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Swirly-whirly strawberry cheesecake  

What ingredients
you'll need

  • 50g pitted dates
  • 50g roast chopped hazelnuts
  • 100g Scottish oatcakes, broken up
  • 50g butter, melted
  • 400g cream cheese (preferably one without added salt)
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • 4 pouches of Ella's Kitchen Smoothie Fruits - 'The Red One'
  • 300ml double cream
  • Strawberries to decorate

Serves 8

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What you'll need to do

  1. Firstly line an 8'' loose-bottomed cake tin with baking parchment
  2. Place the dates, hazelnuts and oatcakes into the bowl of a food processor and blitz them for a few seconds until they are all very finely chopped like breadcrumbs
  3. Add the melted butter and mix everything together well
  4. Press the mixture into the cake tin using the back of a spoon so that it is all nice and even Chill it in the fridge while you make the topping.
  5. Mix together the cream cheese, vanilla extract and 3 pouches of Ella's Kitchen Smoothie Fruits - 'The Red One'
  6. Whip the cream until it is stiff but still soft, be careful not to over beat it
  7. Fold it gently into the cream cheese mixture
  8. Spoon the mixture onto the base evenly
  9. Drizzle over the remaining pouch of Ella's Kitchen Smoothie Fruits and run a skewer through it to get a marbled effect
  10. Chill it for a few hours to set
  11. Decorate it with strawberries before serving

Preparation time: 25 minutes

Cooking time: 2 1/2 hours