Gourmet Soft Cheese Gateau with Cherries
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Difficulty:
moderate
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Preparation:
1 hr 30 min.
Preparation
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Ingredients
for
6
- For the base
- 1 ¼ cups gluten-free cookie crumbs (finely crushed)
- 0.333 cup butter (melted)
- For the filling
- 2 ¼ cups cream cheese
- ½ cup Almond flour
- ½ cup superfine caster sugar
- 1 tsp Almond extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- ⅔ cup Sour cream
- For the topping
- 2 cups Red wine
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 Cinnamon stick (broken)
- 1 Cardamom (crushed)
- 1 pinch ground cloves
- 1 pinch grated Nutmeg
- 2 cups Cherries (pitted)
- To decorate
- powdered sugar
Preparation steps
1.
Preheat the oven to 170°C (150° fan) 325°F gas 3. Butter a 20cm|8" springform cake tin.
2.
Mix together the biscuit crumbs and melted butter and press firmly into the base of the tin.
3.
For the filling: beat together the cream cheese, almonds, sugar, almond extract, eggs and egg yolk until smooth. Add the soured cream and beat again. Pour over the biscuit base.
4.
Bake for 45-50 minutes until the top is golden brown and firm around the outside but with a wobble in the centre. Remove from the oven and leave to cool. Chill for at least 4 hours.
5.
Put the wine, sugar and spices in a pan and simmer for about 10 minutes until a thick syrup forms. Stir in the cherries and leave to become cold.
6.
Spoon the cherries on top of the cheesecake and sift icing sugar over the top.
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