A Great Gingerbread Cheesecake
Ingredients
- 175 ml (¼ pt) double cream, at room temperature
- 600 g (1 lb 5 oz) Delamere Dairy spreadable goats’ cheese
- 1 egg yolk and 2 whole eggs, room temperature
- 1 tbs plain flour
- 200 g (7 oz) caster sugar
- ½ tsp ginger
- Seeds from 1 vanilla pod
- For the Biscuit Base:
- 260 g (9 oz) gingernut biscuits
- 1 tbs caster sugar
- 85 g (3 oz) Delamere Dairy goats’ butter, melted
If you haven’t picked your dessert for Christmas Day quite yet, we have a suggestion for you: Gingerbread Cheesecake.
It’s not quite the traditional trifle or Christmas pudding, but it’s guaranteed to help spread some festive smiles!
Method:
- Pre-heat the oven to 200 deg. C., 400 deg. F., Gas Mark 6.
- To make the biscuit base, crush the biscuits, then add the sugar and melted butter and mix well.
- Press the crumb mixture into the base of a 20 cm (8 in) spring-form cake tin, flattening with the base of a glass.
- Cook in the pre-heated oven for no more than 5 minutes, then set aside to cool. Turn the oven down to 170 deg. C., 325 deg. F., Gas Mark 3.
- While the base is cooling, make the filling. In a bowl, whip the cream to soft peaks.
- In a separate bowl, beat the cheese and eggs together then beat in the cream. Next, beat in the flour, sugar, ginger and vanilla seeds.
- Add the mixture to the cooled biscuit base then bake in the oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour until firm but slightly wobbly if shaken.
- Turn off the oven, leave the door ajar and leave the cake to cool for another 45 minutes to 1 hour – it may crack a little but if you had everything at room temperature when you started, that’s much less likely.
- Cool on a rack and, when cold, run a knife around the edge. Wrap with cling film and store in the fridge to set for 4 hours or overnight.
- Decorate your Gingerbread Cheesecake as desired.
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