Yep - a sort of bastardised version of my grandma's cheesecake. Recipe here if you want to try it!
Blackberry and Ginger Cheesecake
Ingredients
500g of cream cheese
3 eggs (separated)
4” of Fresh root ginger (grated)
4 tbsp Vanilla Sugar
Handful of blackberries
Few Drops vanilla essence
75g desiccated Coconut
6 digestive biscuits (crushed)
Zest and Juice of 1 lemon
50g butter
Method
1) Make biscuit base by combining digestive biscuits, with butter and half the ginger and lemon in a frying pan.
2) Press down on well greased springform tin base.
3) Combine all other ingredients (apart from egg white) in bowl and mix well
4) Whip egg whites to stiff peaks and fold into mixture
5) Add to cake tin
6) Cook in oven 120 degrees C (if fan assisted) – 140 degrees C (if not) for about 90 mins
