White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Pie Food

WHITE COCOA WITH RASPBERRY SWIRL

Steps:

• For the cocoa: In a medium pot, heat the milk until just simmering. Add the white chocolate chips, vanilla and salt and cook over medium-high heat, whisking, until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Bring to a gentle boil, then keep warm.
• For the raspberry sauce: Combine the raspberry jam and 2 teaspoons water in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 20 seconds, then whisk out any lumps.
• For the garnish: To build the cocoa, dip the rim of each glass first in the raspberry sauce, then in the freeze-dried raspberries. Pour the remaining raspberry sauce into a squeeze bottle. Pipe a swirl of sauce around the inside of each glass. Portion out the cocoa. Top with whipped cream, a rolled wafer cookie and more raspberry sauce. Serve immediately.

WHITE CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Set aside 8 to 12 raspberries for garnish. Put the remaining raspberries in a saucepan with the lemon juice and 1/4 cup of the granulated sugar. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 2 minutes. Strain out the seeds and set aside to cool.
• In a food processor, add the cookies, butter, 1/3 cup of the white chocolate chips and the remaining 1/4 cup granulated sugar and pulse until finely chopped. Press into the bottom and sides of a 9-inch deep-dish pie pan. Refrigerate while you make the filling.
• Set aside about 1 tablespoon of white chocolate chips for garnish. In a double boiler or a microwave, melt the remaining white chocolate chips. Set aside to cool a bit.
• In a mixer with a paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese and vanilla until fluffy. Add the powdered sugar and beat until smooth. Slowly add the melted chocolate and beat to incorporate. Pour in the raspberry puree and beat to incorporate.
• Spread the raspberry mixture into the crust and decorate with the reserved raspberries. Chop up the reserved chocolate chips and scatter over the top. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

PHILADELPHIA 3-STEP RASPBERRY-SWIRL CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with mixer until blended. Add eggs; mix just until blended.
• Pour into crust. Dot top of batter with preserves; swirl gently with knife.
• Bake 40 min. or until center is almost set. Cool completely. Refrigerate several hours. Serve topped with COOL WHIP and raspberries.

WHITE CHOCOLATE & RASPBERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line the base of 2 x 20cm round, loose-bottomed cake tins. Put the butter and chocolate in a heatproof mixing bowl, set over a pan of barely simmering water and allow to melt slowly, stirring occasionally.
• When the butter and chocolate have melted, remove from the heat and allow to cool for 1-2 mins, then beat in the eggs and sugar with an electric whisk. Fold in the flour and raspberries.
• Gently pour the mixture into the tins and bake for 20-25 mins or until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean (the raspberries may leave a residue on the skewer, so don't be fooled by their juiciness). Remove the cakes from the oven and allow to cool in the tins for 10 mins before turning out onto a wire rack.
• To make the ganache, put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl with 100ml of the cream, set over a pan of barely simmering water. Stir until the chocolate has melted into the cream and you are left with a smooth, glossy ganache. Leave the ganache to cool to room temperature, then beat in the rest of the cream.
• When the cakes have cooled, sandwich them together with the chocolate ganache. Dust with icing sugar just before serving.

WHITE CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY TART

Steps:

• Bring cream to boil in large pot over medium heat. Remove from heat and stir in white chocolate until melted and smooth.
• Stir in mascarpone cheese until mixture is smooth and uniform.
• Pack raspberries in a tight layer over base of your favourite tart shell (but don't smush them!). Pour over chocolate mixture covering berries evenly. Some rapsberries may poke out.
• Shave dark chocolate over tart if desired.

WHITE CHOCOLATE AND RASPBERRY ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Heat milk, sugar, vanilla bean and seeds, and salt in a saucepan over medium heat until warm, about 5 minutes.
• Whisk egg yolks and about 1 cup warm milk mixture in a bowl; stir egg mixture into saucepan. Continue to cook and stir until custard thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove vanilla bean. Stir white chocolate chips into custard until melted. Pour custard into a large bowl and stir in heavy cream and vanilla extract. Cover and refrigerate until chilled.
• Pour the chilled mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's directions until it reaches "soft-serve" consistency.
• Heat raspberries in a saucepan over medium heat until raspberries begin to fall apart, 7 to 10 minutes. Press raspberries through a sieve over a bowl to remove the seeds; discard seeds.
• Gently swirl raspberries into the soft ice cream creating ribbons of raspberries. Transfer ice cream to a one- or two-quart lidded plastic container; cover surface with plastic wrap and seal. For best results, ice cream should ripen in the freezer for at least 2 hours or overnight.

