Ingredients
- 1 biscuit (eg. gingernut, digestive, shortbread etc)
- Knob of butter, melted
- ¼ 150ml carton dbl cream
- ¼ 200g tub cream cheese
- 4 strawberries
- Tablespoon icing sugar
Equipment
- Little plastic bag
- Rolling pin
- Ramekin dish or a small pudding dish – this is to set the one portion of cheesecake so if the dish is big, the cheesecake will be very thin!
- Mixing bowl
- Whisk
- Chopping board
Method
Make biscuit into crumbs. Melt butter and mix with biscuit. Push into bottom or ramekin or individual dish for pudding and pop in the fridge. Half whip the cream and add to soft cheese with ½ tbsp icing sugar. Mush 3 strawberries with ½ tbsp icing sugar and mix into half cheesecake mix. Put strawberry layer on biscuit and chill for a few mins. Put plain cheesecake layer on top and arrange a strawberry fan on top for presentation. Voila!
Skills
- creating textures in food for interest
- whipping
- knife skills – fanning strawberry, chopping strawberry
- macerating – putting fruit in sugar to release juice
- setting (both biscuit and butter mix, and cheesecake mix)