Lime and Mascarpone Cheesecake
Lime and mascarpone cheesecake is a very creamy and delightfully simple dessert. It can be prepared ahead of time and stored in the fridge. No cooking is required.
Source and licence
"Lime and Mascarpone Cheesecake" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Lime_and_Mascarpone_Cheesecake, revision 4515888), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Lime_and_Mascarpone_Cheesecake&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
Read the original CC-BY-SA-4.0 Revision 4515888
What was changed: Reformatted by FoodByNation from the wiki page: ingredients and steps extracted, links and templates removed, diet notes detected from the ingredients. This adaptation is also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Create an image with FoodStudio Made by our AI generator from your own prepaid SecondMem credits. We keep no picture from the source.
Ingredients
- 500 g mascarpone cheese or plain cream cheese
- 4 limes (preferably unwaxed)
- 200 g ginger nut biscuits, crushed or ground in a food processor
- 50 g butter
- Icing sugar to taste
Method
- Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the biscuit crumbs. Press firmly into a 20 cm diameter loose-bottomed pan and put aside.
- Put the mascarpone in a bowl and beat until firm.
- Add the juice of 3 of the limes and the grated or zested rind of all 4 into the cheese. Stir, adding icing sugar to taste.
- Spread the cheese mixture over the biscuit base and chill for an hour or so before serving.