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A Bite To Eat With Alice: Strawberry and lime cheesecake

Prep time: 
10 minutes
Cook time: 
25 minutes
Skill level: 
Low
Serves: 
8
strawberry and lime cheesecake finished dish on serving platter

This cake will impress any date. (ABC News: David Sier)

Alice Zaslavsky

Alice Zaslavsky is the host of A Bite To Eat with Alice, weeknights at 5pm on ABC TV and anytime on ABC iview. Alice is the resident culinary correspondent for ABC News Breakfast and ABC Radio, a food literacy advocate, bestselling cookbook author, and creator of Phenomenom, a free digital toolbox helping teachers slip more serves of veg into the curriculum.

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Michael Theo shot to fame in Love On The Spectrum and this year landed his dream role as an actor in ABC iview drama Austin.

He joined Alice in the kitchen where her challenge was to show him a dish that would impress a date.

As well as teaching him this easy to make cheesecake that looks flash, it includes an ingredient he loves — strawberries.

chopped strawberry hearts on chopping board

Make sure to hull the strawberries. (ABC News: David Sier)

This recipe appears in A Bite to Eat with Alice, a new nightly cooking show on ABC iview and weeknights at 6pm on ABC TV.

Find the full list of recipe credits here.

A Bite To Eat With Alice: Strawberry and lime cheesecake

Prep time: 
10 minutes
Cook time: 
25 minutes
Skill level: 
Low
Serves: 
8

Ingredients

Method

  1. Grease and line the base and sides of a 20cm spring-form tin with baking paper.
  2. Place biscuits and coconut in the food processor and whiz until you get a fine crumb then add the melted butter and whiz again until mixed through. Press the mix into the base of the prepared tin and chill in the freezer for 15 minutes. Wipe out food processor.
  3. Into the clean processor, combine the cream cheese, condensed milk and sour cream until very smooth and silky. Add half of hulled strawberries and blitz until smooth.  
  4. Heat 100mL water in a small saucepan until just boiling, squeeze out water from gelatine and add to hot water and stir until dissolved. Add the lime juice and stir to incorporate. Pour this mixture into the processor with the lime zest and blend until just combined. 
  5. Pour into your tin over the cold base and chill in the fridge for 4 hours until set.
  6. Remove from tin and place on a cute serving platter. Just before serving, tumble over remaining prepared strawberries and sift over icing sugar. 
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