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400g cream cheese
200g creme fraiche
50g ginger biscuits
50g digestive biscuits
50g butter
80g lemon curd
2 lemons
preparation 2 mins • you cook for 11 mins •
Makes a nice 8 inch cheesecake
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There's something about Mum's and puddings. They just do it best, and my mother-in-law is no exception. This cheesecake is so rich and moreish that between you and me, it was a key reason to me marrying into the family! It's a great dinner party dish also, as everything can be done in advance.
Small saucepan to melt the butter
Food processor
8 inch cake tin, greased and the base lined with baking parchment
Mixing bowl
Potato masher!
Spoon to stir
Spatula
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First you need to melt the butter, so put the saucepan on a low heat and add the butter and melt gently, whilst you sort out the biscuits. Put both types of biscuits into your food processor and blend until you've got a fine crumb. Bring over your pan of now melted butter and then empty the biscuit crumb into the butter and stir together.
Next bring in your cake tin and pour the biscuit in. Spread the biscuit around with your spoon to a roughly even layer, pushing it into the edges. Next take your potato masher and then press down all over to compact it in. Pop this in the fridge whilst you make the filling.
Add the cream cheese, the juice of 2 lemons and the lemon curd to your mixing bowl. Beat this together until you have a nice creamy mix. Don't worry if there are a few lumps, this will be the lemon curd and is fine. Next you need to add in the creme fraiche and gently fold it in.
Take your cake tin out of the fridge and then all you need to do is evenly pour on the filling. Using your spatula, scrape the bowl to get it all out and then smooth over the cheesecake.
Pop it in the fridge for 3 hours and you're done, after which time you should be able to safely remove the the tin...!
I hope that you enjoy it.
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