Name: Amaretti & sultana cheesecake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 100g sultana; 3 tbsp amaretto plus extra to serve (optional); 50g butter plus extra for greasing; 6 digestive biscuits crushed to crumbs; 8 amaretti biscuits crushed to crumbs; 2 x 300g packs full-fat cream cheese; 3 eggs; 170g pot soured cream; 3 tbsp self-raising flour; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 175g golden caster sugar; icing sugar to serve; roughly broken amaretti biscuits to serve

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Amaretti & sultana cheesecake

Amaretti & sultana cheesecake

Sara Buenfeld

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Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 35 mins

Plus soaking

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Crunchy Italian amaretti biscuits and almond liqueur are the key in this baked creamy pudding

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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100g sultana
3 tbsp amaretto

plus extra to serve (optional)
50g butter

plus extra for greasing
6 digestive biscuits

crushed to crumbs
8 amaretti biscuits

crushed to crumbs
2 x 300g packs full-fat cream cheese
3 eggs
170g pot soured cream
3 tbsp self-raising flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
175g golden caster sugar
icing sugar

to serve
roughly broken amaretti biscuits

to serve

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Nutrition: per slice

kcal654
fat49g
saturates30g
carbs42g
sugars34g
fibre1g
protein7g
salt1g

low

Method

step 1

Tip the sultanas into a bowl, add the amaretto and set aside to soak for 1 hr. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and lightly grease a 23cm loose-bottomed round cake tin. Melt the butter in a pan over a gentle heat and stir in the biscuit crumbs. Mix well, tip into the base of the tin and push down to compress it. Bake for 5 mins, then remove from the oven and allow to cool.
step 2

Meanwhile, beat the cheese with the eggs, soured cream, flour, vanilla and caster sugar – preferably with an electric whisk so it is nice and smooth. Stir in the sultanas (and any amaretto left in the bowl), then pour onto the base. Bake for 30 mins until set but still with a slight wobble in the centre. Cool in the tin. Can be made 2 days ahead and chilled.
step 3

To serve, carefully turn out, dust with icing sugar and top with some broken amaretti biscuits. Serve with chilled glasses of amaretto, if you like.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2013

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