SWEET TREATS
Blueberry and Lemon Cheesecake Jars
- 15 MIN
- Gluten-Free, Healthy, Vegetarian
INGREDIENTS
- 300g / 10oz Cream Cheese (Philadelphia – has to be full fat)
- 100g/ 4oz icing sugar
- 330ml double cream
- 1-2 tbsp. Baileys or rind and juice lemon or rind and juice lime or 2 tsp. vanilla extract or chopped ginger
FOR THE BASE
- 100g digestive biscuits / digestive
- 100g ginger nut biscuits
- 50g/2 oz. hazelnuts (optional)
- 100g/4oz butter
TOPPINGS
- Blueberries
- Stewed rhubarb
- Lemon curd
- Melted chocolate
METHOD
SERVES FOUR PEOPLE
- Make base by crumbing biscuits in a bag with a rolling pin or use a food processor
- Melt butter and add to biscuits, mixing well and then add chopped hazelnuts
- Pile into cheese cake tin or individual jars
- Beat the cream cheese, add the icing sugar with rind of lemon and juice
- Beat the cream softly and fold into the cheese
- Taste for flavouring and adjust if needed
- Put into piping bag and pipe into containers
- Toppings can be put on top and chill for an hour/two
- Rhubarb can be roasted with raspberries and 3/4 spoons of caster sugar for 15 minutes
- Stew blueberries with juice lemon and 3-4 spoons caster sugar
- Lemon curd can be thinned with a little lemon juice
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