Nigella Lawson's London CheesecakeTO CUP MEASURES

Ingredients
for the base
150 grams digestive biscuits
75 grams unsalted butter, melted
750 grams cream cheese
150 grams caster sugar
3 large eggs
3 large egg yolks
1 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoons lemon juice

(for the topping)
145 ml sour cream
1 tablespoon caster
sugar
teaspoon vanilla extract

Method
1. Process the biscuits until they are like crumbs, then add the butter and pulse
again. Line the bottom of a 20cm / 8 inch springform tin, pressing the biscuits
in with your hands or the back of a spoon. Put the tin in the fridge to set, and
preheat the oven to 180C/gas.
2. Beat the cream cheese gently until it's smooth, then add the sugar in gradually.
Beat in the eggs and egg yolks one by one, making sure that you incorporate
each into the batter after each addition. Finally, add the vanilla and lemon juice.
Put the kettle on.
3. Line the outside of the chilled tin with strong foil so that it covers the bottom
and sides in one large piece, and then do the same again and put it into a
roasting dish. This will protect the cheesecake from the water as it is cooked in
its water bath.
4. Pour the cream-cheese filling into the chilled biscuit base, and then pour hot
water from the recently boiled kettle into the roasting tin around the
cheesecake. It should come about halfway up; don't overfill as it will be
difficult to lift up the tin. Put it into the oven and cook for 50 minutes. It should
feel set, but not rigidly so: you just need to feel confident that when you pour
the sour cream over, it will sit on the surface and not sink in. (If making the
topping...whisk together the sour cream, sugar and vanilla for the topping and
pour over the cheesecake. Put it back in the oven for a further 10 minutes.)
5. Take the roasting tin out of the oven, then gingerly remove the Springform,
unwrap it and stand it on a rack to cool. When it's cooled down completely, put
it in the fridge, removing it 20 minutes before eating to take the chill off.
Unmould and when you cut into it, plunge a knife in hot water first.