Strawberries & Cream Cheesecake

Hello loyal and patient fans...(members of my family and probably some middle aged Asian businessmen that got here accidentally while surfing for Hentai porn). I know I keep leaving it years between posts but it's nice to be dramatic and attention seeking reappearing like that guy in The Prestige.

 Incase anyone cares how my life is going at uni i'll give a brief update. I've finally started acting like a real student and went to two whole seminars. Little did I know prior to this that it was possible to spend 120 minutes learning about walls. I've also cut down on my unhealthy Internet shopping addiction and am enriching my life with more positive things, like cigarettes and Pretty Little Liars.

 The rest of semester 2 so far has really been a blur of drama, vomit, people falling in bushes and lots of questionably tight and slutty clothing...on my friend James Phillips. It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that sometimes I like a break from it all to come home and talk to my cookery books. But only a short break, to bring cake back to the troops.

 Today's recipe is really a keeper. Strawberries and cream cheesecake. *sighhhh* it just sounds so perfect as a pairing like honey and lemon, or Kardashian and leopard print, or Milton Karamani and fake tan.

It's honestly the best recipe ever. It tastes how I assume Peter Pan clouds taste. It's a very modest but pretty cake and tastes creamy and light, like a purer version of Haagen Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream.

I decided to go with this recipe because I neglected to make my best friend Tally a birthday cake. Strawberries and cream is the picky bitches favourite flavour so I've had to go with it. Not that I wasn't a good enough friend on her birthday; coming down to London to wear a bikini in MARCH.

 Boys will probably not understand this, but the Universe gives girls exactly 10 months from the moment they stop wearing bikinis in September to the painstaking time they start again in June to mentally, emotionally and physically prepare for this harrowing task. So when thrown a curveball like this, we suddenly drop our smug late-winter attitude of 'I definitely look fabulous under my onesie, not like a pale doughboy' and jump ship. (but then we realise that requires a bikini and stay on the ship but in great lighting).

 Well if there was ever a cake to destroy the ability to bikini ever again it's this one - and it's fabulous.

 Here's the recipe:
 1. Mash up half a pack of digestives with a rolling pin, then stir in 100g melted butter. Line detachable bottom pan with this base.
 2. Boil 200g chopped strawberries with 80g caster sugar and 30ml water. As the strawbs go soft and the water reduces by half, remove from heat to cool.
3. Whip up 600g cream cheese with 100g caster sugar, then slowly beat in 2 eggs - one at a time. Stir in cooled strawberries.
4. Pour on top of base and wrap pan in foil, then place in a larger pan filled 3/4 top with water. Cook on 160c for half an hour. Whip up double cream to spread on top once cake is out the oven and cooled. Leave to set overnight.

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