Baked Vanilla Cheesecake

Ingredients:

* if prefer less sweet cheesecake, all the sugar measurements below can be reduced a bit.

Base:
85g butter (at room temperature or use melted butter, both ok)
168g digestive biscuits (or just 1 pack of the McVities Digestive Biscuits)
3 tbsp caster sugar

Filling:
168g curd cheese (or a box of the Philadelphia Soft Cheese)
1 egg
4 tbsp caster sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 lemon juice

Topping:
10 fl oz sour cream (or a box of the Diary Farm Sour Cream)
2 tbsp caster sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla essence

How to make this:

1. Preheat over to 180'C.

2. Grease cake tin with butter.

3. Crush digestive biscuits by putting biscuits into a ziploc bag (do it in a few times), put a towel on top of ziploc bag, and use a rolling pin or something hard to crush the biscuits on top of the towel. Sieve the crushed biscuits and discard the unseived biscuits (i.e. the coaser part) for other purpose (eg. feeding your four-legged friends!).

4. Add sugar and butter to the crushed biscuits, mix well and press into cake tin base. (just press well but not too hard, otherwise, difficult to cut after baking)

5. Prepare filling by beating cheese with egg, sugar, vanilla essence and lemon juice by electric whisk. Pour onto cake base (can gently drop the cake tin on table top a few times to ensure filling are evenly coated on top of the cake base and in the same level). Bake cake for 30 min. Take out and cool for 5 min at room temperature.

6. While cooling, reduce oven temperature to 160'C. Mix sugar with sour cream and vanilla essence and pour over cheesecake.

7. Bake for 10 min. Leave too cool, chill before serving.

Variation for Blueberry cheesecake:

a. Buy a box of blueberries, wash and wipe dry.

b. Crush them in a blender.

c. Sieve out the fine juice from the extracts from the blender.

d. Mix the fine blueberry juice with the cheese filling in step 5 above before pouring on top of cake base.

-> this photo is taken after the chese filling is baked and waiting for the sour cream top to be placed on top before the last baking of 10 min.

ENJOY!!