Tuesday 15 January 2008

Plain Chilled Cheese Cake

Ingredients:
75gm butter
200gm digestive biscuits, crushed
450gm Cream Cheese, at room temperature
100ml milk
120gm caster sugar
Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
1 sachet of gelatine (10gm), dissolved in 3 tablespoons of hot water
100ml cooking cream, lightly whipped

Method:
1. Line the spring-form cake tin with greese proved paper.
2. Melt the butter and mix with the crushed biscuit crumbs.
3. Press into the base of a 20cm spring-form cake tin. Chill until needed.
4. Beat the cream cheese until silky smooth.
5. Add the milk, sugar, lemon rind and juice. Mix throughly.
6. Stir the gelatine into the cream cheese mixture and then fold in the cream.
7. Pour onto the crumb base and chill until set.

Tips:
1. You may use any brand of cream cheese like Philadelphia or Anchor.
2. Mix the sugar and milk in advance, so it's dissolved well when you mix it in the cream cheese mixture.
3. Whipped the cooking cream in advance, while you preparing for all the ingredients.
4. I always like to prepare all the ingredients in advance. It helps make the working area tidy and smooth to making process and you will not forgot things. After all, it is much easier to clean up as well.

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