Italian cheesecake

Name: Italian cheesecake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Serves: 10–20
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons marsala (or sweet wine); 200 g amaretti biscuits, crushed to crumbs; 4 tablespoons marsala (or sweet wine); 100 g butter melted; 1 lemon, zest and juice; 500 g ricotta cheese; 250 g mascarpone; 150 ml double cream; 5 eggs; 275 g caster sugar; 1 large tablespoon plain flour

Preparation info

Serves:
10–20

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 15

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

Ricotta cheese is drier than cream cheese and has a more granular texture. That texture, mixed with the soft, sweet raisins is quite magical.

Ingredients

100 g raisins
4 tablespoons marsala (or sweet wine)
200

Europe
Italy
Dessert
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Put the raisins and Marsala in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Turn the heat off and leave to cool.
Line a 20cm cake tin with baking parchment (cut to 30cm diameter) and fold the edges as you go round. Do not cut it as you need to keep all the moisture inside as it cooks.
Mix the biscuit crumbs with melted butter and press into the bottom of the tin