Upside-Down Raspberry Cheesecake

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Discerning Drinkers (9 ratings)

Serve in a

Martini glass
Ingredients:
4 fresh Raspberries
1/2 fl oz Black raspberry liqueur (e.g. Chambord)
12 fresh Lemon peel (grated)
2 fl oz Absolut Vanilia Vodka
1/2 fl oz Giffard Vanille de Madagascar
1/2 fl oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup
5 barspoon Mascarpone cheese
1 fl oz Single cream/half-and-half
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Garnish:

Crumbled Digestive biscuit

How to make:

First Layer: MUDDLE raspberries in base of shaker. Add Chambord, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into centre of glass.

Second Layer: Grate lemon zest into shaker. Add rest of ingredients, SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into glass over spoon so as to LAYER over raspberry base.

Allergens:


Recipe contains the following allergens:

  • Single cream/half-and-half – Dairy
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Review:

Surprisingly, the biscuity top continues to float as you sip the vanilla cream layer right down to the point when you hit the raspberry base.

History:

Created in 2003 by yours truly after adapting Wayne Collins' original cheesecake recipe.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.5 standard drinks
  • 15.4% alc./vol. (30.8° proof)
  • 20.8 grams of pure alcohol
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New Year's Day

If Auld Lang Syne left your throat dry? And dancing left your feet sore? And drinking left your head fuzzy? Then resist the temptation to curl up in bed

Hot Toddy Day image

Hot Toddy Day

In the days before ice was easily available - and in most parts of the world, you needed to be pretty much royalty to own an ice house and keep it stocked

The day Prohibition started image

The day Prohibition started

One minute after midnight on this day in 1920, the Volstead Act became law and Prohibition descended on the United States, making it illegal to possess,

Beer Can Appreciation Day image

Beer Can Appreciation Day

Here at Difford's Guide we're huge fans of beer cans – indeed we prefer cans to bottles. So we're happy to support this marketing gimmick of a day from

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