Honest opinion please suburban people.

[longdog]

Cheesecake is what god eats with his cuppa.

 

[pogofish]

I'd tuck-in but start looking around for the phantom pie-flinger creeping-up!

 

[girasol]

I'd say you need to focus a bit better before you take photos.

The blurred cheesecakes look good to me!

p.s. if someone made me cheesecake for my birthday I'd be grateful, to say the least!

 

[geminisnake]

Another cheesecake fan here, and if anyone is ungrateful tell them to come here and we'll sort them out

 

[Poi E]

Wow-they look really professional. I'd be most pleased. In fact, I would think that the person fancied me

 

[blues]

Wow-they look really professional. I'd be most pleased. In fact, I would think that the person fancied me

Oh god, now I'm worried!

Nah, he likely sees me as a "Mum" figure already. Probably even more so after tomorrow.

 

[izz]

numnumnumnumnumnnum


burp

 

[Loki]

mmm cheesecake

Cheap cheesecake, expensive cheescake, it's all cheesecake.

I bloody love cheesecake!

^ Ditto! I'd be well chuffed with that rather than the usual cake fare.

 

[Poi E]

Oh god, now I'm worried!

Nah, he likely sees me as a "Mum" figure already. Probably even more so after tomorrow.

You never know what might be going on in his fertile young mind. That was rather a lucious shade of red.

 

[Herbsman.]

I'd say mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm and lick my lips after I'd wolfed down just enough of it to get to the point just before I felt sick from eating too much cheesecakey goodness

 

[ddraig]

looks like the one i got from spar for 99p t'other day, sorry!
v nice thought tho

 

[blues]

Just so's you know: they went down very well, and the guy whose birthday it was has been taking the piss out of me all week, and ended up the same colour as the strawberry one when he realised

Although why the whole damn dept was shocked I can make a cheesecake was a bit disturbing

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Glad they went down well, now post the recipes!

 

[blues]

Thought it would be obvious to most folk on here. Sorry.

Take any plain cheesecake recipe you're happy with (personally I use a mascarpone and digestives combo, but as you like) and use a bit less butter in the base than you normally would and add:

Strawberry:
Chopped strawberries (about 5) and some glaze.....

......Use jelly glaze packet or jelly cubes and dilute in minimal boiling water possible then add syrup from strawberries. puree in 1/3 available strawberries. When cool, use about 1/4 of glaze to colour/bind base, and keep the rest to top off cheesecake.

Mix the cheese filling, and for the strawberry one, put half on, then top with half remaining strawberries. Fold in remaining strawberries bar 3 (chopped), into rest of filling and carefully place on top. Put in fridge for firming before topping with 3 kept back strawberries and remaining glaze. If you pour the glaze slowly over the three strawberries, it doesn't break the surface of the cheese filling.

Lemon & Lime:

Juice of half each lemon & lime added to base.

Add grated zest of half lemon and lime to cheese filling, saving a pinch or three for decorating. Sprinkle remainder on top and twist one half-slice of lime in centre.

Only feedback I got that I'm unclear if positive, is that lemon and lime one was very rich.

It also isn't at all sweet (which is the intention).

Sorry the quantities are vague, but I didn't measure anything. Just add more biscuits if base too wet, more juice/glaze if too dry. Cheese filling isn't affected by additions, and glaze just puree and syrup substituting water.