Strawberry Cheesecake

A classic. A delicious biscuity base with sweet creamy centre and scrumptious strawberry topping- what more can I say except yum!

This recipe fits a 12 inch tin so there will plenty to go round. It’s easiest to manoeuvre in a tin with a removable base, unless your a gambler and like to live on the edge. Either way it’ll taste great!

Thanks to Linda for requesting this recipe after seeing my post on Instagram. If you’d like to follow on instagram for more regular updates it’s @branches_of_birch.

You will need:

12 inch round tin

Blender

Stand or hand Mixer (you can use a ordinary whisk if you want, but why not take the easy road)

Saucepan

Ingredients:

(For the base)

200g Digestive biscuits

50g Oat Biscuits

100g Butter, melted

(For the creamy middle)

400g Cream cheese

200g Mascarpone cheese

100g Icing sugar

1 tsp Vanilla extract

280ml Double Cream

(For the strawberry topping)

1 punnet of strawberries (repeat after me-one for the cheesecake, one for me, one for the cheesecake one for me. Actually best to make it a large punnet if you do this, as you need around 10 strawberries.)

1 tbsp Water

1/2 tsp Caster sugar

Method:

Blend the biscuits to crumbs. (Rinse the blender out as it's needed for later.)

Tip into a mixing bowl and stir in the melted butter.

Tip into the baking tin and press down firmly.

Beat together the cream cheese, mascarpone, icing sugar and vanilla extract.

Once those are combined, beat in the double cream thoroughly.

Cover the biscuit base with the mixture, smoothing out evenly.

Putting 4 or 5 Strawberries to one side-Hide them from the rest of the house!

Chop up another 4 or 5 (depending on size) and place them in the saucepan with the sugar and water until they soften and the liquid is red.

Tip the strawberry mixture in the blender and blend until smooth. Leave the mixture to cool, then pour over the cheesecake.

Refrigerate over night.

In the morning, carefully remove from the tin and plate up.

Slice the remaining strawberries you hid from your children and place them on top of this.

Enjoy!x