Old Fashioned Cheesecakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sheets pre-rolled flaky pie pastry
jam
125 g butter
1 teaspoon grated fresh lemon rind
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons milk
icing sugar

Preparation

place pastry on a flat surface.
using a 7cm biscuit cutter, cut out rounds.
place pastry rounds into patty tins.
spoon about 1/2 tsp of jam on to the pastry rounds.
cream butter, lemon rind and sugar until pale.
beat eggs in one at a time, beating well after each addition.
sift flour and baking powder into creamed mixture.
stir to combine.
add milk to give a soft dropping consistency.
spoon batter evenly among the patty tins.
bake at 190C degrees for about 20 minutes or until golden and cakes spring back when lightly touched.
transfer to a cooling rack and allow to go cold.
serve dusted with sifted icing sugar.
if wished, before baking, place thin strips of left over pastry on top of batter.