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Caption: Cheesecake
Christmas Celebration
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Caption: Don’t think that you can’t use any of your favourite dessert recipes to celebrate Christmas Day. A little bit of imaginative decoration can see any cake or dessert dressed up sufficiently to pass any Christmas celebration dress code!
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Caption: Sometimes baked cheesecakes crack, although I've never had one crack quite as much as this one did!
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Caption: INGREDIENTS
500g cream cheese (room temperature)
500g ricotta (room temperature)
500ml sour cream
300g sugar
4 large eggs
60g melted butter
3 tablespoons plain flour
3 tablespoons cornflour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 teaspoons lemon zest
METHOD
Preheat oven to 160°C ventilated oven or 180°C static.
Beat cream cheese with electric mixer until light and creamy.
Add ricotta and sugar.
Add eggs, one at a time and mix well.
Add butter, flours, vanilla and lemon zest, mix until combined
Fold in sour cream.
Pour mixture into an ungreased 23cm (9″) spring-form cake tin.
Bake on the middle shelf for 1.5 to 2 hours. (Until slightly golden on top). Once cooked, turn off oven and without opening door, leave the cheesecake in oven for 2 hours.
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Caption: Extra tips..... *Allow cheesecake to cool in cake tin and chill for at least 2 hours prior to serving. I usually bake it the day before it is required, and place it in the fridge overnight.
**My mother usually served her cheesecake decorated with strawberries. I decorated mine here with berries to make it more festive for Christmas, but then photographed it a second time, with seedless raspberry jam on top.
***Although my mother never added a biscuit base to this cheesecake, if you wish to, use 150g of sweet biscuits or digestives, mixed with 80g melted butter. Press into base of cake tin before adding cheesecake mixture. I use a ‘cake smoother’ (from my cake decorating supplies) to ensure a perfectly straight and even base.
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Caption: May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown
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