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Cheesecake

By: Paul Young From: Good Food Bites

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Prep time:
20 mins, plus setting plus 1 hr chilling
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Serves:
6-8

For a gloriously indulgent treat try Paul Young's classic cheesecake recipe, simple but delicious . . .

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Ingredients

  • 100g digestive biscuits, or cookies, crushed into fine crumbs
  • 50g demerara sugar
  • 50g Butter, melted
  • 500g full-fat cream cheese
  • 100g icing sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod, sliced lengthways, or 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 200ml double cream
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Method

1. In a mixing bowl, mix together the biscuit crumbs and Demerara sugar. Add in the melted butter and mix well.

2. Spoon the biscuit mixture into a 20cm spring-form cake tin lined with silicon paper or baking parchment. Use a metal spoon to press the biscuit crumbs down firmly and evenly. Chill in the refrigerator until set.

3. In a large mixing bowl, using a whisk or a wooden spoon, beat together the cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla pod seeds or vanilla extract until well mixed.

4. Fold in the double cream, mixing well.

5. Spoon the cream mixture over the chilled biscuit base, making sure that there are no air bubbles. Smooth the top of the cheesecake with a palette knife or metal spoon.

6. Chill the cheesecake in the refrigerator for 1 hour until set.

7. To serve, remove from the cake tin and cut into slices.

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My daughter needed a cheesecake receipe to make for her GCSE work and she used this one. Its lovely to make and she did the lemon version as also said in another comment. We have made it a few times since then.

traceyS86476 traceyS86476 Posted 20 Oct 2009 7:16 PM
 

added raspberries to this delicous, really quick and easy.

jacquelineO45783 jacquelineO45783 Posted 03 Oct 2009 2:56 PM
 

Made it with lemon juice and zest, was really nice. would make many more.

antonyM24964 antonyM24964 Posted 01 Oct 2009 11:16 AM
 

have to say all my house mates loved it so i think i didnt do bad for a first timer. good recipe

yasminL18333 yasminL18333 Posted 10 Sep 2009 9:49 AM
 

just popped mine in the fridge i am hope it tastes as nice as it looks :s

yasminL18333 yasminL18333 Posted 08 Sep 2009 2:17 PM
 

I have a similar recipe to this, yes harvey, soft cheese like original philadelphia (or even any shop's own brand). I use vanilla sugar which is really caster sugar with vanilla flavouring (you can make your own by putting a vanilla pod in a jar with some caster sugar - or buy a wee container of it from the supermarket and just top it up with caster sugar as you use it - that way you always have vanilla sugar as the flavour keeps going, well maybe not indefinitely) I also add lemon rind and some juice, as well as beaten egg whites to make it lighter. My recipe is oh my gosh over thirty years old....,. but still get rave reports... so keep trying harvey - and i whip the cream lightly as well. and i use a combination of cottage cheese and soft cheese to give a different texture.

caledoni4 caledoni4 Posted 16 Aug 2009 4:32 PM
 

i am only just getting into cooking so i dont really knew alot but i was wondering if soft cheese is the same as creamed cheese and could be used instead

harveyJ39079 harveyJ39079 Posted 13 Aug 2009 9:20 AM
 

Recipe looks very scrumptious. Would love to make this cheesecake low fat - any suggestions with substitutions of full fat cream cheese and double cream. Would the cheesecake set okay using low fat cream cheese and lite cream.

irini1 irini1 Posted 10 Aug 2009 11:32 AM
 

irini1 irini1 Posted 10 Aug 2009 11:27 AM
 

mmmmmmmmmm....... yummy cant wait 2 make this 1!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^

ellieC8387 ellieC8387 Posted 30 Jul 2009 6:25 PM
 

Sweet, creamy, easy to make and all my guests love it.

Anonymous Anonymous Posted 04 Jul 2009 6:06 PM
 

its delicoussssssss 1ooooooooo-10 tassssty

Anonymous Anonymous Posted 04 Jul 2009 2:19 PM
 

I think this recipe it's easy and quick for a delicious result. It would be useful to also give some instructions on how to make sauces to pour when serving the cheesecake i.e. rasperry sauce.

Anonymous Anonymous Posted 02 Jul 2009 6:44 PM
 

sounds good

Anonymous Anonymous Posted 24 Jun 2009 6:26 PM
 

i made this for my bbq on sunday and it went down a storm with my guest! they eat the lot!

Anonymous Anonymous Posted 23 Jun 2009 11:43 AM
 

Well so far so good, added the lemon as someone else suggested, and did a little strawberry and lemon flower on the top....Now all left is the tasting, and proof is always in the pudding!!!.

leanneG21961 leanneG21961 Posted 04 Apr 2009 3:01 PM
 

u really want to put lemon juice plus lemon ZEST makes it tase beautiful brilliant recipe im still dribbling xxx

fsdsS38971 fsdsS38971 Posted 04 Oct 2008 5:45 PM
 

This was the first cheesecake i made and nobody would believe it was not shop brought, really simple to prepare and tasted great. I did add more base though and less topping as it is really sweet. Great recipe though x

Creasey1 Creasey1 Posted 05 Aug 2008 3:53 PM
 

Very sickly, even for me!! Next time I will make more of the base, as its quite thin, and less of the topping, but its very easy to make, and yummy too. Both my daughters love helping!!

mrsmbyemummyto3 mrsmbyemummyto3 Posted 28 Jul 2008 2:34 PM
 

it was so so so so so som so so so so so nice and it was so easy to make

tisha1 tisha1 Posted 17 Jul 2008 11:17 AM
 

that is so quick ,easy and tasty ,i put slice strawberrys on mine ,yum,yum

jackiev1 jackiev1 Posted 09 Jun 2008 7:02 PM