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Calamansi Cheesecake

Tiny citrus, huge tang — silky baked cheesecake with a glossy calamansi glaze ✨

Ingredients

  • 200g digestive biscuits, crushed
  • 100g butter, melted
  • 500g cream cheese, room temp
  • 150g sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 200ml sour cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch
  • 80ml calamansi juice
  • 100ml calamansi juice (for the glaze)
  • 2 tbsp sugar (for the glaze)
  • Halved calamansi, to decorate

How to make it

  1. Mix crushed biscuits with melted butter, press into a 20cm springform pan and bake 10 min at 180°C.
  2. Beat cream cheese, sugar, eggs, sour cream, vanilla, cornstarch and calamansi juice until smooth.
  3. Pour over the crust and bake 50 min at 160°C until just set. Cool, then chill 4 hours.
  4. Heat the 100ml calamansi juice with the 2 tbsp sugar until slightly thickened, cool, then pour the glaze over the cheesecake.
  5. Top with halved calamansi, slice and serve.