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Nutty upside down cheesecake

Meat-free.

200g (7 oz, 1½ US cups) shelled hazelnuts
3 or 4 digestive biscuits
1kg (2 lb) cream cheese 
125ml (4 fl oz, ½ US cup) double cream or sour cream 
4 eggs 
350g (12 oz, 1¾ US cups) castor sugar 
1 tsp vanilla essence

Preheat oven to 200ºC (400ºF, gas mark 6). Put the nuts in a shallow baking tin (preferably in a single layer) and bake for about 15 minutes, shaking occasionally to ensure even browning. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.

Lower oven temperature to 150ºC (300ºF, gas mark 2).

Crush or blend the digestive biscuits into fine crumbs. Butter the inside of a 20cm (8″) flan tin. Do not use a loose-bottomed tin. Sprinkle the inside with the crumbs and shake around until the bottom and sides are coated. Shake out remaining crumbs and discard.

Place the nuts in a food processor or blender. For a crunchy texture blend coarsely. For a smoother texture blend a little longer until paste-like. If you don't have a food processor, you can wrap them in a clean teatowel and crush them with a rolling pin.

Mix the cream cheese, cream, eggs, sugar, and vanilla together until well blended. Beat by hand or with a mixer until smooth, then fold in the nuts.

Pour into flan tin and shake to get it level.

Put the kettle on. When it has boiled, put the flan tin inside a larger tin, making sure the smaller tin has clear space all round it. Put both tins into the oven. Pour boiling water into the larger pan to a depth of about 1-1.5cm (½″).

Bake for 2 hours.

Turn off the oven but leave the cheesecake in the oven for another hour.

Remove cheesecake from oven and leave on a rack to cool for at least 2 hours at room temperature. Refrigerate.

When the cheesecake is completely chilled, put a plate over the top of the tin and turn plate and tin over together, so that the cheesecake lands on the plate. You may have to shake them a bit to encourage the cheesecake to fall out of the tin. Be careful to keep the plate in place while you do this.

Serve chilled.

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