Deconstructed strawberry cheesecake and honey crisp toast

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It may be labelled as a strawberry cheesecake, but strawberry cheesecake on toast is probably a more apt description. Alyn Williams' deconstructed cheesecake recipe plays on some traditional flavour combinations in an inventive, modern way.

First published in 2015

Ingredients

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Strawberry purée

Cheesecake

  • 220g of cream cheese
  • 10ml of full-fat milk
  • 35ml of double cream
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 egg
  • 42g of sugar

Honey crisp toast

Equipment

  • Blender

Method

1
Preheat the oven to 90°C
2
For the cheesecake, whisk together the cream cheese, milk and double cream until smooth. Set aside
  • 220g of cream cheese
  • 10ml of full-fat milk
  • 35ml of double cream
3
Whisk the eggs and sugar together until smooth. Allow to settle, skimming off the foamy mixture that floats to the top
4
Combine the whisked eggs and sugar with the cream cheese mixture. Pass through a sieve and set aside
5
Pour into a 28cm x 13cm x 7cm container and cook in a bain marie for 1 hour until just set and firm on top. Remove and allow to cool before refrigerating
6
Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. Heat the honey in a pan until boiling then whisk in the butter
7
Brush the bread liberally with the honey butter and place the slices onto a non-stick baking tray
  • 4 slices of sourdough bread
8
Bake in the oven for 4-5 minutes until caramelised. Remove from the tray and set aside to cool. It should turn crispy when completely cool
9
Hull and quarter the four reserved strawberries and set aside in the fridge. Hull and roughly chop the rest of the strawberries and set aside in a bowl
10
Melt the sugar in a pan until soft-ball (112°C). Add the chopped strawberries and cook until stewed and soft
  • 50g of sugar
11
Sprinkle in the pectin and stir until dissolved, then transfer the mixture to a liquidizer and blitz until smooth. Transfer to a squeezy bottle and set aside
  • 1g of pectin
12
Swipe a spoonful of cheesecake onto the caramelised bread. Pipe 3 dots of strawberry purée on top of the cheesecake and finish with the strawberry quarters
First published in 2015

Alyn Williams has worked at some of the very best kitchens in Britain, training for many years under Marcus Wareing and Gordon Ramsay. His plates display his own unique culinary personality – brilliantly accomplished, playful and with remarkable interplay of flavours.

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