All of these seasonal flavours combined into a cheesecake creates a lighter alternative to finish a celebration meal.
An ideal (and delicious!) way to use up leftover Christmas pudding.
Ingredients
Digestive Biscuit Crust
- 25g ground almonds
- 175g Doves Farm Organic Wholemeal Digestive Biscuits
- 75g butter
Christmas Pudding Cheesecake
- 175ml double cream
- 175g cream cheese
- 150g Christmas pudding
- 25g light brown sugar
- 2 tbsp dark rum or orange juice
- 1 orange, grated rind
Orange Topping
- 2 tbsp tapioca flour
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 200ml orange juice
- fresh rosemary, to decorate
Method
Digestive Almond Crust
- Spread the ground almonds out on a baking tray and toast or roast them for 5-10 minutes until they are lightly golden, shaking the tray after 3-4 minutes.
- Rub some butter around the inside of an 8”/20cm round dish or loose-bottomed tin.
- Crush the biscuits into fine crumbs, add the toasted almonds and stir to combine. Gently melt the butter.
- Add this to the biscuit crumb and almond mixture and stir to combine.
- Tip the mixture into the prepared dish and smooth the top. Chill the biscuit base.
Christmas Pudding Cheesecake
- Measure the cream and cream cheese and beat them together.
- Put the Christmas pudding, brown sugar, rum or fruit juice into food processor.
- Finely grate the orange rind into the processor bowl. Pulse into a puree.
- Tip the puree into the cream and cheese bowl and gently mix the two together.
- Tip the mixture onto the prepared biscuit base and smooth the top. Chill for at least an hour.
Orange Topping
- Put the tapioca and sugar into a bowl, add a quarter of the orange juice and stir to make a smooth paste.
- Heat the remainder of the juice in a saucepan. Just before it comes to the boil, pour the juice into the bowl and stir to combine.
- Immediately pour everything back into the saucepan. Bring to the boil while stirring until the sauce becomes translucent.
- Remove from the heat and leave to cool for 15 minutes.
- Pour the topping over the cold cheesecake, spreading it out to the edges. Immediately chill the cheesecake.
- Before serving decorate the top with sprigs of fresh rosemary.
Looking for more Christmas recipes? Check out our Easy Traditional Christmas Cake Recipe here!
