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Old-Fashioned Cheesecake
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8 serving
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Serves: 8
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Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil
- 15 Digestive Biscuits, crushed
- 100g Unsalted Butter or Margarine, melted
- 450g Cream Cheese or Curd Cheese
- 2 Large Eggs
- 225g Caster Sugar, plus 2 tbsp for the topping
- 50g Plain Dark Chocolate, finely grated
- 2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 450ml Soured Cream, for the topping
Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 180c/350f/Gas Mark 4. Oil with vegetable oil and line a 23cm round (7.5cm deep) springform cake tin. Set aside.
Step 2
Make the cheesecake. In a medium bowl, mix together the digestive biscuit crumbs and butter or margarine. Press the mixture in an even layer into the base of the tin.
Step 3
In a medium bowl, beat together the cream cheese or cottage cheese, eggs and sugar. Beat in the chocolate and cinnamon.
Step 4
Pour the mixture over the digestive biscuit crust in the pan.
Step 5
Bake for 30 minutes. Carefully remove from the oven and set aside. Do not turn off the oven.
Step 6
Make the topping. In a small bowl, mix together the soured cream and sugar. Pour over the cake.
Step 7
Return the pan to the oven. Bake for 5 minutes.
Step 8
Turn off the oven. Leave the cheesecake to stand in the oven until it has completely cooled (About 4 hours), then invert on to a serving plate.
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