Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2006/January 2007 | Page 85

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Recipe from
Tim Morgan

Vanilla
Cheesecake

Serves 8 20 Digestive biscuits
100g Butter
4 Large eggs
280g Caster sugar
4000g Philadelphia cheese
3 teaspoons Vanilla essence
30g Sour cream
1 Vanilla pod
Base:
Break the digestive biscuits
into fine crumbs.
Melt the butter and add to
crumbs with 50g of caster
sugar and mix well.
Place the mixture into an 8”
cake tin and spread around
the base and half way up the
sides of the tin. Chill for 5
minutes.
Mix:
Beat the cream cheese until
smooth and add 90g of caster
sugar and vanilla essence.
Very slowly add the 4 whisked
eggs to the mix.
Place the mix into the biscuit
case and bake at gas mark 5
/ 190oC in a pre heated oven
for 20 minutes.
Leave to cool for 15 minutes.
Mix the sour cream, remaining caster sugar and vanilla
pod. (To remove the seeds
from the vanilla pod, split
the pod down the middle and
scrape the knife along the
inside).
Place the mix on top of the
cheesecake and bake at gas
mark 7 / 220oC for 10 minutes. Cool for 6 hours before
serving.

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Ah, it’s that time of year again
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