Simple Baked Cheese Cake

Been feeling rather lazy to bake because of the hot weather recently. I am craving for cheese cake today and yet eversince I know how to bake, I really don't feel like buying from the shop. I was searching around until I found this great and simple recipe. Its easy to bake the cake because the ingredients are so simple and easy to find.

Everything falls in place nicely today. After sending Vance to his kindergarten, I reached home and put the packet of Sunshine garlic bread to bake in the oven at 170 C. I just want to save time and at the same time, preheat the oven to the required temperature. Then I start to prepare the required ingredients for the cake that I am going to bake today. I had prepared the biscuits crust base a day earlier and let it set in the fridge. When I am done mixing all the ingredients and pour it into the crust to bake together in the oven, its time for me to take out the garlic bread toast to enjoy with my cup of strong espresso with fresh milk while the cake is baking. Then its time to prepare for lunch before going out to fetch the little monster home again. All in just 3 hrs time.

The recipe is as below.

Ingredients :

(Biscuit base)

Digestive biscuit (5pcs)

Melted butter (20g)

* Crust all the biscuits  and mixed well with the butter before pressing it firmly on a lined 15cm removable cake tin. Put it back to the fridge to let it set (can be done one day in advance).

(Cheese cream paste)

Philadelphia cream cheese 8oz (1pkt)

Sour cream (30g)

Castor sugar (60g)

2 eggs (beaten)

Fresh cream (100ml)

In a clean bowl, use a whisk to beat the cream cheese (put under room temperature to soften in advance, so that its easier to mash) and lightly mashed till creamy. Add in the sour cream and sugar and mix well till the sugar disolved and well blended. Then slowly add in the beaten egg, a little at a time and make sure its well blended in with the cream everytime. 

Lastly, add in the fresh cream slowly in two portion, making sure each portion is mixed well into the cream. Mix it until the texture is creamy and thick. Pour into the biscuit crust in the baking tin and put to bake at 170C preheat oven for 1hr or till the surface is brown and well expanded.

I should have taken the picture of the freshly baked cheese cake. Its very nice and high but once cooled, it is normal for the cheese cake to shrink to the size you see in the pictures above. Once is cooled, put it into the refrigerator to chill for one day before serving. Haha... usually its impossible because everyone will be asking when they can eat and I always let it chill for only an hour or 2 and before long, the whole cake will be gone.

Before serving, I decorated the top with some extra cream cheese icing and a fresh strawberry. It is simply delicious. Isnt it easy to prepare? Hope everyone can give it a try and tell me if you love it. We do! Enjoy!