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    Basque-style cheese cake

    4 October 2021 - By 

    I do believe that this is now my favourite cheesecake recipe. It turns out having the best qualities of both unbaked and baked cheesecakes. Though do remember to let it fully chill! Allowed to do so the texture is improved immeasurably and the lemon within intensifies and become syrupy. Some modifications made here out of necessity. No sour cream, the task of translating the entire refrigerated aisle of the Greek supermarket proving too much for me. The volume being made up with normal double cream. Only 500ml of cream cheese. No cornflour. These changes worked just fine, and I could…

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    No-Bake Cheesecake and Red Berry Coulis

    3 June 2020 - By 

    An extremely nice recipe I would happily try again.  Although not exactly on trend there is a part of me that is beginning to suspect that I simply prefer non-baked cheesecakes… Further investigation required before the statement can be made definitively though. The cheesy mix is a delight and I’d change little.  The base was a homemade ginger nut, which is one of my favourite biscuit recipes.  Perhaps Graham crackers are not sweet, but certainly what I can say about this is that the extra sugar when crumbling the base is not required. The red berry coulis is a wonderful…