Chessecake is one of our favourite desserts. There are lots of recipes and styles to bake it. This particular one is our pereferred.
As this is the basic preparation, you may top it with your favourite flavour: fruit, whipped cream, nuts, fruit sauce, and/or chocolate syrup.
INGREDIENTS
Crust
- 200 gr. Digestive cookies
- 150 gr. white sugar
- 125 gr. butter
- ½ dl flour
Filling
- 1 kg. Philadelphia cheese
- 150 gr. white sugar
- the juice of 2 limes
- 5 XL-sized eggs
COOKING METHOD
Crust
Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Grease with butter and flour a baking pan with a removable base. Mix up well all the ingredient for the crust until it is an homogeneous pastry. Cover the bottom of the baking pan and bake 10 min. at 180ºC. As soon as the crust is baked, take it out and increase the oven’s temperature to 200ºC
Filling
Mix up well with the food-processor the cheese, the limejuice and the sugar, while you add the eggs one by one, not adding the next until the prior one is well integrated in the cream. Spoon the mixture on the crust, cover it with tin-foil and bake the cake during 20 min. at 200ºC
Topping
To taste
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