Fudgy Lemon Cheesecake

If I could have just one cheesecake (an unthinkable scenario), it would be of the deep, fudgy variety, heatly with vanilla freckles, so thick and ‘clarty’ it sticks to the roof of your mouth. I developed such a cheesecake for the first volume of The Kitchen Diaries and most of my subsequent ones (sour cherry, 2011, Christmas mincemeat, 2012, and gooseberry cheesecake slice, 2018) have been riffs on that. The exception was the over-the-top white chocolate and peanut butter recipe that