Lavender Cheesecake

What’s not to love about cheesecake? A creamy filling with a buttery, biscuit base is the perfect dinner-party dessert or a wonderful accompaniment to a relaxing cuppa.

We love the fact that if you don’t have a large family to feed, you can always freeze your cheesecake. That’s right – freeze it! In fact, it freezes just brilliantly.

If you don’t want to eat the whole lot in one go, just cut it in half and eat one half and freeze the other! But first, here’s the recipe.

Ingredients 

180g crumbled digestive biscuits

80g soft butter

300g cream cheese

200g mascarpone

100g honey

1tsp vanilla extract

3-4 drops of Lavender essential oil

1-2 drops of Lemon essential oil

2tsp lemon juice

300ml double cream

Violet gel food colour (optional)

Method

Mix the crumbled biscuits and melted butter together. Flip the base of an 8-inch springform tin so the ridges curve downward and press the biscuit mixture firmly into it. Place in the fridge to set.

Beat together the cream cheese, mascarpone and honey. Slowly tint the mixture with the food colouring (if using) until the desired colour is achieved.

Add the vanilla extract, Lavender and Lemon essential oils, and lemon juice and mix well.

In a separate bowl, add a touch more of the violet food colouring to the double cream and then whip it until it is thick, but not stiff.

Fold the double cream into the cheesecake mixture. Spoon the cheesecake mixture onto the biscuit base and chill in the fridge for at least six hours.

The Verdict

Sylvia says:

“This was really easy to make and tasted divine. It's a very smooth, creamy cheesecake and it freezes well. However, I did need to have a second helping just to make sure! I didn’t quite get the right shade of delicate lilac I was aiming for on my first attempt (as you can see from the image below!) but I toned it down on my next attempt and it looked really sumptuous”.

You can use any of the dōTERRA ingestible essential oils in your cheesecake, but we would recommend sticking to the citrus and floral essential oils.

No one ever bragged about a Thyme and Marjoram cheesecake and there must be a reason for that!