My Cheats Cheesecake

This Cheese cake recipe was the very first one I ever made when I was about 12, I found it in one of my mum’s cook books & thought that sounds so easy I will give it ago, It was a great success, I made it many times in different flavours. As I got older I got better at making cheesecakes & pretty much forgot about this one until the other week... Trip down memory lane!


1 Pack of Jelly
100 grams of unsalted butter
250 ml of Milk
125 grams of Cottage cheese
125 grams of cream cheese
150 ml of double cream whipped


Base: 300 grams of Digestive Biscuits 2 oz of Melted butter

Put the biscuits in a large bowl crush till fine, add melted butter, mix until all is coated, if not moist enough add a little more butter. Tip into 7” loose bottom cake tin, press down firmly & place in oven at 160 oC for 10/15 mins - This will make your base crunchy & not soggy! Allow to cool.

Once baked & Cooled

Place butter & milk on hob to melt add finely cut Jelly (it dissolves quicker ) remove from heat and stir till jelly has melted. Whisk double cream until stiff, add cream cheese & cottage cheese, I use a hand held blender for this job as you want to get rid of the cottage cheese lumps. add the disolved milk/jelly small amounts at a time ( it will still be warm) until all is whisked / blended in.

You want to blended out the cottage cheese lumps!

Add the warm, jelly, milk & butter to the cheese & cream
Blend lots more

Add to the baked biscuit base, you can add fruit to this if you want

Decorate with what you fancy :)

You can make an flavour, Lime using lime marmalade topping, blueberries as above, Cherries, Oranges, Pineapple. You can also do 2 packs of cream cheese instead of cottage cheese Cool over night, decorate as desired & nosh!