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Gordon Ramsay recipes Vanilla cheesecake with berry compote recipe

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Gordon Ramsay

Date Published:
15/07/2008

Watch Gordon make his tasty cheesecake recipe

Gordon rustled up this tasty cheesecake as a simple dessert for the F Word diners

Serves 8

Ingredients

For the topping:

  • 8 digestive biscuits
  • 6 tbsp caster sugar
  • 75g unsalted butter

For the berries:

  • 200g blueberries
  • 100g strawberries, sliced
  • 2 tbsp caster sugar
  • Splash of crème de cassis

For the vanilla cream cheese:

  • 400g cream cheese
  • 6 tbsp icing sugar
  • Juice ½ lemon
  • 1 vanilla pod, split
  • 600ml double cream
  • Icing sugar to dust
  • Fresh mint to garnish

Method: How to make vanilla cheesecake with berry compote

1. For the topping: grind the biscuits in a food processor. Melt the sugar in a heavy-based non-stick pan until it begins to caramelise, then carefully add the butter, shaking the pan to mix the caramel with the butter as it melts. Add the crushed biscuits and toss to coat in the caramel. Tip on to a plate, chill for 5 minutes until firm, then bash into rough crumbs.

2. Put 2 tbsp of sugar in a pan and tip in the blueberries and strawberries, add a splash of cassis. Cook over medium-high heat for a minute until the blueberries are slightly soft.

3. For the vanilla cream cheese, put the cream cheese in a large bowl. Add the seeds from the vanilla pod and icing sugar and beat until smooth, next add the lemon. In another bowl, lightly whip the cream to soft peaks, then fold into the cream cheese mixture.

4. Spoon the cream cheese mixture into the chef's ring and carefully remove the ring, using a blowtorch to loosen if necessary. Spoon the crumb mix on top of the cheese cakes and dress the fruit compote around the plate. Garnish with fresh mint.

Not the cheesecake recipe you were looking for? Try these:

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Cheesecake cups with fresh raspberry
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's cheesecake with damson sauce
Lemon cheesecake
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's goat's cheesecake with gooseberry compote

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  1. brilliant che!! delicious recipes.... thank you!
    Posted by wow on 15/11/2009 15:07:23
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  2. how long would this take to make, because i would like to make it for my cooking exam on wednesday for school but i only have one hour for it?
    Posted by geti on 28/06/2009 14:55:11
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  3. Sarah, It doesn't need either - you can make it and serve straight away! It's very nice, try substituting the vanilla for some lime juice, mmmmm.
    Posted by al60uk on 30/03/2009 21:29:24
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  4. does this require baking or fridging? xxx
    Posted by sarah on 25/02/2009 15:45:36
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  5. i love this just like i love lemon marys lol
    Posted by lemon mary on 28/01/2009 13:32:15
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  6. Hi I´ve tasted your vanilla cheesecake it was so good. The taste was very good.
    Posted by Tim Persson on 16/10/2008 15:23:26
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  7. Gordon Ramsay is like the hottest chef on the planet ! you are the best ! & i can't miss a show !
    Posted by samantha on 10/10/2008 01:19:11
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