Cheesecake

[Hendrix55]

Has anyone a good recipe for cheesecake? The ones I have tried always come out a bit bland and sweet, and lack the savoury element that you seem to get in the shop ones (which are of course evil, factory produced things full of fake flavours and inverted palm oil and floor sweepeings etc).

[dothawkes]

I have eaten several dozen shop bought cheesecakes over the years, I don't think some of them are too bad, I shall buy some at the weekend and perform a quality controlled consumer test on them just for Hendrix55.

[Hendrix55]

Much obliged dothawkes...

I do like the shop ones, it just peeves me that I can't make one as nice myself.  Also I was outraged when I realised the one I recently bought in Sainsbury's cost over �4.

[Denise S.]

Hi - 

my favourite recipe 'Rich American Style Cheesecake'  10 crushed Digestive biscuits, 2 oz. melted butter (or marg) 2 oz. caster sugar. Mix and press into a loose bottom tin, chill well.     Beat together 8 oz. Philly Cheese, 3 oz. caster sugar until creamy.  Very slowly add 2 large beaten eggs (do not curdle) and mix well. Add 1 teas. Vanilla extract (not essence)   Add to the base and bake for 20 mins at 190 deg. C. Cool.  Mix together  5 oz. (sm.carton) soured cream, 2 tablespoons caster sugar, and 1 teas. Vanilla extract.   Pour onto the baked filling.   Put back into a hotter oven, 220 deg. C for 10 mins.     Chill well (preferably overnight)   I usually put strawberries, raspberries or whatever you fancy on the top. - delicious !!

[lady_p_gold]

If you are pushed for time there is a 'Greens cheesecake mix' usually located with the packet mix cakes and things .... its so easy you don't even need the cooker except to melt some butter and I think its yummy.  Stick a few things on the top and everyone thinks its homemade, which it sort of is.   It is on the sweet side though but maybe you could counteract that with a clever topping.

[funkychicken]

I recently made a cheesecake for my mums birthday and used a recipe on the sainsburys website, its called almond based peach melba cheesecake and my mum said it was the best cheesecake shes had in a very very long time and I'm not a cheesecake fan but I really liked it too. If you go on www.sainsburys.co.uk/recipe and type in peach melba its the first recipe that comes up.

[tell-me-more]

My cousin made an absolutely delicious lime cheesecake. Mum got the recipe off her, but now I need to get the recipe because I'm really wishing for it after I read your question. It's so tasty. I remember it had a base of ginger nuts, and the cheese used was mascarpone (which was really expensive). The ginger nuts are hard ******* and it takes hours of walloping with a wooden spoon and all sorts of other hi-tech solutions like that to get the crumbly base, but the result is the best cheesecake I've ever had.