Basque burnt cheesecake
Ingredients
- eggs — 3
- cream cheese — 450 g
- icing sugar — 120 g
- starch — 20 g
- double cream 33% — 250 ml
- lime — 1 (or lemon)
- vanilla sugar — 10 g
Optional
- chocolate — 100 g
- butter — 50 g
- nuts
Method
- Heat the oven to 260°C.
- Whisk the cream cheese together with the starch.
- Add the eggs one at a time, whisking until smooth.
- Pour in the cream and add the icing sugar, vanilla sugar and the juice and zest of the lime. Whisk together.
- Line a tin with baking paper and pour in the mixture.
- Bake for 30 minutes, until a dark crust forms.
- Leave to cool at room temperature for an hour, then refrigerate for 2–3 hours.
- For the glaze, melt the chocolate with the butter.
- Cut a slice and pour the chocolate over it.