Cream Cheese Shortbread Flan

Name: Cream Cheese Shortbread Flan
Ingredients: 9 oz plain flour (250 g); demerara sugar; 3 oz caster sugar (75 g); a little butter; ¼ pint (double) cream – whipped (150 ml); 3 oz whole almonds (75 g); handful of raisins; 2 oz caster sugar – to taste (50 g); 8 oz butter (200 g); 8 oz cream cheese (225 g)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

This simple mixture of cream cheese, whipped cream and sugar is really luxurious tasting I also use it as a filling for cakes but used in a rich shortbread flan it is especially good.

Ingredients

For the Shortbread Case

9 oz plain flour (250 g)
3 oz caster sugar

Dessert
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Grease and flour an 8–9 in (20–23 cm) flan dish. Sift the flour and add the sugar. Knead the butter, keeping it in one piece, into the flour and sugar until they are gradually worked in. Knead well and the