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Blueberry crumble cheesecake
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Blueberry crumble cheesecake

Who is on a cheesecake spree? Why not master baking this cheesecake recipe for your loved one? Leave me a comment if you have any questions!
Prep Time 30 minutes
Baking Time 35 minutes
Servings: 1 Whole cake
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Japanese

Ingredients
  

Base (Bottom layer)
  • 20 g Unsalted butter
  • 80 g Digestive biscuits
Cheesecake
  • 30 g Sugar
  • 15 g Cake flour
  • 140 g Blueberries
  • 2 tsp Lemon juice
  • 200 g Cream cheese
  • 200 ml Double cream
  • 2 Large eggs
Crumbles
  • 20 g Unsalted butter
  • 35 g Cake flour
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • 15 g Sugar
  • 35 g Ground almonds

Method
 

Base
  1. Put 80g Digestive biscuits into a food bag and use a rolling pin to break it into pieces. 
  2. Add 20g melted butter into the food bag from Step 1 and hand press it from the outer layer to make it sticky. 
  3. Transfer the biscuit mixture into a cake tin (15cm diameter) and press it against the bottom tin using the back of the spoon.
  4. Place the cake tin in the fridge to cool it for 20 minutes.
Cheesecake
  1. Add 200g cream cheese, 30g sugar, 200ml double cream, 2 large eggs into a mixing bowl and stir thoroughly. 
  2. Sift 10g cake flour on top of the batter (from Step 7) and whisk it until the mixture becomes sticky. 
  3. Add grated lemon zest (from 1 lemon) and 2tsp of lemon juice. (Adjust the sourness according to your preference!)
  4. Pour the mixtures from Step 9 into the cake tin on top of the biscuit layer and cool it for 30 minutes.
Crumbles
  1. Add 35g ground almonds, 35g cake flour, 15g sugar, and 1/2 tsp salt into a mixing bowl.
  2. Cut 20g unsalted butter into small pieces and pinch it into tiny crumbles in the mixing bowl (from Step 11). 
Final layer
  1. Add 140g blueberries into the cheesecake.
  2. Spread the crumbles on top of the blueberry layers. 
  3. Bake the cheesecake in the oven preheated to 190 °C  for 30 - 35 minutes.
Decoration
  1. Decorate your cheesecake with icing sugar and it is ready to be served!