Recipes – Desserts
Baked Lemon Cheesecake | Serves 10 |
250g plain biscuit crumbs
2 teaspoons nutmeg
125g melted butter 250ml thickened cream 3 eggs
½ 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.Press the ‘MIX’ button. 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
2¼ cups self raising flour ½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½teaspoon nutmeg- 2 eggs
180g butter, room temperature, chopped
½cup buttermilk
1½ cups raw sugar
1 teaspoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1½ 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.Press the ‘MIX’ button. (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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