I’m starting to like making cheesecakes, I mean, don’t get me wrong, I still like absolutely love making tiramisus, but as we’re going to the New York on holidays this year, I’m getting into the I Heart NY kind of mood, and cheesecake is the closest thing they have to tiramisu over there. So here we go with a baked lemon cheesecake recipe. I can’t say I ever tried an original New York Cheesecake, but this recipe was brought to me by an American friend so… you’ll tell me.
The ingredients for this easy lemon cheesecake are for a relatively small loose-bottomed tin, of 20cm diameter.
For the base:
60gr butter, melted
60gr sugar
150gr rich tea biscuits (or digestive, but the plainer the better)
For the cream (1st part):
450gr Philadelphia
230gr sugar
Juice of two lemons
1 tsp vanilla extract
For the cream (2nd part):
450gr sour cream
60gr sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
For the base you know what to do: crumble the biscuits, add the melted butter and the sugar and mix. Grease the tin with butter and dust it with sugar, then pour the base in it. Gently press it and level it with a spoon and put it in the fridge. One more thing you should do is keeping about one third of the base aside and use it to cover the sides of the tin as well
Now prepare the first part of the cream for this simple lemon cheesecake recipe.
Preheat the oven at 180ºC. Work the Philadelphia cheese on its own with a fork, until softer and loose, then add sugar, lemon juice and the vanilla extract.
Take the base out of the fridge, pour the cream on top, and bake for 20 minutes.
In the meantime go on with the second part if the cream of this lemon cheesecake, by mixing the ingredients together. Take the tin out of the oven and – very gently as the crust of Philadelphia will be very hot and will break very easily – pour it on top. Bake for 20 more minutes. Once it has cooled completely, keep in the fridge for 24 hours before serving
And this is how to make lemon cheesecake and while you’re at it, don’t forget to check the strawberry cheesecake recipe from last time.