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Elderflower Cheesecake 🌼

Delicate, floral and silky — baked cheesecake with a glossy elderflower glaze and pretty edible flowers ✨

Ingredients

  • 200g digestive biscuits, crushed
  • 100g butter, melted
  • 500g cream cheese, room temp
  • 150g sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 200ml sour cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch
  • 3 tbsp elderflower cordial (for the filling)
  • 50g icing sugar (for the glaze)
  • 2 tbsp elderflower cordial (for the glaze)
  • Edible flowers, to decorate

How to make it

  1. Mix crushed biscuits with melted butter, press into a 20cm springform pan and bake 10 min at 180°C.
  2. Beat cream cheese, sugar, eggs, sour cream, vanilla, cornstarch and the 3 tbsp elderflower cordial until smooth.
  3. Pour over the crust and bake 50 min at 160°C until just set. Cool, then chill 4 hours.
  4. Whisk the icing sugar with the 2 tbsp elderflower cordial into a glaze and pour over the chilled cheesecake.
  5. Decorate with edible flowers, slice and serve.
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