Desserts Recipes - Creamy Plum Cheesecake Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 6

• 125 g/4 oz butter

• 2 tablespoons golden syrup

• 300 g/10 oz digestive biscuits, finely crushed

• 350 g/12 oz yellow plums, stoned and sliced

• 50 g/2 oz ratafia biscuits, crushed

• 65 g/2 1/2 oz caster sugar

• 250 g/8 oz cottage cheese, sieved

• 250 g/8 oz cream cheese

• 150 ml/1/4 pint soured cream

To decorate:

• ratafia biscuits

• whipped cream

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Method:

1. Place the butter and syrup in a pan and heat gently until melted. Stir in the biscuit crumbs and spread over the base and up the side of a 23 cm/9 inch loose­ bottomed cake tin.

2. Arrange the plums on the biscuit base and sprinkle with the ratafia crumbs and 15 g/1/2 oz of the sugar.

3. Beat together the cheeses, soured cream and the remaining sugar until well blended, then pour the mixture over the plums.

4. Bake the cheesecake in a preheated oven, 150°C (300°F), Gas Mark 2, for 1 hour. Turn off the heat and leave it in the oven until cool. Chill overnight or for several hours.

5. Carefully transfer the cheesecake to a serving plate and decorate with ratafia biscuits and piped cream.