Basque cheesecake with sweet spices

An obsession with Basque cheesecake overtook the UK in 2021, leading The Times to dub it ‘the pudding that broke the internet’. Such a rise in fashion invites an inevitable fall, but I am sure that long after the hype has gone this tender-bellied beauty with a bittersweet, burnished top will be received at any table with relish. Maybe, like salted caramel, it will move from modish to classic.

My version is a cheesecake no Basque would recognis