No Bake White Chocolate Cheesecake

This is a really delicious white chocolate cheesecake, that we were serving at the pub I work in.

It was only meant to be on for a week, but stayed on for about 6 weeks.

This cheesecake is very rich, but light and fluffy.

Biscuit base

- 300g biscuits (I used half Digestive, half chocolate chip cookies)

- 80g butter, melted

Filling

- 375g double cream

- 750g cream cheese

- vanilla extract/flavouring (not essential)

- 500g white chocolate (Plus extra to drizzle on top!)

(I know it gets expensive, but I would recommend using a more upmarket, nice tasting white chocolate!)

1. Break the biscuits into crumbs. I did this in a food processor, but you can put them in a ziploc bag and bash them with a rolling pin.

2. Add the melted butter, and mix.

3. Squash the breadcrumbs into a cake tin until it is very compact. Put it in the fridge to cool.

4. Break the white chocolate up and melt it in the microwave (in small bursts) or over a double boiler. When it has melted, leave it to cool on the counter.

5. Whip the double cream in a large bowl.

6. Mix the cream cheese and vanilla (1tsp-1tbsp depending on how you like the taste) into the cream.

7. Add a large spoonful of the cream cheese mixture into the cooled but melted white chocolate, give it a mix, then add all of the white chocolate into the cream cheese.

8. When it is all evenly mixed, pour the filling over the biscuit base and smooth it over at the top.

9. Leave to cool in the fridge for about an hour, then melt the extra white chocolate and drizzle it over the top. Put back in the fridge and cool for a further 2 hours. This cheesecake needs to be cooled for 3 hours in total.

Enjoy!

Garlic and Rosemary Polenta Chips

Hello!

Finally all of my university work has been handed in and my exams are done!!

Undergraduate degree over!!!

I can't believe it! And I'm not really sure what to do with myself from now until October, when I go back to university to do my Masters degree.

Posting on my blog a bit more sounds like a good place to start!!

I have recently been to the Jamie Oliver restaurant in Cardiff, Jamie's Italian.

They have polenta chips there, which are very nice!! They do polenta chips or regular chips with rosemary and garlic. 

I saw a packet of pre-made polenta in the supermarket the other day, and had instant cravings for the polenta chips from Jamie's restaurant. 

Only I decided to combine his 2 flavours of chips for an ultimate polenta chip!

Recipe:

- Polenta (pre-made or make up your own)

- 2 garlic cloves 

- Rosemary (I used fresh, but dried will be fine)

- Olive oil

- Salt

        

1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.

2. I started off by peeling and slicing the garlic cloves, chopping the rosemary and sprinkling salt all over the tray.

3. Cover with a drizzle of olive oil, or any oil. Mine looks white because I used Fry Light's spray olive oil.

4. Cut the polenta into chip-sized wedges. Thick or thin, its personal preference!

5. Roll the chips around on the tray and turn them to coat them in the garlicy rosemary salty goodness.

6. Pop them in the oven for 25-30 minutes, and turn them once after 15 minutes.

The polenta chips should come out looking golden and crispy!

Now that I have opened the bag, I need to find something else to do with polenta. Polenta is quite new to me, so I'm not sure what else I can do. Any ideas?

Zoe x