Cream Cheese Desserts

Amaretto Peach Cheesecake Recipe

Peaches are favourite fruits used in baking recipes for cream cheese desserts due to the sweet honeyed flavour and are usually turned into puree before baking.


Ingredients For Crust

1 1/2 cups 	                	Chocolate Marie Biscuit Crumbs
4 tbsp 		         	Melted Butter

Ingredients For Peach Filling

700 g	      	                 	Cream Cheese; softened at room temperature
3 tbsp 		        	All-purpose Flour
1/2 cup 		          	Fine Sugar
3 		                	Medium Eggs
400 g	 	                	Peach Halves; canned ones, drained and pureed
1/4 cup 		        	Amaretto Liqueur

Method

Mix together biscuit crumbs and melted butter. Press crumbs mixture onto base of 9-inch springform pan and bake at 180°C for 8 to 10 minutes.

Beat cream cheese until smooth. Add in fine sugar and flour. Continue to beat until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well with each addition. Add in peach puree and Amaretto liqueur. Blend well.

Pour peach mixture onto prepared crust. Bake at 200°C for 10 minutes. Then lower heat to 120°C and bake for another 50 minutes.

Allow cheesecake to cool before removing from pan. Chill well until set. Decorate with peach slices if desired.

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