In our family one of the must have foods at any celebration is a cheesecake. The recipe is Mum’s and over the years I have made this lemon cheesecake my signature dessert.
I normally use a packet of biscuits as the base but now that Amy has Coeliacs I needed to make a gluten free base. So I simply adapted a basic biscuit recipe and made a baked crust instead.I was thrilled with the results.
I didn’t really follow a recipe for this biscuit mix I just flew by the seat of my pants and unlike the hommous disaster this worked out really well.
Cream 4 tablespoons of butter with a 1/2 a cup of sugar, add a few drops of vanilla essence and then beat in an egg. Then slowly add a 1 and a 1/2 cups of flour to the mix.(I mixed together equal parts gluten free plain flour with almond meal) keep on slowly beating in the flour until it is well mixed. This makes a soft dough.
I spread the mix, which was quite sticky onto the base and up the sides a bit of my spring form cake pan. I then baked it in a hot oven until it went not quite golden brown. I had a bit left over so I put dessertspoon sized blobs onto a baking tray squished a hole in the centre with my thumb, plonked some jam into the hole and baked them for about 12 minutes or until they were golden brown. These were really yummy little jam drops and I am pleased that I have found an easy, gluten free biscuit recipe to cook with Amy when she comes to visit.
Now back to the cheesecake. Here are the ingredients.
1 block of philadelphia cream cheese (250 g), 1 cup of sugar. 1 can of carnation milk, 1 packet of lemon jelly, 1 tsp of gelatine powder. 1 fresh lemon.
Put the carnation milk in the fridge the night before as it needs to be really cold.
Before you start put a large mixing bowl in the freezer to chill down.
Add one teaspoon of gelatine powder to a packet of lemon jelly crystals, stir well. Then add one cup of boiling water to the jelly, mix well and put it aside to cool down.
Soften the cream cheese in the microwave for 30 seconds. Add one cup of sugar to the cream cheese and beat to a smooth consistency. I also add the zest from one lemon to make it a bit zingy.
Now quickly put the cold carnation milk into the chilled bowl and beat until peaks will almost stand up by themselves.
Add the philly cheese mix and beat on slow
Add the jelly mix and beat on slow for a minute. Then finish mixing by hand.
Pour it into the cake pan and pop into the fridge to set overnight.
If you like a really lemony cheesecake you can add the juice of a lemon to the cup of boiling water before you make the jelly.
There you go. Enjoy. Any questions just ask me in the comments and I will answer them.
*Make sure the baked biscuit base is cool to the touch before you put the cheesecake mix into the pan.
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I’ll have to try that out on my lot. They love cheesecake. Thanks for the recipe.
I saw the quick snap of Amy on Vonnie’s blog, is it me or has she suddenly shot up? All of a sudden Amy has seemingly morphed into a long skinny streak lol! Love the frilly petticoats too.
Yes Amy has grown lol. The pettiskirt came from Tiff from My Three Ring Circus. Love the blogosphere.
Sounds yummy!
That’s similar to a recipe I make, good on you for being unafraid to convert it over 😉
Have you seen the 4 ingredients gluten free recipe book/a> ? We have their first book and it’s really good. 🙂
It sounds delicious and I’d like to make it, but the lemon jelly is a bit of a challenge here in Belgium? I think I’ll have to be inventive and find some kind of an alternitive!
How wonderful to have gluten free baking recipes for Amy. Enjoy the holidays Kim, I’m sure you’re going to have lots of quality time with Amy eh? Pictures please? I miss her!!
Yummmnesss. Will definitely try this one Kimmy. The hubz LOVES cheesecake a lot.
Mmmm, lemon cheesecake. We haven’t had that since L discovered lemon meringue pie. (he’d never had things like this as a kid, poor man had such a deprived life…)
I would love to try this one out but have no idea what the lemon jelly packet is!
@ April. Jelly is sold in America by Kraft as Jell-o. @Jientje let me know how you go. I can send you both a pkt or two of jelly,
yummo.
will have to try this when I have discovered a lactose alternative.
Lemon cheesecake – yum!! But I missed the cheesecake shot against faux marbley countertop pic.
Save me some, darlin!! YUM!
Sounds yummy. I need to get my baking boots back on, I haven’t done anything for a while, been a bit overwhelmed with life.
I might be able to adapt this for my soy-free (as well as gluten free) diet!!
I love cheesecake! Never seem to get it on a gluten free diet (even though it could easily be adapted to suit. I will have to try it out. I’m thinking I will have to do more at home as I trust these food service outlets less and less due to false advertising. :@