Rhubarb and lemon baked cheesecake

Rhubarb and lemon baked cheesecake

This show-stopping rhubarb and lemon cheesecake recipe looks, and tastes, absolutely gorgeous.

Rhubarb and lemon baked cheesecake

  • Serves icon Serves 10-12
  • Time icon Takes 45 min to make, 65 min to cook, plus cooling and chilling

This show-stopping rhubarb and lemon cheesecake recipe looks, and tastes, absolutely gorgeous.

Nutrition: For 12

Calories
550kcals
Fat
43g (25.6g saturated)
Protein
6.6g
Carbohydrates
32.1g (21.6g sugars)
Fibre
0.7g

Ingredients

  • 100g mascarpone
  • 600g full-fat cream cheese
  • 150g golden caster sugar
  • Grated zest of 2 lemons
  • 2 tbsp plain flour
  • 3 medium free-range eggs and 2 yolks, beaten
  • 100g soured cream

For the rhubarb curd

  • 360g trimmed rhubarb, cut into 2cm pieces
  • 50g golden caster sugar, plus 1 tbsp extra to taste
  • 2 tbsp grenadine
  • 2 tbsp cornflour
  • 2 medium free-range egg yolks
  • 50g unsalted butter, melted

For the base

  • 60g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
  • 200g digestive biscuits
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Method

  1. To make the rhubarb curd, mix the rhubarb, the 50g golden caster sugar and grenadine in a pan. Heat gently for about 12 minutes or until the rhubarb starts to break down. Remove and purée in a food processor, then return to the pan. Mix the cornflour with a little of the rhubarb purée from the pan to make a paste, then return to the pan, bring to the boil and bubble for a minute. Taste and, if it’s too tart, add 1 tbsp more sugar. In a bowl, whisk the yolks with the butter and rhubarb mixture. Cover and cool completely.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. To make the base, butter a 22cm x 9cm deep, loose-bottomed sandwich tin and line the base with a circle of baking paper. Drop the digestives into a sealable freezer bag and crush with a rolling pin to fine crumbs. Melt the butter in a saucepan, then add the crushed biscuits. Stir until well coated, then spoon over the base of the prepared sandwich tin, pressing down to ensure a firm, even layer. Chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.
  3. To make the cheesecake mixture, beat the mascarpone and cream cheese for 2 minutes with an electric hand mixer until really smooth. Add the sugar and continue to whisk for a couple of minutes more. Beat in the lemon zest and flour, followed by the beaten eggs, a little at a time, then fold through the soured cream.
  4. Spoon layers of the cheesecake mixture and rhubarb curd into the tin and ripple the top with a wooden skewer. Bake for 50 minutes until golden with a slight wobble. Turn off the oven and leave inside to cool completely (see tip). Carefully remove from the tin to a serving plate.

Nutrition

Calories
550kcals
Fat
43g (25.6g saturated)
Protein
6.6g
Carbohydrates
32.1g (21.6g sugars)
Fibre
0.7g

delicious. tips

  1. Leaving the cheesecake in the turned-off oven will allow it to cool more slowly and should therefore stop the surface from cracking.

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  1. […] dish was adapted from this recipe for a rhubarb and lemon […]

  2. I love this recipe because . . . I’ve adored making swirled cheesecakes since I was a kid, and rhubarb is my new favourite ingredient since I moved to the UK last year!

  3. I love this recipe because we have
    An allotment that provides us with a glut of rhubarb every spring and chickens so this is a showstopper way to use up some excess ingredients. Ran out of digestives last time I made and found ginger nut biscuits are even better in the base.

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