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No Bake Cheesecake

This is a great summer dessert- perfect with berries.
Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

To make crust

  • 2 cups Superwine cookie crumbs
  • cup white sugar
  • 125 g melted butter

To make cheesecake

  • 1 cup whipping cream
  • 3 cream cheese blocks, 250 g , room temperature
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • 2 tbsp icing sugar
  • ¼ cup sour cream
  • 2 tsp lemon juice
  • 2 tsp vanilla

Instructions
 

To make crust

  • Mix together cookie crumbs, melted butter and sugar. Pour into a 9 inch springform pan and pack tightly. The tighter packed the less likely to fall apart when cutting cheesecake.
  • Freeze for 10-20 mins as preparing the filling.

To make cheesecake filling

  • Add icing sugar to cream and whip into stiff peaks. Set aside
  • Beat cream cheese and white sugar together until perfectly smooth and creamy. Make sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl to get all the cream cheese.
  • Add sour cream, lemon juice and vanilla. Beat another 2-3 minutes until smooth combined. make sure there are no large clumps of cream cheese.
  • Add cream to cream cheese bowl and fold until combined. Combine gently with rubber spatula as you don't want deflate the air in the whipped cream.
  • Spread filling into prepared crust. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 6-8 hours. Best results are to wait overnight.
  • Use a knife to loosen the chilled cheesecake from the springform pan, then remove the rim. Cut in to serving and top with seasonal berries