Recipes Desserts, Baked Lemon Cheesecake

Recipes – Desserts

Baked Lemon Cheesecake

Serves 10

250g plain biscuit crumbs

2 teaspoons nutmeg

125g melted butter

250ml thickened cream

3 eggs

1/2 cup caster sugar

2 teaspoon grated lemon rind

2 tablespoons lemon juice

500g cream cheese, room temperature, cubed

1.Crush biscuits 5-6 at a time using the ‘PULSE’ button until crumbled. Remove jug from base and shake biscuits if necessary. Combine the nutmeg, melted butter and biscuit crumbs in a bowl; mix well. Press crumb mixture into the base and sides of a greased 20cm springform pan. Place on a baking tray and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

2.Place cream, eggs, sugar, rind, juice and half of the cream cheese in blender.

3.Blend on speed 3 for 30 seconds. With the motor still running, remove the ingredient cup from the lid and drop in the remaining cubes of cream cheese one at a time, until the mixture is smooth.

4.Pour filling into crust and bake in oven at 160°c for approximately 50 minutes or until firm. Cool in oven with door ajar. Refrigerate for several hours before serving.

Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

2 1/4 cups self raising flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

2 eggs

180g butter, room temperature, chopped

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 1/2 cups raw sugar

1 teaspoon white vinegar

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 1/2 cups very ripe mashed banana

1.Preheat oven to 180°c. Grease and line a 20cm baba pan.

2.Sift flour, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg into a large bowl.

3.Place the eggs, butter, milk, sugar, vinegar, essence, and bananas into blender jug.

4.Blend on speed 2 for 35 seconds. (Mixture will separate at this stage but will come back together when mixed with dry ingredients).

5.Pour the banana mixture into the dry ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon or whisk until combined.

6.Pour mixture into prepared tin and bake for about 40 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer.

7.Allow cake to cool in pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

8.Ice with cream cheese frosting, recipe over page.

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