White Chocolate and Strawberry Cheesecake…

Cheesecake goodness! We didn't make the base sides on ours...but it was just as good!

At the beginning of June my flatmate, Pete, made the most amazing cheesecake I’ve ever tasted. (Perhaps with the exception of those really really tangy lemon cheesecakes you occasionally get!) He made two in the same week and at the same time each morning Abi and I would meet in the hall way and realise we were both trying to surreptitiously have cheesecake for breakfast! This lasted almost a week and we didn’t only eat it for breakfast. We also ate it at lunch, after lunch, before dinner, after dinner…you get the picture! So when he moved out last week I begged him to leave to recipe. Of course, being a typical male, he forgot, but luckily he sent the instructions in an email earlier on and I thought I would share it with everyone! So, I have copied and pasted his exact words in from the email. (I therefore take no responsibility should it go wrong!)

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Ingredients

200ml Philadelphia

250ml Mascarpone

200g White Chocolate

250ml Double Cream

Strawberries – cut up into small chunks

Optional Biscuit Base:

Digestive Biscuits (crushed by flatmate with rage issues)

Margarine/Butter melted

Recipe

The secret to this recipe is to not try very hard.

Break up the chocolate and stick it in the microwave until its fully melted. Then add everything else. Then stir.

Also note that quantities of ingredients are totally arbitrary – just use what you have. (When the recipe has this many calories you really can’t go wrong.)

For the biscuit base it’s best to wait for someone to annoy your flatmate then ask them to crush the biscuits for you (remember, don’t try very hard). You can reward your flatmate by giving them biscuits and as an optional extra you can lie about the biscuits suiting their dietary requirements.

Melt some margarine and then mix with the biscuits so that it all sticks together and use as a base.

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It looks very simple and I shall of course be trying it very soon (before and after a complete starvation as it looks entirely calorific!) I can only assume that his references to flatmates with rage issues are directed at myself and Abigail but I can say that we are both calm and serene all the time! I am also shocked and appalled that he lied about the biscuits having special dietary requirements. (He promised me they were wheat free!)

Anyway, enjoy this fabulous recipe! And thank you very much to Pete for allowing me to copy it out here!

JJElaine x