Elderflower cheesecake with blackberry coulis
By: Ed Baines
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Elderflower cheesecake with blackberry coulis
- Prep time:
- 20 mins, plus 4 hrs macerating time
- Cook time:
- 1 hr
- Serves:
- 6-8
For a cheesecake with a difference try this recipe of Ed Baines with its fragrant, rich cottage cheese filling
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Ingredients
Elderflower cheesecake
- 115g Dried apricots
- 50g dried pineapple
- 75g nibbed Almonds
- apricot liqueur, for soaking
- 1 23cm pastry tart cases, baked blind
- 3 egg whites
- 700g cottage cheese
- 70g Sugar
- 2 tbsp dried Elderflowers
- 1 tbsp rose water
Blackberry coulis
- 115g Blackberries
- juice of 1 Lemons
- 55g caster sugar
Method
1. Place the dried apricots, dried pineapple and almonds in a small bowl. Add just enough apricot brandy to barely cover them. Cover and set aside to macerate for at least 4 hours.2. Preheat the oven to 190ºC/Gas 5. Whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form.
3. In a food processor blend together the cottage cheese, sugar, soaked dried fruit and almonds, elderflowers and rosewater until smooth.
4. Fold the whisked egg whites into the cottage cheese mixture. Pour the mixture into the pastry case. Bake for 45 minutes to an hour until the filling has set and the pastry is golden-brown. Cool before serving.
5. While the cheesecake is baking make the blackberry coulis. Blend together the blackberries, lemon juice and caster sugar in a food processor until smooth. Strain.
6. Serve the elderflower cheesecake with the blackberry coulis.
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