Simple cheesecake recipe- I have lost it, can anyone help?

[Poppity]

I had a brilliant recipe for a no bake cheesecake type thing, but I've lost it and don't remember at all where it came from.

It had a biscuity base. I know it had mascarpone, muscovado and cream in the topping, you beat it all together and then stirred in strawberries. I know it's very similar to a lot of other no bake cheesecakes, it just seemed to work so much better!

The finished pud was piled quite high and looked chunky and rustic iykwim!

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Ok, first the biscuit base. Usually digestives but most crushed up biscuits work well. The crushed biscuits need to be mixed with melted butter and spread on the bottom of the tin, then put in fridge to set and harden.

For the topping, I usually use a mix of cream cheese and whipped cream, but mascarpone works too (obviously), I'd just mix it all together, the cheese, cream, sugar and strawberries, and I'd also add lemon juice to give it a bit more zing.

Does that sound about right?

I do the same as Overmydeadbody

Quantity-wise:

50g butter melted in pan
100g crushed digestive biscuits (or ginger biscuits) with 50g demerara sugar

500g full fat cream cheese (soften with a wooden spoon)
100g icing sugar
blend well then add 200ml double cream
beat well, add tsp vanilla extract

beat well and add other flavourings if you want eg lemon juice, coffee cream liquer etc

to make it even more decadent artery clogging whisk 100ml double cream til soft peaks and add a glug of favourtie coffee cream liquer and top the cheesecake with that! Drizzle with Baileys....

See, I can never rmember quantities as I just 'know' how much works, so I'm glad someone else posted that!

Overmydeadbody - I'm just sad and seem to remember inane but vitally important things (like cheesecake recipes!)

Good Frank, someone needs to!

I know an average apple when cored weighs about 100g (sadly not as vital as cheesecake recipes!)

Now that IS a useful thing to know! Thank you - I shall add that to my "information that is bound to come in handy one day"file!

They sound lovely thanks, but I was looking particularly for this recipe with the muscovado sugar, it worked really well with the strawberries.

I think you're right though, I should just experiment! I'm pretty sure that I've remembered all the ingredients, just not quantities. I'm pretty sure the double cream was whipped first, then mixed with the mascarpone? I guess it would need to be as there wasn't icing sugar in it as far as I remember?

yep wipp the cream and add.

Just experiment, the mascavado obviously replaces the icing sugar as the main sweetener. Sometimes, loosing a recipe is a good thing, as it allows you to break free and just experiment. If you want a cheesecake with mascapone, muscavado and strawberries then get creating!

Best way to properly learn how to cook is to experiment.

Sorry Poppity I got a bit carried away with cheesecake lust - but hopefully the amounts for cream cheese etc was useful.