Blackberry cheesecake squares
Ingredients
for 12 pieces
160 g | butter biscuit (e.g. Petit Beurre), crushed |
90 g | butter, soft |
1 | organic lemon, use grated zest only |
¼ tsp | sea salt |
50 g | blackberry jam |
400 g | double cream cheese (e.g. Philadelphia) |
80 g | ground cane sugar |
1 parcel | vanilla sugar |
2 pinch | gingerbread spice |
2 tbsp | Maizena cornflour |
3 | eggs |
1 pinch | salt |
200 g | blackberry |
300 g | blackberry |
1 ½ tbsp | lemon juice |
2 tsp | icing sugar |
How it's done
Base
Mix the biscuits, butter, lemon zest and salt. Transfer the mixture to the prepared tin, press flat, press down firmly, chill for approx. 30 mins. Spread the jam over the top.
Filling
Combine the cream cheese with all the other ingredients up to and including the salt, mix well using the whisk on a hand mixer. Stir in the blackberries, spread over the base.
To bake
Approx. 60 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 170°C. Remove from the oven, leave to cool in the tin, cut into squares. Mix the blackberries, lemon juice and icing sugar, serve with the cake.
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