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Elegant Blue Gin Cheesecake with Fresh Blueberries
Melissa Jacobs

Elegant Blue Gin Cheesecake with Fresh Blueberries

Elegant, refreshing and beautifully unique, it’s the perfect dessert for special occasions or when you want to impress with something a little different. 🍋🫐🍰
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings: 12
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

For the filling
  • 30ml Saphirre Blue Gin
  • 200ml Blue Tonic
  • 1 cup Blueberries
  • 250ml Caster sugar
  • 600g Full fat cream cheese
  • 200ml Cream
  • 3 Large eggs
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
  • 4 Lemons Grated zest
  • 1 Lemon Juice
  • 5ml Gelatine
  • 1ml Blue food colouring
  • 50g Plain flour
For the crust
  • 1 packet broken Tennis Biscuits
  • 50ml Butter

Method
 

For the crust
  1. In a food processor, combine the biscuits and butter.
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  2. In a spring loose bottom, greased pan, press the biscuit mixture firmly into the bottom. Place in the fridge.

Filling

  1. Mix the cream cheese, 200ml castor sugar, gin, cream, lemon zest, juice, flour, vanilla and eggs. Pour over the crust.
  2. Bake in a pre heated oven, 180 degrees, for 50 minutes. The middle of the cheese cake must still be wobbly.

Blue Tonic Glaze

  1. In a sauce pan, heat the tonic, 50 ml castor sugar, gelatine and add colouring as desired. Boil for 2 minutes.
  2. When glaze cooled and thickened, pour over the cooled cake, decorate with berries as desired.