Blueberry Cheesecake
Base:
- 2.25 cups flour
- 10 oz butter (2.5 quarter blocks)
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 0.5 tsp salt
- Mix together and press evenly on a medium sized baking dish (eg. 9x14 inches). Bake until brown at 350 degrees F. Let it cool.
Middle:
- 3 tsp gelatin
- 3-4 Tbsps hot boiling water
- 1 heaping tsp of sugar
- 1 carton whipping cream
- 1 oz sugar
- 1 block cream cheese
- Dissolve 3 tsp gelatine in 3-4 Tbsps of hot boiling water which has 1 heaping tsp of sugar.
- In a separate bowl, whip cream and slowly add sugar.
- In another bowl, mix 1 block cream chese with the 3 tsp gelatin already dissolved in step 1. Add 1 oz sugar.
- Mix cream cheese mixture and whipping cream together. Beat well.
- Put on cooled base crust. Put in fridge to set (ideally overnight).
Top:
- 5-6 cups of blueberries
- 3 tsp gelatin
- 3-4 Tbsp of hot boiling water
- 1 heaping tsp sugar
- Cook 5-6 cups of blueberries in pan (medium heat).
- Again dissolve 3 tsp gelatine in 4 tbsp of hot water mixed with 1 tsp sugar separately.
- When blueberries are about to cook and are not too watery, add the gelatine mixture.
- Boil for a minute. Switch stove top off.
- Let mixture completely cool. Stir occassionally. Completely cool before putting it on top of the set cheese cake layer.