BBC Good Food

25 August 2009

Tested

" This cheesecake is absolutely divine!! everyone who ate it commented on how light it was! my 90 year old mother who has a very small appetite loved it so much ate two slices! and said she had never eaten a cheesecake so delicious as this one. I had Baileys in my cupboard so used that instead of Tia Maria. I wonder if the lightness comes from not over cooking the cheesecake? I made a Cherry one from another recipe, it turned out o.k. but was heavier and more solid and was cooked a different way. I will look for more recipes with the same cooking method as this one. I left out the Chocs, next time i will try plain choc curls or flake if Cadburys still make them."

01 August 2009

Tested

" Just made this cheesecake for myself and family, i think the success of it is all down to the cherries. The cherries i bought did not have much flavour and were not juicy enough, so did not produce enough syrup. Other than that it turned out well. Next time i will taste the cherries before buying. We have had a terrible summer so far, with not enough sun to fully ripen cherries or any other fruit for that matter..... now cherries from Turkey are something else!! shame we can't buy them here. Next time i will try a different base of digestive biscuits. I made it in a round springform tin as did not have a rectangular collapsible one. I have seen other cheesecake recipes where the tin is wrapped in foil then placed in a deeper baking tin with water half way up the sides. Is this to stop it browning?"