Monday 27 April 2009




The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey's Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge. You can see more details of Daring Baker challenges here.

Living in the UK, I couldn't get hold of the specified Graham's crackers but this was just fine as I had some homemade ginger biscuits in the freezer. The
re weren't quite enough so I also mixed in some bought shortbread biscuits.. yummm. They went really well with some rhubarb that also needed using up. I stewed the rhubarb with a bit of honey and added onto the pressed crust before covering it all with the super rich batter. This isn't just cheescake...

This was how my crushed ginger and shortbread biscuits looked..









HOW MUCH soft cheese?!













I have to ad
mit that this month's challenge was a joint effort with cycling mum's husband. A spare pair of hands was very welcome to do fiddly things like unwrapping the cheesecake. You've got to be careful with this baby!




This was declared 'the best cheescake my friend had EVER eaten'. That made me happy, I'm easily pleased.