Baked cheesecake with a ginger crust

Name: Baked cheesecake with a ginger crust
Yield: Serves 6-8
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 level tablespoon cornflour; 225 g curd cheese; icing sugar for dusting (optional); 2 tablespoons whole milk; 75 g golden caster sugar ½ level teaspoon salt; 225 g cream cheese; 150 g ginger biscuits; 50 g butter, plus extra for greasing; 2 large free-range eggs, separated

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Orchards in the Oasis

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 2010

About

Only when I reached New York did I realise how luscious a baked cheesecake can be. It started me off on endless experiments - finely grated orange or lemon rind is a good addition to this one.

Ingredients

150 g ginger biscuits
50 g butter, plus extra for greasing
225

Americas
United States
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Butter a loose-based 22-23 cm round cake tin. Crush the biscuits in a food processor and turn into a large bowl. Melt the butter, pour onto the biscuits and stir to combine. Press evenly over the bottom of the cake tin and chill.

Heat the oven to