White Chocolate & Cherry Cheesecake

[judydawn]

Name of Recipe: White Chocolate & Cherry Cheesecake (converted from Australian Good Food Magazine Dec 2010)
Number of People: Serves 10-12 people
Ingredients:
Base
160g plain sweet biscuits eg Arrowroot
100g unsalted butter, melted

Filling
125g sugar
500g white chocolate melts
250g Philladelphia cream cheese, at room temperature
250g mascarpone
125mls thickened cream

Topping

250g fresh cherries, halved & pitted
40g pure icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp cornflour
125g water

Preheat oven to 180^oC or 160^oC for fan-forced.

Base - Crush the biscuits for 3 sec/speed 7.  Add the melted butter and mix for 10 sec/speed 4.
Press the mixture over the base of a greased 23cm springform tin and bake for 15 mins. Allow to cool before filling.

Filling
Blitz the sugar for 3 sec/speed 8. Set aside.
Grate 250g of the chocolate for 5 sec/speed 8 then set aside and do the other 250g. Add the first lot back into the TM bowl and melt for 2 mins/50^o/speed 3.  Remove lid and mix any unmelted chocolate from the sides using a spatula. Melt a further 30 sec/50^o/speed 3.
Add cream cheese, mascarpone, the sugar you have set aside and the cream.  Mix for 30-40 sec/speed 8.
Pour over biscuit base and refrigerate overnight.

Topping
Combine all ingredients & cook for 8 mins/100^o/reverse/speed 1. Leave MC off. If using very ripe cherries, they may not take this long.  Mine were quite hard.
Pour into a jug and allow to cool.  Refrigerate overnight.

Next day, remove cheesecake from the springform tin and pour the cherry sauce over the top.


Tips/Hints:

Could make individual ones in muffin pans.
Any fruit would be suitable for the topping. You could use canned cherries.

[Meagan]

JD I am so pleased you have mastered attaching photos to your posts  yum yum yum 

[Cornish Cream]

JD I am so pleased you have mastered attaching photos to your posts  yum yum yum 

I agree with you Meagan I love the photos that people attach to the recipes.It makes them so appealing.Thanks Judy for another wonderful recipe with photo.It's a pity I haven't mastered it yet.

[judydawn]

Thanks girls, I love photos myself.  CC is there anything the forum girls can help you with in regard to posting photos - they did afterall teach me how to do it. DH not that way inclined?

[Cornish Cream]

Thanks girls, I love photos myself.  CC is there anything the forum girls can help you with in regard to posting photos - they did afterall teach me how to do it. DH not that way inclined?

Thanks Judy but I just can't understand the technical jargon.I need to have a one to one with my DS who is a whizz at computers.Could be a New Years resolution to master it.

[cookie1]

This looks lovely Judy. We're going to a Christmas 'do' next Saturday and have to take a plate (the host has specially ask that it have something on it) so I might do that.

[judydawn]

It is very nice Cookie, very rich so you certainly only need a thin slice which means it will feed a lot of people. I made it to take to SIL's birthday today but left the remaining piece with them so that I don't have to eat it    That's one of your tricks isn't it - make it but let someone else eat it 

[CreamPuff63]

yum, I just know this is going to be made more than once

[cookie1]

Yes indeed Judy. I love the cooking but can't do all the eating. Pass it to someone else is my motto. I still manage to eat fat too many TMX dishes.