your favourite cheesecake base?

[sloane]

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?

[Little Chicken]

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

[sloane]

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.

[~Stoked~]

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

[Pandora]

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!

[allycat06]

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

[sloane]

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!

allycat - that sounds devine!!!

[Laranna]

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.

[sloane]

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

[Laranna]

I use the tinned cherries too, so easy!

[ss_storm]

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!

[allycat06]

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

[Sopdet]

McVitties Digestive biscuits or hobnobs

[LimeSlice]

Choc ripple bikkies or Shortbread bikkies would be noms

[Early Kids]

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

[Nelle]

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.