Baked Strawberry Cheesecake

This baked strawberry cheesecake has strawberries in the cake, strawberries on top and strawberries in the sauce. If you like strawberries and cheesecake…

Ingredients

8 digestive biscuits
50g butter
600g cream cheese
2 tbsp plain flour
175g caster sugar
a couple of drops of vanilla extract
2 full eggs , plus 1 extra yolk!
150ml creme fraiche
300g strawberries
1 tablespoon of icing sugar

Equipment

A 20cm circular cake tin
A medium sized pan
A mixing bowl, wooden spoon & a whisk

How to make your Strawberry Cheesecake

1. Heat the oven to 180C / gas 4.

2. Put the buscuits in a plastic bag and bash then with a rolling pin until they’re crushed!

3. Melt the butter in the pan. Mix the crushed buiscuits with the melted butter.

4. Press the biscuity mixture into the tin, making sure it’s completely level. Stick the tin in the oven for just 5 minutes. Take it out and leave it to cool.

5. Now for the topping. In the bowl, mix up the:

- cream cheese
- flour
- sugar
- vanilla extract
- 2 full eggs and a yolk (catch the yolk in your fingers over the sink!)
- creme fraiche.

Get rid of the lumps with the spoon. Then use then whisk until the mixture is smooth and light, like melted ice-cream.

6. Chop about half of the strawberries in good-sized lumps and stir them into the mixture too.

7. Pour this fruity, cheesecakey mixture into the tin. Put the tin back in the oven for another 40 minutes.

8. Check your cheesecake. It should be set but slightly wobbly in the centre. If so, take it out and leave it in the tin to cool.

9. Hold a few strawberries back, and put the rest in the pan with the icing sugar. Heat them up until they’re juicy and then squash them with a fork! Your sauce is ready.

Serve your cheesecake with some sliced strawberries on top and the strawberry sauce poured over.

Berry, berry nice.

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