Rich and delicious, this easy to make baked cheesecake combines berries and chocolate. It’s perfect for entertaining because it can be made a day or two ahead..
Baked Blueberry and White Chocolate Cheesecake
Ingredients
Base
1 1/2 cups digestive biscuits, crushed
1/3 cup almond meal
1 tspn cinnamon
80g butter, melted
Filling
2 1/4 cup cream
200g white chocolate melts
500g cream cheese, chopped and softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup smooth ricotta
3 eggs
Finely grated rind and juice of 1 lime
2 punnets blueberries, reserve half a punnet for decoration
White chocolate curls, for decoration
Method
To begin making your baked blueberry and white chocolate cheesecake, preheat the oven on top and bottom element 150°C
In a bowl combine the crumbs, almond meal, cinnamon and melted butter, mix well. Press the crumbs evenly across the base of a greased and fully lined 24cm spring form pan. Chill.
In a small saucepan combine the white chocolate and cream, stir over induction setting 3 until just melted, remove from the heat and cool slightly.
Beat the cream cheese and sugar in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth , add the ricotta and eggs and beat until just combined. Do not overbeat. Fold through the lime rind then the chocolate mixture until smooth. Pour half of the filling into the prepared base, top with half the berries, pour in the remaining filling and scatter over the remaining berries.
Bake for 45 minutes until set around the edges but still a little wobbly in the middle. Turn the oven off, place a tea towel in the door so it remains ajar and allow the cheesecake to cool completely in the oven. Refrigerate until required.
Decorate the baked blueberry and white chocolate cheesecake with reserved blueberries and chocolate curls.
Notes
Authors Bio
As an experienced home economist and Food Designer Trish has worked over the span of her career in the food and home appliance industry as a demonstrator, teacher, recipe developer and food stylist. For more than 20 years she worked for and later managed the test kitchen for a large FMCG company working on some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic food brands, developing recipes and usages for their products as well as styling mouth watering images for cookbooks and websites. She has also appeared regularly as a brand ambassador on a number of well loved television cooking shows.