Raspberry and White Chocolate Cheesecake, a refreshing creamy No-Bake dessert laced with raspberries & white chocolate. Serve Semi Frozen or chilled.

Raspberry and White Chocolate Cheesecake. This is a show stopping wow! This recipe is a simple, No Bake, creamy piece of deliciousness! It's packed with Fresh Raspberries straight from my garden! & white chocolate.

A really creamy fresh tasting cheesecake, sure to please your diners! The balance of flavors and textures is wonderful. You get the full flavor of pureed fresh raspberries, contrasting with the occasional squirt of whole raspberries in the filling, and the crunchy base, then combined with the creamy gentle addition of white chocolate blended throughout the filling.

It is a very refreshing and not sickly sweet dessert. I have made this so it is not overly sweet, you can however add extra sugar to the filling if you have a particularly sweet tooth. So please enjoy our Raspberry and White Chocolate Cheesecake! Be sure to check out our other cheesecake recipes at the end of the post too!

Prep Time

20 minutes

Cook Time

4 Hours refrigeration

Yield

6 - 8 servings

You will need

8-9 inch cake round tin. Spring form or one where the base comes out. (You need to be able to get the pie out without damaging it.)

Ingredients

The Base

2 ½ oz or 75 g butter
8 oz or 220 g Digestive Biscuits (cookies, see below) or Honey Graham Crackers

The Filling

7 fl oz or 200 ml fresh whipping cream
7 oz or 200 g cream cheese (room temperature)
3 ½ oz or 200 g of Raspberries, fresh or frozen
3 ½ oz or 100 g White Chocolate (double this amount if you have a sweet tooth!)
Hold back a handful of the raspberries for the top decoration

Instructions

1. Place all your digestives / Graham Crackers in a zippy bag,

and using a rolling pin bash them until they become fine crumbs.

If you are using a spring form tin, I clip the parchment paper in & lock the tin. Then cut the excess paper off.

2. In a mixing bowl (large enough to hold the digestives) melt the butter for 30 seconds in the microwave. It should be liquid. If not, heat for a further 10 seconds, or until it has completely melted. Add the crumbed digestives to the butter and mix very well until it is all incorporated.

3. Lightly (vegetable) oil the base of your tin if using a large tin. Transfer the digestives mixture to the baking pan.

4. Use the bottom of a glass or other object and compress the digestives mixture as much as possible.

The harder it is the less likely it will come apart when you take it out of the pan. 

Use the back of your hand and go along the edges pushing the mix down and compressing.

5. Put in the freezer to set whilst you make the filling.

6. If you are using frozen raspberries, dry them off after defrosting with kitchen paper. From the Raspberry quantity, take some out for decorating and set aside, then divide the rest into two equal portions. The first portion, puree them, and the second portion, leave whole.

7. Place in a bowl the white chocolate, but hold one small piece back if you want to grate some on the top as decoration. Put in the microwave for 20-second intervals and melt until soft.

Do not overheat so it becomes liquid as your chocolate will go horrible and grainy, hence melt in 20-second intervals until real soft but NOT liquid.

Then set aside.

8. Whip up the cream cheese until fluffy then add the fresh cream. Continue to whip until stiff. Add the melted chocolate and combine, then add all the pureed & whole raspberries, folding it into the whipped mixture.

9. Brush the side of the tin all around with some vegetable oil or spray to prevent the pie from sticking. Transfer to the tin and smooth the top over.

10. Place in the fridge for 4 hours MINIMUM. You can speed up the chill time by placing in the freezer for a couple of hours.

Decorate with a sprinkling of fresh raspberries and grated white chocolate and enjoy!

NOTE: I have eaten this cheesecake semi frozen and also chilled from the fridge. I enjoyed it both ways, so whichever works for you will be absolutely fine!

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Some Tips

• Sometimes when you add certain fruits to dairy products, a chemical reaction takes place, so if you don't plan on eating the cheesecake as soon as it's had the chill time, the berries can make the cake turn blue or purple. It doesn't affect the taste, just the 'look' of it. My advice would be to add a squeeze of lemon juice to any fruits before adding to a filling if you want to keep the colors vivid. This also applies to strawberries, raspberries, etc. The color usually turns after 6 - 8 hours. The addition of lemon juice will balance out the acid and alkaline.
• If you are worried the pie has not set, place it in the freezer for 60 minutes before you are ready to serve it, and then remove it from the tin and cut whilst it is still semi-frozen.
• It is easier to cut 'clean' slices if you use a very sharp knife under hot water first, and cut straight through the pie.
• If you want to achieve a smooth finish on the top of the pie, use a long-bladed flat rounded knife, dip in a glass of hot water and smooth the surface and sides.

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