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Lemon and Lime Cheesecake

SERVES 6 - 8

INGREDIENTS:

Crust
1 x 200 g packet tennis biscuits, finely crushed
45 ml sugar
2.5 ml ground cinnamon
100 g unsalted butter, melted
Filling
4 extra large eggs
150 ml sugar
2 x 230 g tubs LANCEWOOD plain low fat cream cheese
Grated zest of one small lemon and one small lime
Topping
1 x 385 g can condensed milk
75 ml mixed lemon and lime juice
The remaining ½ of the lemon and lime zest mixture
METHOD: Combine biscuits, sugar and cinnamon. Shake evenly over the bottom of a loose bottomed cake tin. Drizzle the butter evenly over the crumbs. Beat the eggs until pale. Add the sugar little by little and beat until the mixture is thick and creamy. Add the cream cheese and ½ the lemon and lime zest. Mix well. Pour into the prepared base. Bake in a preheated oven at 180ºC for 40 - 45 minutes. Mix the ingredients for the topping together and pour over the cheesecake. Leave to cool and refrigerate overnight.

  • Use lemons instead of limes.
  • Use the pulp of 2 granadillas in the topping instead of lemon and lime zest.
  • For a special occasion, garnish elaborately with berries and white and dark chocolate curls. Dust with a little icing sugar.

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