Strawberry Lemon Cheesecake
Ready In: 30 mins
Serves: 12
Yields: 1 cake
Ingredients
For crust
- 2 cups cookie crumbs
- 1⁄4 cup finely chopped almonds
- 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
For filling
- 400 g cream cheese (room temperature)
- 1⁄2 cup low fat Quark
- 2 lemons
- 1 cup pureed strawberry
- 2 tablespoons sugar (or add more if you're a sweet tooth)
- 1 (1/4ounce) package unflavoured gelatin
- 500 g chopped strawberries
- 2 -3 tablespoons sugar
Directions
- For crust:
- Mix cookie crumbs and almonds together. Add melted butter and combine.
- Press into platter or springform pan and put into the fridge.
- For filling:
- Prepare the gelatine according to the directions (if it says to add a lot of liquid, reduce this amount to no more than 50 ml).
- Mix cream cheese and quark together on low with a mixer.
- Zest the lemon.
- Add the zest, juice from lemons, strawberries, and sugar. Mix on medium until 'fluffy'.
- Add the gelatine and mix on low.
- Spread filling over the crust. Refrigerate overnight. Serve with sugared strawberries.
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