An absolute showstopper of a dessert with a hidden raspberry flavour bomb inside each one. This dish has lots of components here for you to play with, each one can be made independently of each other to add to your dessert component repertoire.
If you would like to see Darren make this before you give it a go then you can watch the video HERE.
Makes: 4 X Individual Desserts
Components
White Chocolate & Cranberry Biscuit Base
Raspberry Liquid Centres
No Bake Cheesecake Mix
Chocolate & Cranberry Biscuit Base
Ingredients
65 g Crushed chocolate chip cookies
12 g Desiccated coconut
65 g Sourdough breadcrumbs
70 g White chocolate, melted
15 g Cranberries, dried & chopped
Method
- Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl, pour onto a tray lined with paper and refrigerate for 15 mins. to harden.
- Once cold, break into irregular sized pieces and store in the fridge until needed.
Raspberry Liquid Centres
Ingredients
60 g Raspberries
1 tbsp Icing sugar
Method
- Blend the raspberries with the sugar until liquid.
- Strain the puree through a sieve and discard the seeds.
- Pour the puree into ice cube trays and freeze.
No Bake Cheesecake
Ingredients
150 g Cream
350 g Cream cheese
75 g Icing sugar
50 g Sour cream
½ Lemon juice
1 Vanilla pod, seeds split & scraped
Method
- Whisk the cream and reserve
- Use a machine or make by hand, beat the cream cheese smooth with the icing sugar.
- Add the sour cream, lemon juice and vanilla and continue to beat until really smooth.
- Fold the whipped cream into the mix and use immediately.
Assembly
60g White chocolate coloured pink, melted
Fresh raspberries
White chocolate block to grate
- Use a pastry brush to brush the pink coloured white chocolate on the inside of each of the four glasses.
- Spoon pieces of the broken biscuit crumb into each glass.
- Pour or pipe the cheesecake mix evenly into each glass.
- Insert a frozen liquid centre and ensure it is covered with mousse, totally encapsulating it.
- Add fresh raspberries to the cream and grate white chocolate onto the surface of each dessert.
- Leave the dessert at room temperature for 30 minutes before serving to ensure the liquid centre defrosts before serving or refrigerating.