Sunday, October 12, 2008

coulis and cheesecakes

i've finally gotten down to making the cheesecakes that people have been bugging me for. it's the no-bake recipe from nigella; i felt it would be weird to make a strawberry/blueberry cheesecake that was baked.
cooking the strawberries and blueberries to make the coulis. the idea is to swirl the sauce into the cheesecake mixture and flavour it. the leftover pulp of the fruit i used as a 'jam'; just spread onto plain bread and eat.
i decided to make individual-portioned cupcake cheesecakes this time. also, i used a rolling pin to bash the biscuits into sandy rubble, instead of using a blender to blitz them into powder. hopefully this gives more a more crunchy base.
the cheese mixture is made and used to fill the cups. to make the chocolate cheesecake, i portioned out and stirred some cocoa into the cheese mixture. for the strawberry and blueberry ones, i drizzled some coulis in, and swirled it a bit. the strawberry coulis didn't seem to mix in well with the cheese mixture though.
there was (fortunately) quite some excess cheese mixture, so i prepared another big one in a box. this one i drizzled with the blueberry coulis, and moved a blade randomly through to create the swirl effect. this one's for home.

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