A cheesecake with a thin biscuit & syrup base, with a creamy lemon cream cheese filling topped with a slice of lemon and lemon sauce. Served with piped cream around the edge.

... GCSE FOOD TECHNOLOGY Lemon Cheesecakes Manufacturing Specification Title: Lemon Cheesecakes (Individual Desserts) Description: A cheesecake with a thin biscuit & syrup base, with a creamy lemon cream cheese filling topped with a slice of lemon and lemon sauce. Served with piped cream around the edge. Main function of ingredients: Cream Cheese: This gives the cake a distinctive taste and adds flavour to just the ordinary whipped cream. Cream: This balances out the strong taste of the cream cheese. It also makes the cheesecake smoother and creamier. Butter: This gives the biscuit base a more distinctive taste and helps to bind the crumbs together and prevents the base from falling apart. Sugar: This gives the cream cheese filling a sweeter taste and takes the bitter/savoury taste out of the cream cheese. It also sweetens the whipped cream. Syrup: This helps the biscuit base crumbs to bind together as the mixture is not baked in the oven. Lemon: This gives the cream mixture flavour to the dessert and gives a balance

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