Spiced pear and ginger cheesecake with a dark chocolate crumb recipe | Sainsbury`s Magazine

Spiced pear and ginger cheesecake with a dark chocolate crumb recipe | Sainsbury`s Magazine

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Lighter than the baked variety, this fragrant spiced pear and ginger cheesecake recipe is a showstopper dessert.

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Ingredients

  • 500ml cranberry juice drink
  • 2 tbsp caster sugar
  • 25g root ginger, peeled and sliced
  • 4 small firm pears, peeled, cored and quartered lengthways
  • 1 ball of stem ginger, roughly chopped
  • 750g ricotta
  • 50g butter, melted, plus extra to grease
  • 250g dark chocolate digestives
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder
  • ¼ tsp fine sea salt
  • 4 sheets Dr Oetker leaf gelatine
  • 4 tbsp lemon juice (about 2 lemons)
  • 280g full-fat cream cheese (we used Philadelphia)
  • 5 balls of stem ginger, finely chopped, plus 4-6 tbsp of the syrup

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