This is something we all love to make, and we have it as a birthday treat instead of birthday cake.
INGREDIENTS
Base
250 g plain chocolate biscuits
125 g butter, melted
Cheesecake topping
1 teaspoon gelatine
bit of hot water (enough to dissolve gelatine)
375 g cream cheese
½ cup caster sugar
few drops vanilla essence
300 ml thickened cream
3 Mars Bars (60 g each),
½ melted, ½ sliced
METHOD
1 Crush biscuits, add to melted butter, and mix well. Tip into a 20 cm (8 inch) spring-form tin, press down and push up slightly at the edge. Refrigerate.
2 Sprinkle gelatine over hot water. Cool. Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together. Beat cream until peaks form.
3 Stir gelatine liquid into cream cheese mixture combined with cream and Mars Bars. Pour over biscuit base.
4 Refrigerate until set.
Recipe & image from Natalie Oldfield’s fifth cook book, Love & Food at Gran’s Table.
