Sunday, 25 November 2012

Recipe: Easy Peesy Cheesycake (White Chocolate & Honeycomb)

Dessert is always my favourite part of a meal, to eat and make, and one of my favourite puds is cheesecake!

The following cheesecake is super easy to make, and as it only needs a couple of hours to chill before serving, it is the perfect sweet treat when you are hard-pressed for time.

White Chocolate and Honeycomb Cheesecake

Ingredients:

  • 250g soft cheese
  • 250g lighter/reduced fat soft cheese
  • 300ml double cream
  • 300g white chocolate
  • 200g chocolate coated honeycomb
  • 300g digestive biscuits
  • 100g butter/margarine
  • 50g milk chocolate

Method:

1. Place the biscuits in a food bag, and bash them with a rolling pin to form crumbs. To speed things up, you could blitz them in a food processor.

2. Melt 100g butter /margarine, and stir in the biscuit crumbs.

3. Evenly press the biscuit mixture into a 23cm spring form cake tin, and chill in the fridge while making the cheesecake topping.

4. In a bowl, beat the two types of soft cheese together, until the mixture is smooth. Add the double cream and beat through.

5. Melt the white chocolate, and gradually add to the cream cheese mixture, ensuring it is fully combined.

6. Mix in the chocolate coated honeycomb so that the pieces are evenly distributed.

7. Spoon the mixture on top of the biscuit base and smooth out.

8. Melt the milk chocolate and drizzle it over the cheesecake.

9. Cover the cheesecake and chill for a minimum of two hours before serving.
 
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For a bit of extra colour and a sharper flavour, you could switch the chocolate coated honeycomb for raspberries. You could also switch the white chocolate for milk or dark chocolate, and change the biscuit base too, e.g. for ginger nuts, cookies, chocolate digestives, etc.
 
If you are after something more refreshing, you could switch the chocolate for something more ‘citrusy’, and add lemon zest and juice to the cream cheese mixture. I have also tried a dark chocolate and orange combination before, which worked really well.
 
 

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