Valentine's baking recipe for 16 people, takes only 35 mins; recipe has butter, plain chocolate digestive biscuit, philadelphia cheese, golden caster sugar, plain flour, vanilla extract, tia maria, large egg, soured cream, soured cream, tia maria, cocoa and ferrero rocher.
Tia Maria cheesecake
Course: Valentines baking
Servings
16
servings
Prep time
30 mins
Ingredients
- Soured Cream: 285ml carton soured cream
- Butter: 85g hot melted butter, plus extra butter for greasing
- Plain Flour: 4 tbsp plain flour
- Golden Caster Sugar: 200g golden caster sugar
- Cocoa: cocoa, for dusting
- Vanilla Extract: 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Large Egg: 3 large eggs
- Philadelphia Cheese: 3 x 300g packs full-fat Philadelphia cheese
- Tia Maria: 2 tbsp Tia Maria
- Plain Chocolate Digestive Biscuit: 14 plain chocolate digestive biscuits, finely crushed
- Ferrero Rocher: 8 Ferrero Rocher chocolates, unwrapped
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Line the base of a 25cm springform tin with baking parchment. Blend butter and biscuit crumbs. Press onto the base of the tin, bake for 10 mins, then cool.
- Increase the oven temperature to 240C/fan 200C/gas 9. Beat the cheese and sugar with an electric whisk until smooth, then whisk in the flour, vanilla, 2 tbsp Tia Maria, eggs and 285ml soured cream.
- Grease sides of the cake tin with butter. Pour in the mixture and smooth. Bake for 10 mins, then turn oven down to 110C/fan 90C/ gas 1/4 for 25 mins. Turn off the oven, then open the door and leave to cool inside the oven for 2 hrs. Don't worry if it cracks a little.
- Mix 142ml soured cream and Tia Maria, then smooth on top of the cheesecake. Chill.
