Making of: Walnut Pear Cheesecake

Again people visiting, again it's time for another cheesecake. This time it is a cheesecake filled with pear halves, everything on top of a walnut crust.

What you need:

Crust:
200 g walnuts (you can as well use ground walnuts)
melted butter (about 50 g, maybe a bit more, depending on the nuts)

Cake itself:
100 g butter
100 g sugar
2 eggs
750 g curd cheese
2 heaped tbsp. flour (I mean REALLY heaped)
100 ml single cream

Cream:
200 g honey cream cheese
150 g yoghurt


Making the crust:
Grind the nuts, then mix the ground nuts with the melted butter. The mixture should not be too greasy, but just stick together. Now, position a cake setting ring onto a cake tray. Fill the mass into the ring and press it onto the tray evenly, so that this mass will form the cake base. Let it set, while preparing the cheesecake.

Baking the cake:
Melt the butter and add it to the sugar. Mix until roughly combined and cooled down a little. (This is important because otherwise the eggs might set.) Then, add the eggs and stir again. Add curd cheese and flour, stir again, and finally add the single cream and stir for the final touch :)

Preheat the oven to 175°C, grease and flour a 26cm springform baking tin and fill in the cheese mass. Bake for about 45-60 minutes. If the cake becomes too dark too early, cover the cake with some aluminium, so that it retains its colour while baking until done.
Leave the cake in the form until it is cooled down. When it is cool, carefully remove the springform and position the cake on the walnut base.

Final touch:
Now, mix the honey cream cheese and yoghurt until they form an even mass. When the cheesecake is cooled down completely, remove the cake ring and cover the whole cake with the cream.
If you like, you are free to decorate the cake however you like. I used some walnuts and almonds... as you can see :)