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
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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