December 9th, 2008 by Lola

A bit of a twist to the famous Cheesecake.

Just because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.

Ingredients:

• 300g mascarpone cheese or cream cheese
• 300g strawberries, roughly chopped
• 150g digestive biscuits
• 200g melted white chocolate
• 40g softened butter
• 2 tbsp icing sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• You’ll also need a spring form tin preferably 20cm.

If you aren’t too keen on digestive biscuits swap them for shortbread biscuits.

Method

1.       Place the biscuits in a plastic bag. Release your anger- (LOL!) by bashing them with a rolling pin till they make fine crumbs.

2.       Melt the butter.

3.       Mix the biscuit crumbs together with the butter and press firmly onto the base of the tin – chill in the fridge until needed.

4.       Melt the white chocolate in a bowl in the microwave.

5.       In a separate bowl beat together the cream cheese until smooth and thick.

6.       Gently fold in the chopped strawberries, white chocolate, icing sugar and vanilla extract.

7.       Spoon on top of the biscuit base, levelling off the surface.

8.       Chill in the fridge for about 4 hours.

Now let’s see if you can wait the long four hours. I suggest playing bingo in the mean time. Fun!