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Recipe

Difficulty

Medium

 

Prep time

60 minutes

 

Cook time

60-80 minutes

 

Serves

10-12

 

Ingredients

 

Base:

200g ginger biscuits

¼ C roughly chopped pecans

75g Westgold Unsalted Butter, melted

 

Filling:

750g cream cheese, room temperature

250g sour cream

¾ C caster sugar

4 eggs

2 Tbsp lemon juice

2 Tbsp flour

3 tsp ground ginger 

3 Tbsp golden syrup

 

Bailey’s caramel sauce:

⅔ C cream

¾ C brown sugar

50g Westgold Unsalted Butter

Pinch salt

¼ C baileys

100g toasted pecans, chopped

 

Italian meringue:

90g egg whites

50ml water      

175g caster sugar 

1 tsp lemon juice

Method

 

Base:

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line the bottom and sides of a 20cm loose-bottom tin with baking paper. Blend the biscuits into fine crumbs. Add pecans and melted butter, and pulse to combine.

 

Spread the mixture into the tin base, smooth it out, and bake for 10 minutes.

 

Filling:

Reduce the oven temperature to 140°C. In a food processor, blend all filling ingredients until smooth.

 

Pour onto the cooked base and bake for 50-70 minutes until set. Set aside to cool. Refrigerate for 5 hours.

 

Bailey’s caramel sauce:

Simmer the first 4 ingredients together for 5 minutes until thickened.

 

Take off the heat and stir in the Baileys. Leave the sauce at room temperature until ready to use.

 

Italian meringue:

Put sugar, lemon juice and water into a saucepan over a medium heat. Place a thermometer into the pan and bring the temperature up to 120°C.

 

At the same time beat the egg whites in an electric mixer, and increase the speed so the whites form soft peaks at the same time as the sugar mixture comes up to the correct temperature. 

 

To finish the cheesecake: Remove the cheesecake from the fridge and peel away the paper.  Place on a serving plate.  Pour over the Bailey’s caramel sauce and sprinkle over chopped pecans. 

 

Spoon on the Italian meringue and use a blow torch to brown the meringue. 

 

Serve.   

 

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