Strawberry, Lime, & Mascarpone Cheesecake
Recipe
Serves: 8 people | Prep time: 120 minutes
American | Vegetarian | Dessert
Ingredients
- 250g Digestive Biscuits
- 20g Demerara Sugar
- 120g Butter, melted
- 300ml Double Cream
- 10g Icing Sugar
- 350g Mascarpone Cheese
- 50g Caster Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Juice of 1 Lime
To decorate
- 200g Strawberries, sliced
- Zest of 1 Lime
- Handful of Fresh Mint Leaves
Method
- To make the base, blitz the digestive biscuits in a food processor.
- Transfer the crumbs to a mixing bowl, and stir in the demerara sugar and melted butter.
- Press the biscuit mixture into the base and sides of a 23cm loose-based tart tin.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Whisk together the double cream and icing sugar until soft peaks form.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the mascarpone, caster sugar and vanilla extract to combine.
- Gently fold the 2 mixtures together.
- Fold through the lime juice until the mix starts to thicken.
- Pour the filling into the biscuit base and spread out towards the edges with the back of a spoon.
- Top the cheesecake with the sliced strawberries, lime zest and mint leaves.
- Chill for one hour before serving.