Blueberry Cheesecake Recipe
Blueberry Cheesecake Recipe
Ingredients
For Cheesecake Base:
- 200 g plain biscuits
- 8 tbsp butter, unsalted
For Cheesecake Filling:
- 250 g blueberries
- 2 tbsp all purpose flour / maida
- 500 g cream cheese
- ½ cup sour cream
- 3 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- lemon zest
For Topping:
- 2 tbsp water
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 ½ tsp cornflour
- 375 g blueberries
Instructions
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 160°C/320°F.
- Make ready Cake Tin by butter lightly in the base of it and then place a baking or parchment paper. Cut out the excess paper. Use a 20cm/8" springform Cake Tin. Also, butter the side of the Cake Tin.
Method
For Cake Base:
- Roughly break biscuits in a Food Processor and turn them into fine crumbs.
- Now, add butter and briefly blitz until dispersed and it resembles like wet sand. Then, pour it into the prepared Cake Tin. Using a Spatula, roughly spread it out over the base and up the walls
- Press the crumbs up the wall almost to the top of the sides, and flatten the base. You could use Spatula or Cup or Small Bowl.
Filling:
- Using a Hand Mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth, no longer than 20 seconds.
- Add flour and beat for 5 seconds or until just incorporated.
- Now, add vanilla extract, sugar, sour cream and lemon zest. Beat until just combined for almost 10 seconds.
- Then, add eggs and beat until smooth. Stir in blueberries with a Spatula and pour into prepared crust.
- Bake for 70 minutes. The top should be a bit puffed, very light golden brown, almost flat and not cracked. It should jiggle slightly when you gently shake the Cake Tin.
- Cool the cake in the Oven with the door open for about 2 hours, then refrigerate for 4 hours+ in the Cake Tin or overnight.
- Remove cake from the Cake Tin.
Topping:
- Place 1 cup of blueberries, sugar, vanilla, and lemon juice in a Saucepan. Stir well and simmer over medium heat for 7 minutes until blueberries breakdown.
- Now, mix corn flour and water, then stir in. It will thicken quickly.
- Stir in remaining blueberries. Sauce should be syrupy, then remove from heat and let it cool down. It will thicken as it cools.
- Once cool down, stir. Adjust thickness by adding ½ tsp of water at a time to make it the required consistency. Do not add too much water and make it runny. Completely cover the cake with the sauce. Refrigerate the remaining sauce.
- Your Blueberry Cheesecake is ready to serve!
Equipment Used for This Recipe
- Cake Tin
Notes & Tips
- Choosing Biscuits: Any plain sweet biscuits or crackers will work, you need 2 cups of crumbs.
- Cream Cheese: In some parts of Europe, block cream cheese isn't available. If you can only get spreadable cream cheese in tubs, then skip the sour cream.
- Choosing Blueberries: fresh or frozen. If using frozen, do not thaw before adding into batter, and add 5 minutes onto the bake time. Other berries like blackberries and raspberries should work with no alteration to the recipe as they have similar cooking qualities to blueberries.
- Crumbs: You could crush them in a Ziplock Bag using Rolling Pin or Small Bowl.
- Cool in oven: This ensures creamy inside and stops surface from cracking.
- Blueberry topping: It should be like thick syrup consistency, not a set jelly.
- Storage: You can store this Blueberry Cheesecake in fridge for up to 3 days.
- Ingredients & Equipment: Find these Ingredients & Equipment at specialty food stores or online stores. For review of some stores, please refer to the Grocery Review Section on our Website.
Nutrition Information (Note: Approximate)
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