Baked Passion Fruit Cheesecake with Passion Fruit Curd

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8-10

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Ultimate Cheesecake Cookbook: Recipes from Around the World

By Michael Leventhal

Published 2025

  • About

I live in the subtropical climate of Byron Bay in northern New South Wales, Australia, so I am able to grow a passion fruit vine in my garden. It produces hundreds of yellow passion fruits, almost as big as tennis balls but ovoid and yellow like lemons. So, I frequently make jars of passion fruit curd. Here, to make it more stable, so that it sits without sliding on top of the cheesecake, I add half a teaspoon of cornflour to the eggs and sugar. For this recipe, I have assumed the more read