Baked vanilla cheesecake

Darja baked one of these for me for my last birthday, it's the best birthday cake I've ever had :) The base of mine didn't turn out quite as well as how she made it, so I'll have to keep practicing with that. This is her recipe I'm putting here so the measurements for the ingredients will be much more precise than usual for this blog.

Ingredients:
Curd cheese - 400g
Milk - 125ml
Eggs - 3
Flour - 100g
Butter - 50g
Baking powder - 5g
Vanilla pudding powder - 1 pack
Sugar - 125g
Vanilla sugar - 15g (or 2 spoonfuls of vanilla essence, that's what I used as I couldn't find vanilla sugar here)

Baking:
1) To make the base: in a large bowl, mix in the flour, 1/3 of the sugar, 1 egg, 1 spoonful of vanilla sugar/essence and the baking powder and stir well.
2) Melt the butter until it's a little soft and stir it into the above mixture well. (As always with cheesecake bases, if you melt the butter until it's liquid it can make the base too hard, so just a little melted to make it mix in better is enough)
3) Spread the base mixture along the sides and bottom of the cheesecake dish.
4) To make the filling: in a bowl mix the curd cheese, the remaining 2/3 of the sugar, the remaining spoonful of vanilla sugar/essence, the vanilla pudding powder, the milk and 2 eggs, and stir well. You can seperate the egg whites and just use them if you wish but that's not necessary.
5) Pour the filling on top of the base. Ideally, it should come up very near the top of the base, that'll stop the base going too brown around the top like mine did in the picture.
6) Put it in a preheated oven at 180c for 60 minutes, on one of the lower shelves so it doesn't go brown on top too quickly, and then it's ready. Leave it to cool at least an hour before serving. It's usually put in the fridge and chilled before serving but I think it tastes great still warm from the oven too.