Didn't feel very well this morning so decided to give the birding a miss 😢. Instead decided to make a baked Cheesecake .😋 I found a recipe that looked good Amaretti and Sultana Cheesecake, Yum!! This was in the (it turns out mistaken) belief we had a bottle of Amaretto in the cupboard!! On discovering we hadn't and also realising we didn't have any Amaretti biscuits either (why would we!!?😏) some serious readjustments were required. Luckily I had some ground almonds left over from the Christmas cake marzipan frenzy so mixed them in with the digestives for the base, soaked the Sultanas in Organic Brandy (also left over from the Xmas Cake!) and bunged in some Moroccan Almond extract, jobs a good un!!!😋
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| Probably won't use the whole bottle to soak the sultannas |
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| Cheese and Biscuits |
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| Pound those biccies |
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| Melt the butter |
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| 3 required! |
So made the base and baked for 5 mins in the oven,. then left to cool. Mixed all the ingredients together in the big mixer and poured on to the now cooled base in the oven for 30 minutes ,this turned out to be not long enough, but noticed the "wobble" was in fact a completely liquid center so left in the oven for another 20mins,this may have been due to me only have 500grams of Cream Cheese instead of the 600 required by the recipe!!!😮😲 Then cooled it in the oven with the door open,this wasn't in our recipe but saw it on another one so decided to do it cos that's how I roll!!😁
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| Base ready to go!! |
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| Mixture in the tin, think the sultanas gonna be at the bottom!! |
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| Looking good cooling in the oven |
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| Looking Good!! |
So out of the tin the edge looks a bit funny, maybe leaving in the oven was a mistake!!!?😏
Well a couple of hours in the fridge and the result is a resounding success, faint almondy taste and an excellent cheesecake flavour though couldn't really taste the brandy and as predicted all the Sultanas were at the bottom, probably shouldn't have left it in the oven but all in all a delicious pudding!!
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| Quite a bit left for tomorrow! |
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| Margie went down the cream route |
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| Whilst I had mine naked!! |
A triumph and apologies if you are imagining me naked eating a cheesecake!!😁😁😁😁😁😁
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