Now, where do I start with this steamed cheesecake
This is what I did for 1/2 the recipe:-
Into the TM bowl I put a 250g packet Philly cream cheese (mind you, it weighed 230g so maybe the scales aren't that accurate after all), 75g castor sugar, 3 x 50g eggs (even these varied - 50, 55 & 60g), 1/2 tspn vanilla concentrated extract, 100mls thickened cream (I used light cream because that is what I had so don't know whether this affects the finished product or not). Blitzed it for 12 seconds on speed 6.
Prepared 4 x 200ml ramekins by spraying and placing a circle of baking paper in the bottom. Poured the mixture evenly into the ramekins. I warmed 50 mls of the conserve and drizzled 1-1/2 teaspoons in dots onto the surface of each ramekin. There is no need to run a skewer through to marble the mixture the dots do just fine.
Covered 2 completely in plastic wrap (like a parcel) and the other 2 in alfoil the same way, just to see the difference for those of you who don't like using plastic wrap. Had 4 layers on the top that way.
Placed 1 litre boiling water in the bowl with the varoma dish on top with the 4 little cheesecakes fitting snuggly in there. Set temperature to varoma, 60 minutes on speed 3. I checked them at 40 and 50 minutes but decided to leave them there for the whole hour. I had 1-1/2 mc's full of boiling water left at the end of the hour but there was still enough in there at the 40 and 50 minute mark. Don't know if I should have let it get that low so maybe top up with more boiling water at the 40 minute mark.
The cheesecake swells a lot and those with the plastic wrap on top fared a little better than the alfoil ones as the plastic wrap gives and the alfoil doesn't (unless you pleat it at the beginning.) I unwrapped them and placed them straight into the fridge for 1/2 hour (maybe I should have let them cool a little first on the sink). The middle sunk when cold but that wasn't a problem - I just poured the combined lemonjuice and remaining conserve in there. They were really nice and next time I will do the big one in a casserole dish. I'm sure it will need a lot more than an hour though and I will definitely need some more people here to help me eat it
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