Summer Berry Baked Vanilla Cheesecake
Ingredients
Base
200g digestive biscuits finely crushed
100g melted butter
Filling
350g full fat crème fraiche
250g ricotta cheese
150g cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
200g caster sugar
30g cornflour
3 eggs beaten together
Decorate
1 x 300g punnet raspberries
6 strawberries ( 2 cut in half and 4 cut into quarters)
400g blueberries
Method
Preheat the oven 150°C / 140°C fan/ gas mark 2
1 stoneware fluted flan dish
- Mix together the crushed biscuits and melted butter
- Press the biscuit mixture into the base of the flan dish and bake in the oven for 15 minutes
- To make the filling place the crème fraiche, ricotta, cream cheese, vanilla paste and caster sugar in a bowl and mix until smooth
- Blend the cornflour into the beaten eggs
- Add the egg mixture to the cream cheese mixture and whisk well together
- Remove the flan dish from the oven and place the flan dish on a tray , carefully pour the mixture on top of the biscuit base and put in the oven to bake for 50 – 55 minutes until the mixture is starting to set but slightly wibbly in the middle
- Leave to go completely cold and then refrigerate
- When ready to serve decorate with the berries to make the pattern of the Union Jack