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Vanilla Bean Cheesecake 🤍
The classic, done properly — real vanilla bean, silky crumb, zero shortcuts ✨
Ingredients
- 200g digestive biscuits, crushed
- 100g butter, melted
- 500g cream cheese, room temp
- 150g sugar
- 3 eggs
- 200ml sour cream
- Seeds of 2 vanilla beans (or 2 tsp vanilla bean paste)
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 150ml heavy cream, whipped (for rosettes)
How to make it
- Mix crushed biscuits with melted butter, press into a 20cm springform pan and bake 10 min at 180°C.
- Beat cream cheese, sugar, eggs, sour cream, vanilla bean seeds and cornstarch until smooth.
- Pour over the crust and bake 50 min at 160°C until just set. Cool, then chill 4 hours.
- Pipe whipped cream rosettes around the edge, slice and serve.