Banana Cheesecake

I made a baked banana cheesecake a couple of days ago and it was super easy and tasted divine! Master C asked me to make a banana cake but I'd been meaning to make a cheesecake for a while, so banana cheesecake is what we ended up with.

Miss E and Miss C helped me by eating - I mean adding! - in the ingredients along the way and doing the girly baking thing with them was quite enjoyable.

The cake turned out perfect for a first attempt and it was a big winner with all of the kids so it will definitely be made again!

Ok so the recipe.....

Baked Banana Cheesecake

Ingredients

1 x packet of biscuits of choice for the base, eg, nice, marie etc...

100 - 150g butter, melted

3 x 250g blocks cream cheese

4 bananas

150ml cream

120g caster sugar

3 eggs

30g cornflour

1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method

Crush the biscuits in a food processer, add the butter and mix together. Place in a greased and lined 22cm round springform tin, spread evenly and press down to form the base. Place in fridge for 10 minutes.

Add the remaining ingredients to food processor and process until smooth.

Bake in oven at 170 c for 30 - 40 minutes.

And it's that simple! This makes a good amount of mixture so I made a miniature cheesecake with some of the mixture in a mini springform tin.

I LOVE this cheesecake, it was so creamy. I had to use guesswork with some of the ingredients as I don't have any kitchen scales so I'm glad it turned out.

Right now I have a pavlova baking in the oven so am looking forward to eating that too! Until next time............

UPDATE: The pav was great! Kiddies helped decorate it with whipped cream, bananas, blueberries and passionfruit pulp. Was so good even Dwayne cleaned his bowl and that's saying something! I used pavlova magic but next time I'll be trying it from scratch! Mmmmm