We went to see Jimbo and Louise’s new house yesterday. I promised Louise I’d bring a dessert. It was going to be a blueberry cheesecake, I bought all the ingredients and on Saturday morning I spent 20 minutes looking for that recipe. Couldn’t find it. I have to say I have never succeeded in making a nice cold cheesecake, the image in my head was the passion fruit one that I once tried to make  and it poured out of the tin when I tried to serve it…And I hate cooking with gelatine.

This time I got impatient, I decided to get on with it without the recipe, as I had to leave for work shortly and there would be no time for making desserts later. I thought to myself- I am a confident enough cook to come up with a dessert of some sorts.

So I blitzed the digestive biscuits, mixed it with some melted butter and pressed it all gently against the bottom of the tin. I wanted to avoid making it too hard and ending up with a base that wouldn’t come out.

Next I whipped up some double cream with vanilla sugar, added a tub of Philadelphia cheese NOT MEASURING ANYTHING AT ALL, added a juice of a lime and its zest and  nearly 2 packets of blueberries. Folded it all in, placed on the base, smoothed and topped with lots of grated chocolate.

I chilled it in the fridge and kept my fingers crossed.

We’ve had it after Louise’s pasta with chorizo, it worked nicely, the base was lovely and crunchy, but not too hard, it was a success!!!! I had no camera with me, so couldn’t take a photo of it, but it will be made again. Nice, spontaneous,  improvised and fun to make.

🙂