Raspberry cheesecake
Background
This raspberry cheesecake is a very easy dessert to make. Although it requires baking, the preparation only takes a few minutes, then the rest of the work is done by the oven! You can make it gluten-free too - just use appropriate cookies (such as Amaretti cookies) for the base and cornflour/corn starch for the filling. You can make this recipe with other berries too - cherries, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries would work well.
Ingredients
- 8 biscuits/cookies (gluten-free, if needed)
- 50g butter, melted
- 550g cream cheese
- 2 tsp flour (or cornflour)
- 150g sugar
- 2 eggs + 1 egg yolk
- 150 ml sour cream or crème fraîche
- 300g raspberries
- 1 Tbsp icing sugar
- Few drops of vanilla essence
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Crush the cookies into crumbs and mix with the melted butter. Spoon the mixture into a 20 cm round cake tin, spreading it out evenly and pressing down with the base of the spoon. Bake for 5 minutes.
- Mix the cream cheese with the (corn)flour, sugar, sour cream and vanilla essence. Stir in the beaten eggs and egg yolk. Don't stir too much – otherwise the cake will crack!
- Carefully fold half of the raspberries into the batter, then transfer the mixture into the cake tin, spreading it out evenly.
- Bake for 40 minutes. It’s ready when the middle is still a bit gooey. Turn off the oven and let the cake cool in the oven for an hour (open the oven door slightly).
- Garnish the cake with the remaining raspberries and dust it with icing sugar.
- Alternatively, set aside some raspberries for decoration and cook the rest into a syrup with the icing sugar, then push it through a strainer. Before serving the cake, drizzle with the syrup and garnish with the raspberries.
Categories
- Meal Type: - Bake - Cakes - Dessert - Dinner
- Cuisines: - USA
- Occasions: - Afternoon Tea - Anniversaries - Christmas - Dinner Party - Easter - Mothers Day - New Year - Parties - Picnic - Sunday Lunch - Valentine's Day
- Ingredients: - Berries - Dairy
- Health and Diet: - Gluten Free - Nut Free - Vegetarian
- Skill Levels: - Easy
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