Baked Cheesecake

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Baked Cheesecake

Baked Cheesecake is a modern New Zealand recipe for a classic biscuit base cheesecake with a sugar and sour cream topping that's oven baked. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic New Zealand version of: Baked Cheesecake.

prep time

20 minutes

cook time

50 minutes

Total Time:

70 minutes

Additional Time:

(+cooling)

Serves:

Rating:

Tags : Cheese Recipes Baking Recipes Cake Recipes New-zealand Recipes

Ingredients:

For the base

250g sweet biscuit crumbs (wine, digestive, malted milk etc..)
125g butter, melted
500g cream cheese (or you can use my home-made cream cheese recipe to prepare your own)
120g caster sugar
4 eggs
juice and finely-grated zest of 1 lemon

For the Topping

500ml sour cream
80g sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

Method:

Combine the biscuit crumbs and melted butter together. Press the mixture onto the bottom and sides of a 23cm diameter springform cake tin then place in the fridge until needed. Cream the cream cheese and sugar together until well combined then add the eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly each time. Add the lemon juice and zest and beat into the cream cheese mixture.

Pour the cream cheese mixture over the biscuit base and place in an oven pre-heated to 170°C (150°C fan/325°F/Gas Mark 3). Bake for 30 minutes then remove from the oven and allow to cool.

Mix all the ingredients for the topping then pour over the cooked cheesecake and bake for a further 5°8 minutes. Allow to cool and take out of the tin. Place in the fridge and cool well before cutting and serving.