One question that I love to ask people is if they prefer a fridge cheesecake or a baked one. Mostly I find that people have a definite preference and mine has to be fridge. So, armed with my brand new Kenwood Titanium Major mixer, I decided to give a cheesecake a try.

I wanted to find a nice easy recipe with only a few ingredients as I like to have things that I can whip up in a hurry. I found a recipe which looked basic enough from Just Easy Recipes. First the recipe, then the results:

Super Quick Cheesecake

(serves 6-8)

Ingredients:

• 1 packet Tennis biscuits
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tin condensed milk
• 1 tub fat-free cottage cheese
• 1/2 cup lemon juice

Topping options: 1 tub fresh strawberries and 1 tbsp icing sugar OR a tin of fruit jam (such as raspberry) OR a tin of   pulp (I used a couple of tinned peach halves which I sliced thinly)

Crush the biscuits and mix with the melted butter to use as a base. Press into a shallow dish.

Mix the condensed milk, cottage cheese and lemon juice together, and pour over the biscuit base.

Pick your favourite topping: heat up a tin of ham over a stove until it’s runny and glaze it over your cake, or decorate it with fresh fruit and sprinkling of icing sugar. Alternatively glaze a tin of passion fruit pulp over your cake.

Let stand in fridge for at least two hours before serving and keep any leftovers in the fridge.

Now the result:

I did them in small portion sized glass bowls as I was considering giving them away (I can’t eat everything that I make). The colours worked well and the cheesecake was alright.

I had about two times too much biscuit base, but perhaps this wouldn’t be an issue if you made one big one. You do want a fairly thick base to break the cheesecake a little.

I’m not going to rush to make this again. Next time I’m going to look for a full on proper recipe, but as a quick pudding this does work quite nicely. I also wouldn’t do the peach slice topping again, it just wasn’t the right flavour.

I have to apologise to friends who didn’t get to taste these. I managed to drop the tray that they were on and most of them ended up upside down on the floor, not a good start to the day. I promise to make it up to you with something else though.

Watch this space for another attempt!