Baked Cheesecake

Ive always wanted a good baked cheesecake recipe but a lot of the recipes seemed a bit complicated.  I wanted baked as I’m not that fond of the gelatin based wobbly cold cheesecakes. They look so tasty but just dont live up to their looks. My friend Marina gave me this recipe last week and so for Bella’s 12th birthday on Monday we tried it . It was so simple that the kids helped make it.

Oh my goodness , it was sooo good!. There were fights in our house over the last piece and over who got to clean out the tin . This is now going to be  a regular here.

Marinas  Baked Cheesecake

4 x 200g  tubs Cream cheese (we used the tesco  own brand cheese, Lidl has one too)

1 small tub sour cream

3 eggs

1/2 – 2/3 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

chocolate pieces ( optional we used 100g of 70% dark chocolate chopped up)

beat the eggs and add the rest of the wet ingredients and mix untill smooth

for the biscuit base use

approx 1 pack biscuits crushed (we used a mix of chocolate chip cookies and oat cookies )

mix with enough melted butter to bind about 1/2 cup and pat into  the base of a tin . we used a 9 inch cake pan . If you have enough pat it up the sides too.

Pour half of the cheese mix onto the biscuit base add half the chocolate pour on the rest then sprinkle on the remaining chocolate.

bake at about 210 degrees for 15 mins then turn oven down to 180 for 1/2 hour . check it .it should be just browned in the middle of the top . When it is, turn off the oven and leave leave the cake in the warm oven to finish cooking for about an hour, then remove . Let it cool to room temp then put in the fridge for a few hours.

You can serve with a nice fruit jam or coulis but we ate it without it was so good.

Thanks to Marina for sharing this fabulous recipe