cheesecake

family recipe

So I decided to make a cheesecake. And it turned out like this:

When you have a favourite recipe, nothing else will do. In this particular case, my Dad's is the best I know. The ingredients are these:

crushed Nice biscuits with melted butter

 

First off, you must prepare the biscuit base. This is the most tedious part but once it is done, the rest is quick and simple. Leave the butter to melt whilst crushing the biscuits by placing them inside a plastic bag then bash with a wooden rolling pin (quite therapeutic).

 

Place the biscuits into a bowl and add the melted butter and mix thoroughly.

 

Line a spring form tin with the mixture, first using a spoon to spread and then a flat-bottomed glass to help the mixture firm up. The straight sides of the glass help especially when forming up the sides of the tin. This can be a pain if you're in a hurry - so don't make it if you're in a hurry! This is also quite therapeutic

 

 

These are the other ingredients:

Philadelphia cream cheese, sugar, eggs, lemon juice and vanilla extract

The Philadelphia (full-fat) cream cheese and sugar are beaten with 3 eggs, some vanilla and lemon juice.

 

 

Then pour into your prepared biscuit base:

 

 

smooth out:

 

 

then bake, 180 deg C (350 deg F) for 30-40 minutes, depending on your oven. Mine took 35.

 

And, here it is. 

 

Leaving it to cool at around midnight, I went out to get my daughter who had been babysitting. Of course, we came home to smells of freshly baked cheesecake were too irresistible, and against all my protestations, a hungry babysitter could not resist a small slice before it had even cooled properly.

 

Nevertheless, here it is this morning, having been refrigerated overnight. And it tastes great fridge cold.

 

 

 

 

Doesn't it look good? It was!