Name: Strawberry Cheesecake
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 50 g caster sugar; 2 basil leaves; 8 basil leaves; 1 punnet fresh strawberries; pinch ground white pepper; cracked black pepper; 300 ml strawberry purée; 150 ml sugar syrup; zest and juice of 1 lime; 15 g sesame seeds; 50 ml water; 25 g icing sugar; 250 g strawberries; zest of 1 lime; 3 egg yolks; 50 g sugar; 40 g mascarpone cheese; 175 g cream cheese; 2 g salt; 40 g melted butter; 40 g plain flour; 40 g ground almonds; 75 g icing sugar; 20 g plain flour; 20 ml cold water; 50 g melted butter; 5 g leaf gelatine; juice of 1 lime

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

On The Menu

By James Mackenzie

Published 2011

About

I love using strawberries when they’re in season: the quintessential English summer fruit. They’re on our menu in numerous ways but this dish always goes down a treat.

It uses strawberries in four different ways, but you could always just serve the cheesecake with some fresh strawberries and keep it simple.

Ingredients

For the cheesecake base

40 g ground almonds
40 g plain flour
40

Dessert
Summer

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 150°C/gas mark 2.

To make the cake base, mix all of the ingredients together to make a light crumb. Press into a 20cm cake ring and smooth with the back of a spoon. Bake at 150°C/ga