No-bake Lime Cheescake

[zebraa]

Such an easy, simple recipe. Easy to make GF with GF biscuits and with buying the right cream cheese and biscuits, easy to make it non-preservative and non-additive.

110g unsalted butter
200g plain biscuits
375g sweetened condensed milk
400g cream cheese
80ml (1/3c) lime juice
10 ml (2 tsp) vanilla essence

TMX butter at 80 deg, S2 for a few minutes till melted
add biscuits and slowly go up to S5 till the right consistancy. Just keep an eye on it.

remove from TMX and pop into greased 20cm tart tin. Press down.

Clean TMX with paper towl and pop in the s.c.milk and cream cheese. S5 till smooth. Add lime juice and vanilla essence and do S5 till smooth again.

Pop onto base and put in fridge for 4 hours or overnight.

So quick and easy! And good.

members' comments

astarra - Made these minus the lime juice and adding lemon curd.....what can I say but YUM!!  I found the base quite crumbly, even after adding extra butter. I doubled it all to get enough for 24 individuals....well....I got 45 individuals!! We don't mind tho, they are so yum! 
Made 24 of these in muffin tins today using 2x250gm blocks of cream cheese, 1 tin condensed milk, 150gm lemon curd, (and the vanilla too of course) for the filling, but had to triple the base to get enough.

[Halex]

Looks lovely, was given 20 limes n friday so am going to make this soon.

Thanks

H

[fundj&e]

Hally have u made the sweetened condensed milk in the TM ? its very good 

[Halex]

No Uni, i havent seen that recipe, please give me the link.

H

[fundj&e]

   
sweetened condensed milk
   * 1 cup  water
   * 2 cups sugar
   * 260 g  non-fat dry milk powder
   * 80 g melted margarine

mix water and sugar for 4 mins on varoma or just use hot water
add milk powder and butter

mix on 4 for 30sec then incrse speed to 6 for 30 secs more

yes, it does freeze  

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/category/recipes/dairy/powderedmilk

[dede]

The condensed milk recipe I have cooks for something like 40 minutes. This one is much quicker and easy

[astarra]

Would this recipe work just as well with lemons??? I have been wanting an unbaked cheesecake,  but looking for one without egg - (raw egg a big no-no while preg). and I love lemon cheesecake. and I'm not a sweet tooth - lemon stuff is as sweet as i can cope with. Thanx in advance...  

[Halex]

Thanks Uni,  i have all the ingredients to make the condensed milk

Astarra, I am sure lemons would work, I often swap.

H

[fundj&e]

yes it would work. i have made something similar but i add a handful of coconut and almond to the base

[fundj&e]

i just looked at my recipe and i used 100g of lemon curd

[judydawn]

Did you swirl it through or mix it completely through Uni - maybe not enough contrast in the colours for the swirl effect to happen?

[fundj&e]

i just mixed it in JD 

[astarra]

Am going to make these (using lemon curd instead of lime juice) today - anyone have any idea how many it will serve? TIA 

[judydawn]

Astarra, going by the fact that you use a 20cm tart tin, I drew out a circle the same as that and it can be either divided into 6 large pieces or 8 smaller ones.

[astarra]

Made these yesterday minus the lime juice and adding lemon curd.....what can I say but YUM!!  
I found the base quite crumbly, even after adding extra butter.  
But I doubled it all to get enough for 24 individuals....well....I got 45 individuals!! We don't mind tho, they are so yum!  


I was too impatient   to try it as the filling mix was yum, so in the photo it is still a bit unset but I will still post it....