BAKED BANANA CHEESECAKE

Preheat your oven to 180 deg C . Place 1 and 1/2 cups of plain flour in a medium bowl, mix with 40gm ( 1/4 cup ) of icing sugar , use your fingertips to rub in 90 gm of butter/ margarine . Then add 2 lightly beaten egg yolks and 1 tbs of cold water to make the dough come together. Knead on a lightly floured board until smooth . Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes . Now that you are ready press the pastry evenly over the sprayed and lightly sprinked with polenta base and sides of a 23 cm flan pan . Lightly prick the base and sides of the pastry and line with baking paper and fill with uncooked rice and blind bake for 15 minutes or until lightly browned . Remove from the oven and the rice and set aside . Reduce the heat of your oven to 160 deg C . Now for the filling place 3 really ripe bananas in the bowl of your electric beater along with 3 lightly beaten eggs , 1 dsp of vanilla extract , 1/2 cup of raw sugar ( 110gm ) and finally 2 x 250 gm of cream cheese . Beat until smooth . Place your prepared pan on an oven tray and pour the filling in. Bake in a moderate oven 160 deg C for 1 and 1/4 hours or until just firm . Cool in the oven with the door ajar . Cover and refrigerate overnight .