Frozen Strawberry Cheese Cake

It's been a productive week at work, so many deadlines and it's horrible! Beside making the Strawberry crumble before, I need another dessert that could indulge me (and my family) for this long weekend. Something sweet and sour and also fresh. So I decided to make a Frozen Strawberry Cheese Cake.



Been a long time since my first trial making  frozen strawberry & blueberry cheese cake couple years ago, it's basically same ingredients. I'm using this recipe from Nigela website with a bit of adjustment.

Strawberry Cream Cheese - Ingredients

• 125 grams digestive biscuits- I'm using Ritz Cheese Crackers
• 75 grams butter (soft)
• 300 grams cream cheese- I use 250 gr Cream cheese & 50 gr Sour cream
• 60 grams sugar- I use only 50 grams
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract- I omit this one because I don't have this at the moment
• 250 ml double cream
• strawberry jam (2 pots)
• strawberries (fresh, a few to decorate or strawberry sauce to drizzle - optional) - I made a raspberry coulis instead.
• Grated Lemon Zest

Method

1. Crush the digestive biscuits in a bowl (just use your fingers).
2. Melt the butter and then pour into the bowl of crushed biscuits and stir well. Find a container or flat bowl and press the biscuit mixture on the bottom evenly. Use a metal tablespoon/ teaspoon to spoon out jam and spread it evenly over the layer of biscuit, (make sure the spoon is wet to stop the jam from sticking)
3. In a separate large bowl beat together the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla extract until smooth. In another bowl or a processor, whip the double cream, and then pour and fold it into the cream cheese mixture. 
4. I divided the cheese mixture into half. First half mixed it with 2 Tbs of strawberry jam with a mixer combine them together.
5. Carefully spoon the strawberry cheesecake mixture first onto the biscuit and strawberry base then continue with the other mixture on top of it. Using another wet metal tablespoon/teaspoon smooth the surface.
6. Decorate with strawberries.
7. Leave in the fridge overnight or for 3-5 hours.

 

Raspberry Coulis (optional)

• 1 Cup of frozen Raspberry
• 2 Tbsp Sugar to taste

Method

1. Tip all of the coulis ingredients into a frying pan and heat until the raspberries start to break down. Using a mesh strainer, strain mixture into a bowl then continue pushing residue of mixture through. Discard seeds. Set aside until ready to serve.

To Serve: Cut a slice with a wet hot knife, add strawberry on top.

 

 

 

Pour some Raspberry Coulis to add some sweet and sour taste.

 

 

Then, Enjoy!

 

 

This is one of heavenly dessert that I love. It's creamy, cheesy but yet it's fresh because of the strawberries. My son had his first cheese cake because he's curious when I made this and he said it tasted just like strawberry ice cream :D