Recipe Category: Dessert
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Ingredients
Servings 14 slices
Biscuit Base
- 250 g digestive biscuits or Graham crackers
- 130 g butter melted
- 30 g light brown sugar or light muscovado sugar (if using light muscovado, sift to remove lumps)
Cheesecake Filling
- 290 ml double cream cold
- 630 g cream cheese room temperature
- 160 g icing sugar sifted
- 150 g white chocolate melted
- 250 g fresh strawberries finely chopped and mixed with 100g icing sugar (see recipe instructions below)
- whipped cream topping (optional)
- 200 ml double cream cold
Strawberries to place on top about 12-16 strawberries
Method
- First, measure out your cream cheese into a medium bowl and set side to come to room temperature
- Break up the white chocolate into individual pieces and melt in the microwave in 20 second increments until smooth
- Set aside to cool
- Finely chop the fresh strawberries
- Place in a medium bowl and add 100g icing sugar, stirring the mixture until the strawberries are well coated in the sugar
- Set aside to macerate for 25-30 minutes
- It will look quite watery but don’t worry, you will sieve this mixture once macerated
- Pulse the digestive biscuits/Graham crackers in a food processor
- Melt the butter in the microwave in 20 second increments
- Whisk the biscuit crumbs and light brown sugar togther in a medium bowl
- Add the butter to this mixture and stir with a spatula until well combined
- Pour this mixture into your 20cm/8 springform tin and press down really firmly to pack the crumbs as tightly as possible
- Place your springform tin in your fridge to chill while you make the cheesecake filling
- Pour the cold double cream into the bowl of your stand mixer or medium/large bowl if using a hand whisk
- Whisk the cream on high (8-10 in a KitchenAid mixer) until the cream is whipped up really thick
- Transfer the whipped cream to a smaller bowl and set aside
- You can now use this same large bowl for the next step; don’t worry about cleaning it
- Sieve the chopped strawberries to drain the excess strawberry juice
- Try to get as much liquid out as this stage by pressing gently on the strawberries in the sieve with the back of a spoon
- To this large bowl add the room temperature cream cheese, sifted icing sugar, melted white chocolate and chopped, sieved strawberries
- Swap your whisk attachment for your beater attachment and beat on medium (5-6 KitchenAid) for around 30 seconds until smooth and combined
- Now using a spatula or wooden spoon, gently fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture, as gently as possible
- Continue until thick and fully incorporated
- Spread this cheesecake mixture into your springform pan that’s been chilling in the fridge
- Place the pan back in the fridge to chill for at least 12 hours, ideally 24 hours
- Decorate the finished cheesecake
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