GOAT CHEESE AND RHUBARB CHEESECAKE

Posted By: Emily
APRIL 07, 2019

Serves: 6-12
Total Time: Overnight * Active Time: 40 Minutes
Courtesy of: Tom

Ingredients

BASE

  • 250g Digestive Biscuits
  • 50g Ryvita
  • 80g Unsalted Butter
    • Room Temperature

BATTER

  • 300g Soft Goat’s Cheese
  • 600g Full-Fat Cream Cheese
  • 100ml Buttermilk
  • 1 Tablespoon Cornflour
  • 150g Caster Sugar
  • 3 Large Eggs

TOPPING

  • 200g Rhubarb
    • Roughly Chopped
  • 175g Caster Sugar
  • 4 Thyme Sprigs

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Grease a springform tin.

BASE

  1. Put the biscuits and ryvita into a food processor and pulse to a fine crumb.

  2. Add the butter and blend until you have a damp sandy consistency.

  3. Tip the mixture into the tin, compress and bake for 15 minutes.

  4. Remove the tin from the oven and allow to cool.

BATTER

  1. Whisk the goat cheese, cream cheese, buttermilk and cornflour until well combined.

  2. Add sugar and whisk until combined.

  3. Add in eggs until you’ve reached a smooth and fairly runny batter.

  4. Pour the batter on top of the base and put into the oven.

  5. Immediately reduce the temperature to 260 degrees and bake for 1 hour – 1 hour 10 minutes, until the cheesecake is set but has quite an impressive wobble.

  6. Turn off the oven, but leave the cheesecake in the oven – with the door closed and allow to cool to room temperature (about 1 hour)

  7. Put cheesecake in the refrigerator and allow to set overnight.

TOPPING

  1. Put rhubarb and sugar into a saucepan over medium-high heat with a splash of water and the thyme.

  2. Bring to a boil and cook until the rhubarb has become a very loose jam.

  3. Pluck out the thyme stalks.

  4. Put into a food processor and pulse until smooth. Then put through a fine mesh strainer.

  5. Allow topping to cool to room temperature.

ASSEMBLE

  1. Pour topping over the entire cheesecake or serve individual slices with a little blob of topping.

Notes:
This was a unique flavor that wasn’t too sickly sweet.

I do think it could have used a little more acid. Lemon or something…

If you can’t find digestive biscuits, use graham crackers!