PHILADELPHIA 3-STEP WHITE CHOCOLATE- RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with mixer until well blended. Add eggs; mix just until blended. Stir in chocolate. Pour into crust.
• Microwave preserves in small bowl on HIGH 15 sec. or until melted. Dot top of cheesecake with small spoonfuls of preserves; swirl gently with knife.
• Bake 35 to 40 min. or until center is almost set. Cool. Refrigerate 3 hours.

WHITE CHOCOLATE & RASPBERRY RIPPLE BAKED CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4, and line the base of a 23cm springform cake tin with baking parchment. Tip the biscuits and freeze-dried raspberries, if using, into a food processor, and blitz to fine crumbs. Pulse in the butter to coat the crumbs, then tip the mixture into the prepared tin and press into an even layer using the back of a spoon. Chill until needed.
• For the filling, put the raspberries, lemon juice and 2 tsp caster sugar in a pan over a medium heat. Cook for 4-5 mins until the berries have softened and become juicy. Transfer to a food processor and blitz until smooth. Tip into a bowl and leave to cool. If you prefer a smooth purée, sieve the mixture through a fine mesh sieve and discard the pips.
• Beat the soft cheese using an electric whisk until loosened, then whisk in 175g sugar, the eggs, yolks, cream and vanilla until smooth. Melt the white chocolate in a heatproof bowl in the microwave in 20-second bursts, or over a pan of simmering water, ensuring the bottom of the bowl doesn't touch the water. Slowly pour a third of the sweetened soft cheese mixture into the melted chocolate, whisking continuously until combined, then pour that into the rest of the soft cheese mixture. Whisk until fully combined.
• Remove the tin from the fridge, and tightly wrap the bottom of the tin with foil to prevent any leaking. Sit the tin in a deep roasting tin. Pour the cheesecake mixture over the biscuit base. Spoon over the raspberry purée, and swirl it into the cheesecake mix using a skewer.
• Put the roasting tin in the oven, then pour enough hot water into the roasting tin to come 2½cm up the side of the cake tin. Bake for 1 hr 15 mins-1 hr 30 mins, or until the edge of the cheesecake is set, but the centre has a slight wobble (it will continue to set in the fridge).
• Put the tin on a wire rack, then run a small, sharp knife around the edge. Leave to cool completely in the tin, then chill for at least 6 hrs before removing from the tin.

RASPBERRY WHITE CHOCOLATE PIE

Steps:

• Rinse the raspberries and let them dry completely.
• Cook the pie shell in the oven. Cool.
• Cover the bottom of the pie shell with a thick layer of raspberries, reserving some for the top.
• In the meantime, melt the white chocolate using your desired method. The recommended method is with a double boiler, but you could also melt it in the microwave for 1-2 minutes with 2 spoons of water at medium power. I have also done this right on the stove at very low heat.
• Mix the melted chocolate with sour cream to give it a smooth aspect and thick enough to pour over the raspberries. I play around with the amount of sour cream a tad.
• Pour chocolate mixture over the berries.
• Cover the top of the pie with the berries you reserved.
• Refrigerate for at least 60 minutes.

WHITE CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Pour milk into medium bowl. Add dry pudding mixes. Beat with wire whisk 2 minutes. (Mixture will be thick.) Gently stir in whipped topping and lemon zest.
• Spoon raspberries into crust; cover with pudding mixture.
• Refrigerate several hours or until set. Store leftover pie in refrigerator.

WHITE CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY SWIRL FONDUE

Steps:

• Set aside 1/3 of the raspberries for dipping into the finished fondue. In a blender puree the remaining raspberries. Strain the puree through a fine meshed wire sieve into a small bowl. Discard the seeds. Set the puree aside.
• In a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan, bring the cream to a simmer over medium heat and add the white chocolate. Let stand until the chocolate softens, about 3 minutes. Whisk until smooth.
• Transfer the fondue to a ceramic fondue pot and keep warm over a burner. Drizzle the raspberry puree over the fondue. Swirl a knife through the puree to create a marble effect.