Tag: white chocolate

White chocolate and Strawberry Cheesecake (no bake)

We all love cheesecake!

This was a request from the Facebook page, you can use dark chocolate but i find the flavour of white chocolate works a bit better with the strawberry and slight sourness from the cheese.

Recipe!

Ingredients (serves 8)

For the base

  • 1 pack of biscuits (i like to use hobnobs)
  • 100-200g butter (depending how buttery you like the biscuit base, using more than 150g can make the base go soggy though)

For the filling

  • 200-400g strawberries, sliced (thickish, about 4 slices per strawberry)
  • 200g White chocolate
  • About 400g soft cream cheese
  • 50-100g icing sugar
  • 200ml double cream
  • Fresh mint or basil leaves (optional, to decorate)

Prep and cooking (30 minutes)

  1. First smash the biscuits up, easiest if you’ve got a food processor just blend them with a blade attachment, if not chuck them in a sealy bag and wrap a towel around it and smash it with a rolling pin.
  2. Put the biscuit dust into a mixing bowl and melt the butter in a saucepan over a medium heat.
  3. Mix the butter with the biscuit until it holds together.
  4. Line a cake tin with baking paper and layer the biscuit over the bottom, push down with a wooden spoon or your hands to compact it into the cheesecake base, cover with cling film and put in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
  5. Whilst it’s cooling down make the filling, melt the chocolate over a bain marie on the stovetop (saucepan with small amount of water in and a bowl over the top, using the steam to heat) or in a microwave, if using a microwave be careful not to burn the chocolate.
  6. In a seperate mixing bowl whisk the cream cheese with the sugar, add 1-2 tbsp of boiling water and whisk until its nice and smooth.
  7. Now pour in the melted chocolate with 2-3 tbsp of the cream and mix well.
  8. Put a layer of strawberry slices over the biscuit base and then cover with the cream cheese mixture and spread out evenly.
  9. Whip the rest of the cream and layer this on top of the chocolate/cheese filling.
  10. Arrange the rest of the strawberries on top, decorate with mint or basil leaves if using.
  11. Eat the damn thing.

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White or dark chocolate and vanilla mousse recipe

When someone mentions mousse it always sounds fancy, but they’re not all that tricky to make, and plenty of fun to eat.

This recipe is a request for the Facebook page, feel free to message with any recipe requests.

To the recipe!

Ingredients (makes enough for 4, or maybe 1..)

  • 300ml double cream
  • 30-50g caster sugar
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 200g white or dark chocolate
  • Either vanilla flavouring, essence, extract or a fresh pod

Equipment

  • Saucepan
  • Whisk
  • Mixing bowl
  • Measuring jug
  • Ramekins, or something to put the mousse in

Prep and cooking (10-20 minutes)

  1. Put 60ml of cream in a saucepan with the vanilla and warm on a medium heat until it starts to bubble around the edges, don’t let it boil.
  2. Whisk the egg yolk and sugar in a mixing bowl until smooth and creamy, add a tablespoon of the hot cream to the eggs while mixing, do this a few times and then add it back to the saucepan. This is so the egg yolks don’t scramble.
  3. Turn the heat down low and whisk until it thickens a little, enough to coat the back of a spoon. (Don’t let it boil)
  4. Remove from the heat, smash the chocolate up and stir it into the cream mixture until it’s all dissolved and is nice and smooth, you shouldn’t need to return it to the heat for all the chocolate to melt but it will take a few minutes and you need to keep stirring it.
  5. Put this mix to the side to cool and in another bowl whisk the remaining 240ml of cream until whipped to soft peaks.
  6. When the chocolate mix is cool enough simply fold in the whipped cream, refrigerate and enjoy!

At a mousse end

A lot easier than you may have thought!

This can be combined with other deserts to make some great combinations, or just enjoyed on its own or with some berries do a garnish, or something.

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