White chocolate cheesecake

Preparation: 30 mins to 1 hour
Cooking time: 30 mins to 1 hour
Makes 1 x 25cm/10in cake

Ingredients

  • 450g/1lb soft cream cheese
  • 4 large free-range eggs
  • 1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped out
  • 225g/8oz good quality white chocolate
  • 225g/8oz crème fraîche
  • butter, for greasing
  • 55g/2oz biscuit crumbs, to dust over the buttered tin (use any type you love - chocolate digestives are good)

Method

  1. Beat the cream cheese in a bowl until soft, then add the eggs one by one, along with the seeds scraped from the vanilla pod.

  2. Melt the white chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water, then fold in the crème fraîche until smooth.

  3. Fold the chocolate mixture into the cream cheese mixture.

  4. Grease a 25cm/10in cake tin and sprinkle the base with the biscuit crumbs to cover. Pour the chocolate and cream cheese mixture into the tin and bang down on a firm surface to remove any air bubbles.

  5. Bake in a low oven, 150C/300F/Gas 2, for 45 minutes-1 hour, or until the centre is just firm.

  6. Allow to rest for several hours to firm up, before turning out and serving.

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