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Lime and Mascarpone Cheesecake

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 8 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: easy, recipes for cheesecake, recipes using butter, recipes using cream cheese, recipes using lime, recipes using mascarpone, recipes using powdered sugar, recipes with metric units, refrigerated

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ALime_and_Mascarpone_Cheesecake)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ALime%20and%20Mascarpone%20Cheesecake&oldid=4515888

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

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

Directions

  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the biscuit crumbs. Press firmly into a 20 cm diameter loose-bottomed pan and put aside.
  2. Put the mascarpone in a bowl and beat until firm.
  3. 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.
  4. Spread the cheese mixture over the biscuit base and chill for an hour or so before serving.

Notes

Feel free to serve with grated chocolate.