Basic cheesecake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- 1 hour chill time
- Easy
- Serves 8
Ingredients
- 100g digestive biscuits or cookies, crushed into crumbs
- 50 g Demerara sugar
- 50 g melted butter
- 500 g full fat cream cheese
- One vanilla pod sliced lengthways or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200 mls double cream
Method
- STEP 1In a mixing bowl mix biscuits and sugar. Add in melted butter and mix well
- STEP 2Spoon into 20 cm spring form cake tin lined with silicon paper or baking parchment. Use a metal spoon to press down. Chill in fridge to set.
- STEP 3In a mixing bowl, using a whisk or wooden spoon, beat together the cream cheese icing sugar and vanilla pod seeds or vanilla extract until well mixed.
- STEP 4Fold in the double cream, mixing well.
- STEP 5Spoon the mixture over chilled biscuit base, making sure there are no air bubbles, smoothing top with a knife.
- STEP 6Chill in fridge for about one hour.
- STEP 7When set, remove from fridge, take out of cake tin and put on a plate. Serve drizzled with orange juice and Bailey's.
