Cheesecake Bars

Cheesecake Bars

From   Tea Time

Prep: 35 minutes

Cook: 30 minutes

Method: Easy

Course: Dessert

Type: Italian

Baked cheesecake topped with fresh fruits

Ingredients

  • Refined flour 125 gms + to dust
  • Butter 75 gms + to grease
  • Brown sugar 75 gms
  • Walnuts 40 gms
  • Filling
  • Cream cheese 125 gms
  • Hung yogurt 100 gms
  • Castor sugar 50 gms
  • Milk 2 tbsps
  • Egg 1
  • Vanilla essence 1 tsp
  • Lemon juice 1 tbso
  • Orange ½
  • Star fruit 1
  • Strawberry 1

Methods

  • Preheat the oven to 175º C. Grease a loose bottom cake tin with some butter and dust some flour on it.
  • Take brown sugar and butter in a mixing bowl and mix with a spoon. Beat with an electric beater till well blended.
  • Chop walnuts and add to the butter-sugar mixture. Add refined flour and mix well. Put it in the prepared cake tin and spread evenly. Press with the back of a spoon to flatten and level the surface.
  • Keep the tin on a baking tray, keep the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 10-12 minutes.
  • To make the filling, take cream cheese in another mixing bowl, add hung yogurt, castor sugar and egg and beat with an electric beater. Add vanilla essence and lemon juice and continue to beat till the mixture is smooth.
  • Take the baking tin out of the oven and let it cool down for 5-10 minutes.
  • Pour the filling mixture over the base, tap the tin lightly, keep it on the baking tray, keep it back in the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.
  • Get the tin out of the oven, cool slightly, demould and keep the cheesecake on a serving platter.
  • Peel the orange and separate a few segments. Cut the star fruit into ½ cm thick slices. Make a fan of the strawberry. Arrange these fruits over the cheese cake in a decorative way and serve.