White Chocolate Cheesecake with Berries Recipe -

This delicious White Chocolate Cheesecake with fresh berries is rich and decadent and perfect for a family or friends get-together. The three layers are a real showstopper and makes a beautiful statement dessert!

We first featured this recipe in Issue 2 of ele Magazine.

RECIPE & IMAGES: Jo O’Keefe

Ingredients (serves 20)

250g Marie biscuits (or similar)
100g butter melted
8 gelatine leaves
600ml thickened cream
1 kg cream cheese (at room temperature)
2 cans condensed milk
400g white cooking chocolate, melted

Sauce

125g raspberries, 1 tbsp icing sugar, 2 tbsp water

Topping

2 mixed punnets of fresh strawberries, raspberries and blueberries.

Method

Grease and line the base of 23cm, 18cm and 10cm springform pans.
Blitz Marie biscuits in a food processor until a fine crumb forms.
Melt butter and mix with biscuit crumbs. Press firmly in to the bottom layer of the 23cm and chill in the fridge.
Soak 4 sheets of gelatine in cold water in a bowl for 5 minutes.
Heat 100ml of cream in saucepan until it almost boils, squeeze water from the gelatine sheets and mix into the cream, stirring until fully dissolved.
Gently melt white chocolate in heatproof bowl over a simmering saucepan of water.
Whiz the cream cheese with condensed milk in a food processor or with a stick blender. Add in gelatine mix and the melted white chocolate and blend until smooth.
Whisk cream until it forms soft peaks and fold through the cream cheese mixture.
Pour into the 23cm tin with biscuit crust and smooth the top flat. Fill the other two tins with remaining cream cheese mixture.
Cover all tins with cling wrap and refrigerate, preferably overnight.
Remove cakes from pans and stack on top of each other from largest to smallest on a serving plate. They should be quite firm and easy to handle.
To make the sauce blend berries, icing sugar and water.
When you are ready to serve, top with berries and drizzle with raspberry sauce and dust with icing sugar. Get ready for the gasps from your friends and family!

Love dessert and want more? Click here for our Blueberry Lemon Curd Tiramisu recipe and here for a Classic Lamington recipe.