Cardamom Cheesecake with Ginger Crust

Name: Cardamom Cheesecake with Ginger Crust
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 150 g/5 oz ginger biscuits; 225 g/8 oz cream cheese; 2 tablespoons full cream milk; 50 g/2 oz butter; 225 g/8 oz curd cheese; 1 level teaspoon salt; 2 large eggs; 1 level tablespoon cornflour; 75 g/3 oz caster sugar; 8 cardamom pods; icing sugar for dusting

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Josceline Dimbleby’s Complete Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1997

About

Cardamom is wonderful in milky or creamy puddings, the way it is so often used in Indian sweetmeats. This is a particularly good, rich cheesecake.

Ingredients

150 g/5 oz ginger biscuits
50 g/2

Dessert
Baking
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Crush the biscuits in a food processor, then turn them into a bowl. Gently melt the butter in a small saucepan, pour on to the biscuits and stir in. Press the mixture evenly over the bottom of a well-buttered 22-23 cm/8½-9