your favourite cheesecake base?

i'm making a cheesecake for christmas day - i thought i'd do a white choc & berry cheesecake.

i did a trial run a couple of weeks ago & it was nice - the recipe said to use white choc & macadamia nut cookies as the base (leaving them whole & just putting them on the bottom of the tin) but i still make a normal base (biscuits & butter).

but now i'm thinking i might use choc ripple biscuits next time instead of shredded wheat. overkill?

what's your fave biscuit to use? or do you do something different?

Is that from taste? I'm going to make that as well. best tasting one I had was macadamia shortbread crushed up like you would with a normal cheesecake base

that's the one!! i'm not 100% sure on the frozen berries though - it might just have been the brand i used, but they seemed a little tasteless. i'm thinking of maybe just doing raspberries. it was nice & very easy though.

macadamia shortbread would be nice.

I've tried a few different bases and IMO plain old Digestives with a bit of coconut and melted butter is the tastiest.

Mum does one that uses a dry packet cake mix as the base or at least part of it. I will have to find out because it works really well.
Unfortunately she's on a cruise til 23/12 or I'd get the recipe!

I made a baked blackforrest cheesecake the other day, it had a choc ripple and crushed hazelnut base. Nom.

stoked - i actually mean to get granitas or a digestive but couldn't see them & ended up with shredded wheat. i thought they were the same thing but they definitely tasted different (well, i HAD to try 1!)

pandora - sounds good! would still love the recipe - i'm in the mood to try lots of different cheesecakes at the moment. just need to find people to feed them to! :lol:

allycat - that sounds devine!!!

I LOVE cheesecake! I'll eat your cheesecakes Sloane :)

I usually just use the McVities Digestives and melted butter as base. Some of my fave fillings are cherries and white choc. Caramel (just use a tin of caramel and give it a really good stir until it's thinned out and pour it in the middle of the cake. Or just even a lemon one or chocolate...nom...

The best cheesecake I ever had was in Florence a few years ago. It was a baked ricotta one with berries. I haven't been able to find a recipe to match it since. It was absolutely divine.

that sounds delish eluned! and i hadn't thought of cherries....maybe they'd be better than berries. hmmmm.

I use the tinned cherries too, so easy!

choc ripple biscuits..mmm. Or I don't know how it would go with the cheesecake you're making..but oreo biscuits are great too. If you put them in the microwave to soften them a little first then crush them, you don't need to add butter as the cream between the biscuits is enough to combine it together. Or it is in the toblerone cheesecake I make!

sloane check out the philly cheese website....the black forrest one is on there and STACKS of other yummy ones.

McVitties Digestive biscuits or hobnobs :)

Choc ripple bikkies or Shortbread bikkies would be noms

I use Granita Biscuits with a bit of melted butter *drools*

Butternut snaps are yum. Once I sent DH for them and he came back with choc coated butternut snaps (they're coated on one side) and that was rather delish.