Recipes - Sweets
Stilton Party Cheesecake
A grand finale to any meal, the delicate aroma and taste that are uniquely Stilton come through beautifully.
Ingredients
- 225g/8oz English Blue Stilton
- 2 x 225g/8oz packets cream cheese
- 3 eggs
- 110g/4oz sugar
- 25g/1oz flour
- 250ml/8floz sour cream
- 2 tablespoons dry vermouth or lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 25g/1oz butter or magarine, melted
- 175g/6oz crushed ginger nut biscuits
Method
Set oven at 160C/325F/Gas mark 3
Place crumbled Stilton, sugar and cream cheese into a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until well blended. Beat in eggs, one at a time until smooth and creamy. Add vanilla. Stir in flour, sour cream and dry vermouth or lemon juice until well blended.
Combine melted butter and crushed biscuits in a bowl until mixed and press into the bottom of a 9-inch loose bottomed flan dish.
Pour cheese mixture over the biscuit base. Bake in slow oven for about 1 hour, or until firm.
Turn off heat and let cake cool in oven for 1 hour. Then cool on wire rack for a further 1 hour. Cover pan with cling film and refrigerate unitl ready to serve.
To serve, loosen cake from side of dish with a narrow knife and remove.
(This cheese cake freezes well)
Makes a 9-inch cake
Recipe by Tuxford & Tebbutt