No-Bake Eton Mess Cheesecake!

• servings: 12 servings
• active time: 10 minutes
• total time: 14 hours 20 minutes

Ingredients

3 medium egg whites

150 g caster sugar

300 g digestives

150 g unsalted butter (melted)

500-600 g full-fat cream cheese

100 g icing sugar

300 ml double cream

1 tsp vanilla extract

100-200 g strawberries (chopped)

150 ml double cream

2 tbsp icing sugar

White Chocolate Bits

fresh strawberries

freeze dried strawberries

Directions

Meringues

Preheat the oven to 100ºc/90°c fan and line two large baking trays with parchment paper

Add the egg whites into a clean bowl and whisk to stiff peaks

Add the caster sugar, whilst whisking on a high speed, 1tsp at a time

Whisk for a further few minutes to make sure it's all mixed in, and then add your mix to a large piping bag with a piping tip

Pipe the meringues onto the baking sheets – I use a 1cm round tip to make my little meringue shells

Bake in the oven for 90 minutes and then turn the oven off and leave them to cool completely in the oven. This is useful to do whilst your cheesecake is made and setting in the fridge.

Cheesecake Base

Blitz the biscuits in a food processor to a fine crumb, or mash them up in a bag

Add the melted butter and mix to a wet sand texture

Press into the base of an 8" springform cake tin

Add the cream cheese to a large bowl and add the icing sugar and vanilla

Whisk together, and then add the double cream and whisk until thick. Alternately, whisk the cream separately and fold into the cream cheese mix.

Once its thick, fold through the chopped up strawberries.

Add onto the base, and make sure to spread the cheesecake until even. Set in the fridge for a minimum of 5-6 hours, but preferably overnight.

Carefully remove the cheesecake from the tin, and decorate with some double cream whipped with icing sugar, some strawberries, freeze dried strawberries and the mini meringues you made.

Nutrition

• Calories: 413 kcal
• Total Fat: 30 g
• Saturated Fat: 17 g
• Cholesterol: 97 mg
• Sodium: 267 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 30 g
• Total Sugars: 17 g
• Protein: 5 g