Baked Cheesecake

Let’s bake a Baked Cheesecake 🍰🫐🍋

Ingredients 🍪🧈🍚🍋🥚🥛
For the Cheesecake
• 250g Digestive Biscuits or Graham Crackers (2 Cups, crushed)
• 90g Melted Butter (6 Tablespoons)
• 680g Cream Cheese (3 Cups)
• 150g Caster Sugar (¾ Cup)
• 20g Plain Flour (2½ Tablespoons)
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract (1 Teaspoon)
• Zest of 1 Full Lemon
• 2 Eggs
• 1 Egg Yolk
• 60ml Whole Milk or Double Cream (¼ Cup)

For the Blueberry Sauce 🍋🫐🍚
• 200g Fresh or Frozen Blueberries (1½ Cups)
• 100g Sugar (½ Cup)
• Juice of 1 Lemon (2–3 Tablespoons)

Method 📖
1. Preheat the oven to 160°C (325°F), and line a cake tin with parchment paper.
2. Melt the butter in the microwave or in a saucepan over low heat.
3. Crush the biscuits using a food processor or place them in a ziplock bag and crush with a rolling pin until fine.
4. Combine the crumbs with the melted butter and press into the prepared cake tin. Chill in the fridge to firm up.
5. Make the filling: In a large bowl, add the cream cheese, caster sugar, flour, vanilla extract, and lemon zest. Beat until smooth.
6. Add eggs: Crack eggs into small glass bowl and check. Into the large bowl. mix in the eggs, egg yolk, & milk (or cream). Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Mix until fully combined.
7. Grease the tin rim lightly with a little butter. Pour the filling over the chilled biscuit base.
8. Bake for 1 hour, or until the centre still jiggles slightly but the edges are set.
9. Cool gradually: Turn off the oven and leave the cheesecake inside with the door slightly open for at least 1 hour.
10. Chill thoroughly: Let the cheesecake cool completely at room temperature, then refrigerate for at least 4 hours (or overnight).
11. Make the blueberry sauce: In a saucepan, combine the blueberries & sugar. Bring to a boil.
12. Simmer gently until sugar dissolves & most blueberries remain whole. Let cool completely.
13. Add lemon juice to the cooled sauce, 1 teaspoon at a time, until the flavour is balanced to your taste.

Once both the cheesecake and blueberry sauce are chilled, spoon the sauce over the cake and serve.