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Dairy Council

Young Cook Finalist Recipes

Baked Raspberry Cheesecake

Servings
Serves 8
Chef
Émer Caughy
School
Our Lady and St Patrick’s College, Knock, Belfast
Teacher
Mrs Gallagher Key Stage 4

Ingredients

8 digestive biscuits

50g Northern Ireland half–fat butter, melted

600g Northern Ireland cream cheese

2 tbsp plain flour

175g caster sugar

Vanilla extract

2 eggs, plus

1 yolk

142ml Northern Ireland low–fat soured cream

300g raspberries Icing sugar to decorate

Servings
Serves 8
Chef
Émer Caughy
School
Our Lady and St Patrick’s College, Knock, Belfast
Teacher
Mrs Gallagher Key Stage 4

Method

Heat the oven to 180ºC / fan 160ºC / gas 4. Crush the digestive biscuits in a food processor (or put in a plastic bag and bash with a rolling pin). Mix with the melted butter. Press into individual springform tins and bake for 5 minutes, then cool.

Beat the cream cheese with the flour, caster sugar, a few drops of vanilla extract, the eggs and egg yolk and the pot of soured cream until light and fluffy. Stir half the raspberries, and divide between the tins. Bake for 20 minutes and then check, they should be set but slightly wobbly in the centre. Leave in the tins to cool.

Using the remaining raspberries, keep a few for the tops and put the rest in a pan with the icing sugar. Heat until juicy and then squash with a fork. Push through a sieve.

Serve the cheesecakes with the raspberry sauce and raspberries.