Pumpkin cheesecake

Now thinking about this I should have posted this a couple of weeks ago for Halloween but I did not , but it is a good desert to make if you have some pumpkins that have left over . Or if you are planning to have a thanksgiving dinner this is a really good desert.

You will need

225g/8oz digestive biscuits

60g/2oz butter

The juice and zest 1 lemon

340g/12oz slow roasted pumpkin

225g/8oz caster sugar

450g/1lb cream cheese

3 good pinches of ground cinnamon

2 good pinch of ground nutmeg

4 eggs

90ml/3floz double cream

90ml/3floz natural yoghurt

Like all cheese caked that are worth there salt you start with the biscuit base. Take the digestive biscuits put them in a bag and bash them into crumbs. Melt the butter and mix in the biscuit crumbs with lemon zest. Then grease a loose-bottomed cake tin and press the crumbs into the base and up the sides. Now put that in the fridge and let that chill and set.

Now for your pumpkin I said roasted pumpkin but as long as it is cooked it does not really matter. I like to roast it as this gives it a more sweet flavour that rally gives the cheese cake. Once it is cooked puree it and set it in a bowl.

To the pumpkin add the cream cheese, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg and work them all together until you have a smooth paste. Now beat the eggs and then fold them  into the pumpkin mix. Then take out your set biscuit base and pure this into it. You need to have your oven set at 170c/325f and bake the cake for about 70 to 90 minutes. It all depends on how much water is in the pumpkin, if you roast it 70 minutes , if you seam it 90 minutes you get the idea. When the surface is set but the underneath still slightly soft and sticky it is done.

Once it is cooked take it out of the oven and let it cool in the tin. When it cool enough to turn out take it out of the tin and slid it on to a plate, cover it and place it in the fridge to chill.

When you are ready to serve whip the double cream until it is very thick, then fold it in to the yoghurt and lemon juice and use that to top the cake and it is good to go.