Rasp- And Blueberry-Unicorn-Cheesecake-Tarte For Eve's Birthday-Tea-Party.

This was a really rich and yummy cheesecake with lots of raspberries and blueberry syrup. As lovely Eve adores unicorns a plastic unicorn and some pretty accesories had to be on top. Crust was an easy-peasy short crust with ground almonds and lots of vanilla, filled with a creme of vegan cream cheese and some raspberries and blueberry syrup. Simple whipped cream on top. Rich, luscious, fruity, creamy, crispy, refreshing - all at once. Perfect.

The recipe for it goes something like this:

Short crust
200g flour
100g finely ground almonds
200g margarine
200g sugar
vanilla
ice cold water
Mix dry ingredients as quick as possible until you have a very crumbly dough. Add 2 table spoons very cold water and knead until it's a nicely short crust dough. If more water is required, add more, but spoon by spoon. Otherwise you will have a squishy thingy and no short crust. Put in the fridge for at least one hour. I mean it.
Then bake for about 30 minutes, gas mark 4.


Cream cheese cream
300g cream cheese (I used Heirler , Tofutti works as well)
100g margarine
powered sugar (I didn't weigh it, I think it was also about 100g)
frozen raspberries (a handful, I guess)
blueberry syrup
blue food colour (optional)
Mix very well with a hendheld mixer. As I wanted a deep purple I used a bit of blue food colour. When the crust is cold enough, fill with cream and decorate with whipped cream and anything else you can think of.

In a better world unicorns were real.

Raspberry-rhubarb gateau.

My birthday gateau from two weeks ago with whipped cream mixed with raspberries and rhubarb. I layered cream - sponge cake - cream - sponge cake into a cake tin, lined with plastic wrap. After one hour in the fridge you can turn over the tin and remove the foil.

My foolproof sponge cake recipe:

- 220g flour

- 125g margarine (Alsan)

- 175g sugar

- 4,5 teaspoons baking powder (cream of tartar!)

- 125ml soya milk

- 125ml water

- vanilla

Mix margarine with sugar, then the rest of the dry ingredients. Mix well and then add liquids. Mix really well again and pour onto greased baking sheet. Bake for about 20 minutes until golden.Gets fluffy as hell!