Simple Cake Recipes - Strawberry Cheesecake a la Salvador Dali

"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams." Salvador Dali

"A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye" Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Simple Cake Recipes

Ingredients for 4-6 People
Time : 1 hour + 3 hours cooling - Difficulty : Easy

200 g (7 1/4 oz) of crushed digestive biscuits
500 g (1lb 2 oz) of 40% cream cheese
2 eggs
40 g (1 1/2 oz) butter
150 g (5 1/4 oz) sugar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Half teaspoon liquid vanilla extract
20 cl (7 1/4 fl. oz) custard
20 cl ( 7 1/4 fl. oz) strawberry coulis
5 cl (2 oz) chocolate sauce

(A beautiful woman sharing her homemade cheesecake)

Preparation

Heat the oven to gas mark 6 (180°C)

Strain the cheese and mix in a bowl with the eggs, sugar and vanilla. Mix in the lemon juice.
Crumble the digestive biscuits, mix with fingertips with the butter in small pieces and cover the bottom and sides of the mould, press firmly with fingers.
Pour in the cheese mixture and place in oven for 50 mins.
The cheesecake must be firm but not brown.

(Salvador Dali - Self-Portrait in the Monumental Shape of Cheesecake with Strawberry Genius - 1938)

Leave it to cool and place in the refrigerator for 3 hours. Remove from mould and cut into pieces.
Pour some custard into each plate
Pour a small amount of strawberry coulis in a circle and a second circle of chocolate sauce. Draw marks across these circles towards the outside using the blade of a pointed knife

Arrange the pieces of cheesecake on the plates, cover them with strawberry coulis, retire to bed and eat.

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