Steps to Make Favorite Christmas Cake Cheesecake

Christmas Cake Cheesecake.

You can cook Christmas Cake Cheesecake using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Christmas Cake Cheesecake

1. You need 300 g of leftover Christmas cake.
2. Prepare 250 g of digestive biscuits.
3. It's 100 g of butter.
4. It's 400 g of cream cheese.
5. Prepare 250 g of mascarpone cheese.
6. It's 100 g of caster sugar.
7. Prepare 75 g of golden caster sugar.
8. It's 100 ml of double cream.
9. You need 1 teaspoon of mixed spice.
10. Prepare 3 of large eggs.
11. You need 3 tablespoon of Baileys.
12. Prepare of Zest of 1 orange.

Christmas Cake Cheesecake step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 140 C fan.
2. Crush the biscuits in a bag with a rolling pin, add ½ tsp of mixed spice..
3. Melt the butter then add the biscuits, mix well, then use to line the bottom of a 23cm springform tin, press down with your hand. Crumble over a layer of Christmas cake (about half) and press down lightly. Chill..
4. Whip the double cream, then add the cream cheese, mascarpone, sugar, and eggs, beat well with an electric mixer, until well combined. Stir through ½ tsp mixed spice, Baileys and zest..
5. Crumble in the rest of the Christmas cake and mix through the cream mix, then pour on top of the biscuit base..
6. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes, then turn off the heat and leave in the oven until cool, it should still have a wobble..
7. Once cool refrigerate overnight or at least 3 hours, then remove from the tin. (I heat a sharp knife in boiling water and cut around the edge of the tin before releasing, to give a neater edge..