Lemon & Blueberry Dessert Pots

No bake individual serving desserts, layers of buttery shortbread, lemon cheesecake and blueberry compote
Ingredients
- 150 g Shortbread biscuits
- 35 g Butter (melted)
- 400 g Full fat cream cheese
- 65 g Icing sugar
- 2 tsp Lemon extract
- 150 ml Double cream
- 200 g Blueberries
- 1 tbsp Caster sugar
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
- Lemon zest
Instructions
- 1
To make the blueberry compote, add the ingredients into a pan on a low heat. Heat until the blueberries start to soften, their skins start to burst and they start to release their juices
- 2
Remove from the heat and leave to cool. To speed up the cooling, you can put them in a bowl and put them in the fridge
- 3
Forthe biscuit layer, use a food processor to blitz up the shortbread into crumbs, or put them in a bowl or freezer bag and bash them up with a rolling pin
- 4
Add the melted butter to the biscuit crumbs and mix them together
- 5
For the lemon cheesecake, use an electric mixer to mix the cream cheese, lemon extract and icing sugar together until smooth
- 6
Add the double cream and whisk in until the mixture thickens
- 7
To assemble the desserts, divide half of the biscuit mixture between the glasses (I used four 250ml capacity glasses) and press it down with the back of a teaspoon
- 8
Then, divide half of the cheesecake mixture between the glasses. You can spoon or pipe it in
- 9
Next, add some of the blueberry compote on top
- 10
Do another layer of biscuit, another layer of cheesecake and finally top with more compote
- 11
Garnish with lemon zest
- 12
Serve immediately, store leftovers in the fridge and eat within 3 days
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