4th July for our American friends!

Brothers and sisters

we are celebrating Independence Day, oh yeah.

Do, do, do, do, do

Dooooo.

Just a minute, isn't that when you kicked the British out?

Get rid of those flags!

In your declaration of independence you said that every man has the right to

life

liberty and the pursuit

of happiness!

Look down there,

because in the pursuit of happiness beautiful things are going to happen into

this bowl

We're gonna do a New York

cheesecake

I've got a beautiful recipe that's going to knock your socks off

Let's get on with it

In the food processor I've got three hundred fifty grams of digestive biscuits

I'm going seventy grams of good quality dark chocolate ok so that's a little

tweak there. Going in and let's whizz that up.

In this little pan here is two hundred and twenty five grams of butter

We're just going to melt that down

and put that into the machine. We'll whizz that up.

So that is ready and raring to go. The first thing I am

going to do.

Is put all of that cheesecake base. That's that done. This is going to go with the chocolate and butter

of course that's going to make this base go super crunchy. Okay that's

the base done. Now for the filling. You need nine hundred grams of really good

quality

cream cheese. Into that we're going to put five whole eggs, make sure they're free range so

crack them in. There we go.

Very simple. We're going to sweeten it. Some I'm going to go one hundred and fifty grams uh... of

sugar

also I'm going to put in some vanilla

Just get your knife into the pod and run it down the lengths

then use the side of the knife to scrape out those seeds

And that

is like turbo charged in flavour. Really, really gorgeous

So this goes in as well and as soon as it's got roughly mixed up I want to get some acidity and

flavour in there. And I'm going to use the juice of six limes. So in they go

So look, lime has gone in

and then we're going to go straight in, beautiful

so there we go guy's. A beautiful cheesecake goes into the oven

that will sort of plump up and cook

and get a little bit color

It's set at one hundred sixty degrees celcius which is three hundred and ten

fareinheit which is gas mark two and a half

Okay so that cheesecake is now cooked. It's had forty to fifty minutes

in the oven and it looks a little bit like this.

Yeah that's what I'm talking about

In itself lime is best friends with coconut. So i want to do an amazing

coconut meringue, really, really simple

I've got a hundred and ten grams of sugar that goes in like that.

I've got

uh... three egg whites

So I just want to divide the egg

in here

a pinch of salt is going in

that just helps it get a little bit fluffier and whack it on full whack. New York cheesecake.

Ooops, wrong knob.

Nice

So in a matter of minutes we've gone from boring old eggs and sugar

we've got something that is soft peaks like that which means that it's just hangin

absolutely gorgeous if you touch it between your hands, it's not granular

absolutely silky smooth. So over here guys

and I'm going to put forty grams of

desiccated coconut okay

the coconut will work so well with the lime

So i'm just going to sprinkle that in

It's a really nice tropical flavor, it's the fourth of July man!

We can do what we want! Get yourself a piping bag

Cut off the end, I'm getting a little star shaped nozzle. It's going to be nice.

i'm gonna fill up that bag

It's important to lick your fingers when making cake

Don't let anyone else tell any different.

grab it like this,

with your thumb and your forefinger twisted around. Twist it around like this.

and then it would just naturally push out the filling to her.

so we're going to go from the middle

really great to do with kids they love all this

and then go back in the little holes. Now this is going to go back into the oven at two and and twenty degrees

celsius

which is forty two five Fahrenheit which is gas mark 7 or something just for four or

five minutes just to put a bit of colour

and then

what I want to do is put it in the fridge for at least 45minutes

to three hours to get it super cold.

So overhear I've got one that's come out of the fridge. Get yourself a knife. Big one

go to the middle, go right down.

of course once it's been into the fridge it's much easier to cut.

we go here

of course if you want to go for a little bit

of the sauce you can just go straight in there. Look at that.

wonderful gorgeous

My version of a new york cheesecake

absolutely pimped to the hilt.

that's exactly what i'm talking about

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