Ingredients: Cream cheese 1/4th cup Fresh cream 3/4th cup Gelatin 1tbsp Sugar 4 tbsps/ to taste Strawberries pureed 1 cup Marie biscuits/ digestive biscuits 10-12 Butter (apprx) 2 - 4 Tbsps Colour optional Method: 1) Grind the biscuits in a mixer. Mix well with butter to form a crust. Put in a small pie dish. Bake for 10 mins at 180 o C/ 350 o F for 10 mins. Cool. 2) Beat the cream cheese with sugar in a hand mixer. Then add the cream. Beat. Then mix gelatin in 1/4th cup warm water. Cool. Add to it. Add the strawberries pureed. Mix well. Pour it over the pie crust. (6 inch pie tin) Refrigerate for 4-5 hours till set. Serve chilled. GLAZE - optional Melt some strawberry jam in a heavy bottomed skillet, pass it through a sieve & glaze the warm jam on top of the cheesecake. Top with sliced strawberries, use a brush & glaze the strawberries for a great finish.
Variation: 1) You may use 3/4th cup Fresh Cream & 4 tbsps cheese spread , for the first two ingredients & keep the remaining recipe same. 2) You may make a plain strawberry pie. Take 1 cup pureed strawberries & 1 cup cream. Adjust sugar to taste.
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