Baked Passionfruit Cheesecake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 250 g plain sweet biscuits
• 125 g butter, melted
• 1 kg cream cheese
• 1 1/4 cups caster sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 800 ml passion fruit pulp (the pulp of 4 passionfruits)
• 3 eggs
• 1/4 cup cream

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 160oc.
• 2 place the biscuits in a food processor and process until fine crumbs are formed.
• 3 tip into a bowl and mix with the melted butter.
• 4 press into the bottom and 2cm up the sides of a 22cm lined and buttered spring form pan.
• 5 chill.
• 6 in a medium bowl beat the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla essence and passionfruit until smooth.
• 7 add the eggs one at a time beating lightly after each addition and stir in the cream.
• 8 pour into the prepared pastry shell and bake for 1 hour or until set.
• 9 remove from the oven and place on a rack to cool.
• 10 chill for 4 hours or overnight.