Baked Cheesecake & Star Anise Roasted Plums

Cooking time: 35 minutes

3 cups cream cheese

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

150 ml cream

1 vanilla pod

Zest of 1 lemon

For the Base

1 packet plain Digestive biscuits, crushed

100 gm unsalted butter

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Melt the butter and pour over the biscuit crumbs. Combine and press into a lined a 20 cm springform cake tin and chill.

Place the cream cheese and sugar into a bowl and beat well, continue to beat and add the eggs one at a time. Scrape in the seeds from the vanilla pod and the lemon zest.

Pour the mixture on the biscuit base and level out with a spatula. Place into the oven on a low rack and bake for 35 minutes. Allow cooling at room temperature for at least a couple of hours.

Star Anise Roasted Plums

1 kg sweet plums, halved and pitted

6 star anise pods

Place the plum halves into a roasting tray and add in the star anise pods. Cover with tin foil and roast for 30 minutes.