This Week I Made:

Cheesecake! Blueberry White Chocolate Cheesecake!

So the one of the reasons I’ve been baking a lot lately, is that I’ve been having Bobby Flay style throwdowns with my sister. This week we were competing over who would have the best cheesecake.  It’s still undecided who the winner was, but I’m proud to say that despite severely botching up this recipe (surprise surprise), my cheesecake was a formidable opponent.

Anyway, this was a fun recipe as it’s English and they have weird names for stuff. Like corn flour, which is known as cornstarch in the United States. Digestive Biscuits, which is an English cracker that’s similar to graham crackers. And double cream, which you can’t even find over here (I used creme fraiche instead).

Since I was super excited about this recipe, I got started on it immediately, which was also rather late at night and probably why I kept messing things up…

First mistake: After adding all the ingredients into the bowl (minus the blueberries), I realized that the recipe called for melted white chocolate and not solid white chocolate chips. I scooped out as many of the chips as I could find and corrected that.

Second mistake: After mixing everything, I poured part of the batter over the crust and then delicately added the blueberries. Making sure that they were evenly distributed. Then I covered them with the rest of the batter. As I was waiting for the oven to preheat, I realized that I had completely forgotten to include a major ingredient…the 500g of ricotta. Not wanting to ruin the crust, I scooped out most of the batter including the blueberries, added the ricotta and mixed it all again which gave it a very faint bluish tint.

Third mistake: After baking the cheesecake, I realized that I didn’t grease the sides of the springform pan. So when I removed the sides from the base, it caused chunks to pull off from the side of the cake and cracks to form on the top. Not pretty.

Still, despite all that, it actually tasted like a real cheesecake and didn’t look too horrible. Since I’ve got leftover ingredients, I’ll probably attempt this again and maybe it’ll turn out prettier.