Luscious Lemon Baked Cheesecake

By maredan

Ingredients

• 225 g digestive biscuits
• 100 g butter , melted
• 250 g tub mascarpone
• 600 g soft cheese
• 2 eggs , plus 2 yolks
• zest 3 lemons , juice of 1
• 4 tbsp plain flour
• 175 g caster sugar
• FOR THE TOPPING
• 1/2 a 284ml pot soured cream
• 3 tbsp lemon curd
• handful raspberries , to serve (optional)

Details

Servings 10

Preparation

Step 1

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Line the bottom of a 23cm springform tin with greaseproof paper. Tip the biscuits and melted butter into a food processor, then blitz to make fine crumbs. Press into the tin and chill.
Whisk all the other ingredients in a large bowl until completely combined, pour into the tin, then bake for 35-40 mins until the cheesecake has a uniform wobble.
Turn off the oven and leave the cake inside until cool. When it is completely cooled, remove from the tin and top with soured cream. Swirl lemon curd over the top and decorate with raspberries, if you like.

Tip
To turn this tasty dessert into an orange or lime-flavoured cake, simply swap the zest and juice of lemon to that of your chosen citrus fruit.