I Love Baking - New Ideas and Inspiration

I love food, I love cooking, I love baking!!! There is just something about the smell of freshly baking cookies and cake that seems to call to me every time. It is almost an obsessive need to flow with that scent that lingers in the air and just have it all around you all the time. Baking was something I had grown up around and pretty much forgotten about since awhile. I have had my mum experiment with so many different cakes and dishes which made me want to try some for myself.

Monday, March 18, 2013

Upside-Down Lemon Cheesecake

Ingredients

· 500g Quark

· 200g light soft cheese

· 6 tbsp lemon curd , plus a little extra mixed with lemon juice, to serve

· 2 tbsp icing sugar

· 2 lemons , zested and juiced

· 4 gelatine sheets

· 12 amaretti biscuits , crushed

Method

1. Line a 20cm springform tin with clingfilm. Beat the quark and soft cheese with the lemon curd, icing sugar and lemon zest.

2. Soak the gelatine in cold water until it is floppy, lift out and then put in a small pan with the lemon juice and heat gently until the gelatine melts. Stir into the cheese mixture and pour into the tin. Sprinkle the amaretti over the top and press in gently. Chill for 3 to 4 hours or overnight until set and then carefully turn out onto a plate to serve. Spoon over a little extra lemon curd mixed with lemon juice if you like.