Cheesecake disaster?

[soupforbrains]

Help! I’ve made a cheesecake today as I need to take it to a garden party tomorrow.

I don’t follow a recipe but I’ve made the same one a hundred times. I use half and half Philadelphia and marscapone, zest of 2lemons and 2 limes, juice of 1 lemon and 2 limes. And then I add icing sugar until the taste is just the right balance of sweet and sharp.

BUT today the mix seems runnier than usual. I added a little more icing sugar to see if it would thicken up. (It didn’t)

I thought it might just be because the weather is so hot so I poured some into small ramekins and put it in the fridge. It’s been there for a few hours now and hasnt set. (Though it’s thicker than it was.)

im thinking that the lemons and limes I used must have been larger/juicier than normal so I’ve added too much juice.

how can I salvage this, I don’t want to start over as it’s such a waste. If I whip up some cream and then add that in will it help?

I cannot show up tomorrow with a citrus cream cheese soup!

I hand mixed the cheesecake mix but I did get the electric whisk out for whipping the cream for the salvage efforts. Then hand folded the two together.

I think it’s a combination of the heat and particularly large citrus fruits so more juice than usually. The whipped cream seems to have salvaged the situation but I’ll confirm in the morning.

Doh, you are quite right. I was thinking of baked cheesecakes but that won’t work for OP.

Oh and on the topic of the freezer/frozen cheesecake suggestions. I had a 45 min drive to the garden party and in the weather expected for tomorrow it would thaw while out at the party and woukd then just become a melted runny mess again so it’s not really an option. Even aside from texture effects it would have.

Right well. The cheesecake has set beautifully. So thank you everyone.

interestingly, the trial mini ones I made from the original mix have also set… so I think the heat played more of a factor than I was allowing for. However I still think that a big cheesecake the size of the full one wouldn’t have set properly and that it would go runny again when out of the fridge for a while.

thanks all for the advice and help.