Quick and easy lemon curd cheesecake

When it comes to my home cooking I have two simple rules, it has to be full of flavour and it has to be quick to make.

I have a young family at home and spend enough time away from them at work so it is important to me that I am not stuck in the kitchen all day on my day off.

This recipe literally takes minutes to make and is full of a zesty lemon flavour. To make mine I used a good set of metal rings that I bought a long time ago, these can be expensive to buy. A cheaper alternative that I use in my kitchens at work is to go to your local DIY shop and get a length of plastic pipe and cut it into the size that you want. Most good DIY stores will even do it for you in the shop, then, after a good wash , just line them with a bit of baking paper and you are ready to go.

350g soft cream cheese

50g icing sugar

100g lemon curd

zest of 1 lemon

200g digestive biscuits

75g melted butter

1 gelatin leaf

Take the digestive biscuits and place them in a food processor and blend them into a smooth powder, add in the melted butter and combine. Spoon a little of this mixture in the bottom of each of your tubes and press it down.

The gelatin leaf will need to be soaked in about 100 ml of water for 10 minutes to allow it to become soft.

Put the cream cheese, sugar, lemon curd and lemon zest in a mixer and beat it together with a wooden spoon. Take the gelatin out of the water and place it in a bowl and microwave it for 10 seconds to melt the gelatin. Beat the gelatin into the cream cheese mixture and you are read to go.

Spoon the cream cheese mixture into the tubes on top of the biscuit base. Place the cheesecake in the fridge for an hour to allow them to set.

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