Strawberry Cheesecake

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 Now that the English strawberries are good value, I thought I'd make a cheesecake. I had a pot of mascarpone to use, so used it with some cream cheese [such as Philly]. This is very easy to make when you don't feel like cooking!

You need: 60g icing sugar, 200g digestive biscuits [or other biscuits of your choice], 50g butter [melted], 1 lemon, 250g mascarpone, 100g soft cheese [Philly] and 1tspn vanilla extract, few mint leaves

Blitz the biscuits in a food processor or blender. Add the melted butter and mix together.

Press into the base of a 23cm flan tin, pushing the crumbs slightly up the sides.

Beat the mascarpone with the cream cheese, icing sugar, vanilla extract and lemon zest.

Spoon into the tin on top of the crumb base. Smooth with a spatula.

Cut the washed strawberries into 2 [or 4 if large] and put the on top of the cream mixture, cut side down.

Cut the washed strawberries into 2 and put the on top of the cream mixture, cut side 

Top with a few mint leaves and put into the fridge.


A good dessert for a hot day, but nice for any time in the Summer.



Comments

Phil in the Kitchen said…
A lovely way of using some of the excellent strawberries around at the moment. A great summer dessert. (I don't think it's just my dodgy memory but years ago English strawberries before Wimbledon were pretty dodgy, very expensive and often unripe. That's not true now and so my hat's off to the plant breeders and growers).
20/6/21 3:37 pm
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