Your Choice Cheese Cake - Unbaked
From jamesj 14 years agoIngredients
- 125 – 150 (you may like a thicker base) grams of Mcvities digestive biscuits (even chocolate ones) or whatever you find similar in your local area to make a cheesecake base. Possibly use wheat meal, oat meal with sugar/chocolate cookie. Some people use short bread. Some people use maltesers. Anything crumbly will do. Digestives are best for a cheese cake, trust me, so try to source and you will impress. An Irish store should have them if you are not in Ireland or the U.K. shopping list
- 75 grams of soft healthy butter (unsalted) shopping list
- 300 - 400 grams of soft cream cheese (low or medium fat - optional) shopping list
- half of a lemon zest (optional) shopping list
- ½ of freshly squeezed lemon (optional) shopping list
- 60 grams of icing sugar shopping list
- 1 vanilla pod (or one teaspoon of vanilla extract). The pod also looks better in the finished product. shopping list
- 280 ml of double cream (reduced fat - optional). shopping list
- 20-23 cm spring form baking tin. shopping list
- Your choices and approach… shopping list
- As a topping – blueberries or cherries. top when pre serving the cake or at least allow it to set for a few hours or overnight. A conserve will do the trick or simply defrost your frozen fruit. shopping list
- Through the cheese cake – Cadbury’s chocolate giant buttons or your favourite chocolate pieces (easy to eat and cut pieces). shopping list
- Baileys or irish cream liquor cheese cake is deadly can add up to 150ml. shopping list
How to make it
- Mash up the biscuits or cookie (finely) of your choice with food processor or put them into a large deep cup/container and go for it with a wooden spoon, both ends are good to use.
- Heat the butter just until it has really softened to pre liquid and mix with the biscuits until you have what’ll look and seem like a clump.
- Place this and flatten carefully in to the spring tin and curl up at the outer edges to give that better looking side look and ridge when it is revealed. Put this in the fridge until needed and allow to set.
- Put together the cream cheese, vanilla, lemon and icing sugar and beat until smooth (if chosen here you would add the Irish cream liquor)
- In a separate dish/bowl and lightly whip the double cream until you have soft peaks. Don’t overdo it.
- Spoon and fold the cream to the mixture (here you could also add the giant buttons or chocolate). Just lightly fold/stir to combine everything.
- Place the whole mixture in to the tin on top of the biscuit and very carefully even out.
- It must sit for a few hours but I recommend overnight. It will set better and it only tastes nice when it is cold.
- You can then add the topping now such as blueberry, cheery etc when you have released it from the tin.
- If you want which I prefer is sweat your berries in a hot pan. Or you can blitz them or chop them. Basically you need them a bit saucy.
- I am going to make a chilli-chocolate one soon.
- If you nail this you will make loads of new friends.
- I must post pics.
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