Best New York cheesecake

Ingredients

2 cups	Wine biscuits, crushed
145 g	Butter, melted
1 tsp	Lemon zest
500 g	Cream cheese, traditional (Main)
1 cup	Sour cream
1 cup	Cream
1 cup	Caster sugar
4 large	Eggs, beaten
1	Lemon, zest & juice

Topping

½ cup	Sour cream
1 cup	Strawberries, chopped, or other smaller berry fruit left whole
2 Tbsp	Passionfruit syrup

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 165C.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine the crushed biscuits with the melted butter and zest.
3. Line the bottom of a 23cm spring-form pan tin with the biscuit base, pressing down firmly using a glass. You could line the base of your tin with baking paper and also line the sides. Annabelle didn't, but it can make removing the cheesecake easier.
4. Mix all the ingredients in a food processor until just smooth. Pour the mix into a spring-form pan and bake for 60-70 minutes. The cheesecake needs to be set but still have a slight "wobble" in the centre.
5. Turn off the oven and leave the cake to cool down in the oven for about one hour to prevent the top from cracking. Chill the cake in the fridge overnight and dust the top with icing sugar.

For the topping

1. Smear the top of the cheesecake with the sour cream. Toss the berries in the passionfruit pulp and then pour all over the sour cream topping. If you have fresh passionfruit, scoop out the seeds and pulp from 6 and discard any white pith.
2. Make a sugar syrup by boiling 1 cup of water with 1 cup of caster sugar with the zest of half a lemon until well-combined. Strain and cool.
3. Add the pulp and store in the fridge for future use.