White Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake

White Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake

This is another recipe from The People’s Cookbook TV programme. The lady who submitted this recipe honed it to perfection for her wedding day, where she made many cheesecakes for her guests desserts. When we saw the finished cheesecake on TV we just knew we had to give it a go. It didn’t win, but I really wanted it to!

One of our favourite cheesecakes is white chocolate and Baileys (my take on a John Tovey recipe), but it has a fair bit of Baileys and whisky in it, so I wouldn’t dream of giving it to little people! This raspberry one is very user friendly – uncooked and no raw eggs. Not that I have any issues with raw eggs, but I don’t have the courage of my convictions to the extent that I’m willing to serve them to any friends and family in the vulnerable groups. I’m drifting off though, this is a rich and delicious cheesecake, the raspberries seem to really pop with flavour against the creamy cheesecake, it reminded me taste wise of home made raspberry ripple ice cream. The colour of the raspberries suspended in the cheesecake mixture is so pretty too. The white chocolate is there and can be tasted - it was sweet but not too sweet. I think this would be a good BBQ pudding, and that's where I'll serve it next.



The recipe is a little vague, but I’ll tell you that I used 450g chocolate and a 250g box of raspberries. I did buy more to decorate or make a little sauce to go with the cheesecake, but unfortunately we demolished them earlier! The only place where I disagree with the recipe is that it says it would serve 6, I would have said 8, or even 10 if you have something substantial before hand - and I say this as someone who loves rich pudings! Here is the recipe:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/Food.recipe/aid/580382