Simple Strawberry Cheesecake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- 1 hour for base to set, and overnight for the filling to fully set
- Easy
- Serves 6
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For the base
- 250grams Digestive biscuits
- 100g of melted butter
- Filling
- 600g of soft cheese
- 284ml pot of double cream
- 100g icing sugar
- 1 tin of strawberries in juice
- Extras
- Icing sugar
- 100g strawberries
Method
step 1
Put the digestive biscuits into a sandwich bag and hit with a rolling pin until you get crumbs.step 2
Melt the 100g of butter and add this to the breadcrumbsstep 3
Place the butter and crumb mix into your tin and push down with the back of a spoon to compact the base.step 4
Place this in the fridge for 1 hour to setstep 5
Put the soft cheese and icing sugar into a mixing bowl and mix until smoothstep 6
Add double cream gradually and continue to mixstep 7
Drain the juice from your tinned strawberries and place the strawberries into a bowl. Then using the back of a fork, mash these until they make a pureestep 8
Add the puree to the cheese, sugar and cream and continue to mix until this is fully mixed instep 9
Spoon this mixture onto your base, ensuring to push down in order to eliminate any air bubbles.step 10
Place this in the fridge overnight until set. When ready to serve, chop up some starberries to put on top and add a sprinkle of icing sugar