How to make cheesecake

Fruit and vegetables

200g/7oz strawberries

Cooking ingredients

1 vanilla pod (or 1 tsp vanilla paste)
200g/7oz golden caster sugar
25g/1oz icing sugar

Biscuits, snacks and sweets

250g/9oz digestive biscuits

Dairy, eggs and chilled

125g/4½oz unsalted butter
3 eggs and 2 egg yolks, at room temperature
900g/2lb cream cheese, at room temperature
300ml/½ pint full-fat crème fraîche

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