Banana Cheesecake

Name: Banana Cheesecake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 2 eggs, separated; 150 g (5½ oz) soured cream; 120 g (4 oz) caster sugar; 250 g (9 oz) cream cheese; 5 tbsp water; 50 g (1¾ oz) caster sugar; 1½ bronze gelatin leaves (or 12 g (⅓ oz) powdered gelatin); 1½ bronze gelatin leaves (or 12 g (⅓ oz) powdered gelatin); 1 large banana, sliced; 60 g (2 oz) caster sugar; 120 g (4 oz) chocolate digestive biscuits, crushed; 2 ripe bananas; juice and finely grated zest of ½ lemon; 60 g (2 oz) butter

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

World's Best Cakes

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

About

This super-easy, non-baked cheesecake produces nonetheless impressive results, as you can see opposite. The winning combination of the bananas with the chocolate digestives is always delicious and popular.

Ingredients

For the base

60 g (2 oz) butter
60 g (2

Cake

Method

Grease a 21cm (8in) springform cake tin.
For the base, in a pan melt the butter and the sugar together over a gentle heat then stir in the crushed biscuits until fully mixed. Spread evenly over the base of the prepared cake tin and press down firmly. Chill for at least 30 minutes.
Break up the bananas into a large mixing bowl along with the lemon juic