22 Sep Rooibos Tea Cheesecake

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Rooibos Tea Cheesecake
Rooibos Tea Cheesecake
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There is nothing better than an old fashioned, baked cheesecake. This recipe requires few ingredients and is easy to make. Always a crowd pleaser.
Rooibos Tea Cheesecake
Rooibos Tea Cheesecake
Print Recipe
There is nothing better than an old fashioned, baked cheesecake. This recipe requires few ingredients and is easy to make. Always a crowd pleaser.
Ingredients
Base
  • 1 pack tennis biscuits finely crushed
  • 200 g Butter melted
Filling
  • 150 ml milk
  • 5 bags rooibos tea
  • 5 tubs cream cheese
  • 5 large eggs
  • 250 g castor sugar
  • 2 pods vanilla deseeded
Instructions
Base
  1. Mix the ingredients together and pack tightly in a large or two smaller spring form pans coming half way up the edges of the pan.
  2. Place in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Filling
  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Infuse the tea bags with milk in a pan on the stove for 5 minutes at a moderate temperature, take the pan off, let the milk cool and remove the tea bags.
  2. Whip the eggs and sugar together for 3 minutes on high speed, add the rooibos tea and milk mixture and the vanilla. Mix well.
  3. Now start adding the cream cheese tubs, one by one, on a medium speed and mix until you have a smooth, heavy mixture.
  4. Spoon the mixture into the baking tin and bake the cheesecake for 45-50 minutes until a uniform wobble has been created.
  5. Turn the oven off and leave the cheesecake to cool inside.