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Angela Boggiano

delicious. magazine’s food editor is an experienced writer and food stylist who's worked for numerous magazines. Her books include Pie and she co-wrote Italian Cook and The Italian Ingredients Cookbook, among others.

Serves 6

Mojito cheesecake recipe

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Takes 20 minutes to make, plus chilling

150g thin almond biscuits
25g butter, melted
4 limes
100g light muscovado sugar
4 tbsp rum
Large handful of fresh mint leaves, plus extra to decorate
400g cottage cheese
250g tub mascarpone
150ml whipping cream

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1. Break up the almond biscuits: put them in a plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin (or pulse in a food processor until finely crushed).
2. Stir in the melted butter until combined. Spoon the mixture into 6 glasses, pressing down well. Chill while you make the filling.
3. Finely grate the zest and squeeze the juice from 3 limes. Heat the sugar and 5 tablespoons of water in a s mall saucepan, stirring until dissolved. Bring to the boil and simmer for 2 minutes without stirring. Remove from the heat and stir in the lime juice and zest, rum and mint and set aside to cool.
4. Press the cottage cheese through a sieve into a bowl, then beat the mascarpone (or put in a food processor with the mascarpone and whizz until smooth).
5. Strain the lime and mint syrup through a sieve onto the cheese mixture and beat well until smooth and creamy. Spoon on to the biscuit base and chill for at least 1 hour.
6. When ready to serve, beat the whipping cream until thick and put a spoonful on each cheesecake. Slice the remaining lime into thin rounds and the rest in the blobs of cream. Decorate with the extra mint sprigs.

Nutritional info

Per serving: 535 kcals, 32.4g of fat (12g saturated), 14.6g protein, 39.9g carbs, 31.1g sugar, 1.3g salt.

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debrawaters | August 4

Hi Rachel,The rum and sugar quantities were somehow missed off the recipe and have now been added. Apologies, I hope that winging it produced a decent result! Debra, Web editor

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RachelHornsby | August 3

Would have helped if I had the quantity for the rum and the sugar ... have winged it so will post again when we have eaten ... will also include the quantities I used for the rum and sugar.

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