pumpkin cheesecake

pumpkin & cinnamon cheesecake

base:

1 1/4 cups milk arrowroot biscuits

1/4 cup caster sugar

100g butter 

filling:

 500g cream cheese 

1/4 cup caster sugar 

4 eggs 

1 cup cooked mashed pumpkin (butternut) or whatever kind you fancy!

1/4 cup plain flour 

2 tsp ground cinnamon 

2 tsp vanilla extract 

and to make it...!

 preheat oven (180 degrees) blend base ingredients and press into springform tin. bake base for 10 mins on moderate oven and then turn oven down to 160 

beat cream cheese and sugar, then add eggs and beat until smooth. fold through remaining ingredients, pour over base.  bake 40-45 mins until just firm.

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it was gorgeous holly's (from work) birthday today and i made pumpkin cheesecake! i asked her what kind of cake she wanted and she said pumpkin, so i simply smiled and got to work. i am sure she had no idea that i would actually do it, but i did! pumpkin cake, of the cheese variety. so yum!!

i must admit, the recipe isn't mine, my friends cousin actually passed it on to me at a family bbq cause i liked it so much - and i'm going to do the same cause i'm nice like that!

enjoy!