...almost. Myself and my 56 grandchildren baked this one weekend and it truly left all 57 of us feeling full, well I don't know about them but I certainly did! Great fun to bake and eat I would deferentially recommend to a friend- if I had any!
Not much of a success, although guests said they liked it, probably because the raspberry sauce is yummy. The flour just made lumps which I tried to sieve out unsuccessfully. The flour also gave it a strange texture - more cake than cheesecake. I've made much better from other recipes (which never have flour added) but just thought I'd give this a go as it had such good reviews.
This took longer in my oven and I still wasn't sure if it was too wobbly but it turned out fine, cracked quite a bit but the raspberries and coulis covered it. Found it better after sitting in the fridge for a day or two. I put blueberries in the cheesecake but topped with raspberry coulis. And made white chocolate leaves too :D
Really delicious. Made with 500g light soft cheese & my dad's home grown raspberries which I used from frozen in the cake. Base a bit too soft, next time I would use a mix of digestive & oat biscuits & cook it longer until crisp. Mine cracked on the top when cooling & we ate it while still warm in the middle as short on time. Think it would be nicer if made well in advance & cooled completely. Will definitely try with other soft fruits. Yum!
Just made for the second time. This time I checked the oven temperature was correct with an oven thermometer. And used 300g of fruit instead of 250g like last time (mixed raspberries and blueberries). Still took an hour and 40 minutes! And it is less cooked than last time (when I overcooked to be on the safe side) despite same time and slightly higher oven temp than before. So I reckon - if you add extra fruit, you need to extend the cooking time. This time it hasn't sunk in the middle, but did start to crack while cooking. So although left in the oven to cool, it had already cracked, but I'm not bothered about the cracks - looks interesting!
I'm afraid I just daren't take it out while still naked looking and wobbly - I leave it till it is evenly brown and only very slightly wobbly - and last time the texture was wonderful and the cheesecake itself perfect. So I would err on leaving it a bit longer if adding extra fruit.
Forgot to rate it. Four stars - lost a star purely for slight lack of flavour. Oh yes, I also used 12 digestives instead of 8, but still just used 50g of butter, and this was just right.
A thought - maybe adding more fruit bulks the cake out and makes it take longer to cook - hence my longer cooking time. 8" deep loose-bottomed tin is just right, I found - makes at least 10 slices. Tin needs to be either a very good non-stick tin, or lined with greaseproof paper. Also recommend tying a band of greaseproof paper round the top of the tin to stop the edges burning.
I followed the recipe exactly, apart from adding more raspberries. Mine took ages to cook - about an hour and a half! But maybe my oven and maybe I cooked it a bit too long. However - it was perfect! Sunk in the middle after, but that was Ok - looked interesting and just filled it with the raspberries. Other reviewers are right - it is miles better two days later! So am making another one for a birthday party - going to make it two days ahead, and use a mix of raspberries and blueberries for a bit extra tang. Partner really liked it (and getting compliments out of him is like blood out of a stone) so it must be good. His only criticism was it could do with more of a tang - maybe lemon curd on top - so might try this cheesecake with the topping for the lemon baked cheesecake.
