Mrs BC's House of Chaos: Fancy Little Cheesecakes

I spent last weekend at ProBlogger, Australia's most excellent conference for bloggers, and I have to tell you - QT Hotel on the Gold Coast does the best food. I will post about this in a few days because it deserves it's own post. Everything was fantastic, especially the amazing deserts. These individual puddings where a show stopper - Heston Blumenthal type salted caramel crumb popping candy chocolate mousse thingies with a small capsule of essence of butterscotch to inject into the pudding. Can you even? I cannot. I cannot even. Yes, that is a tower of fruit behind it.

So it was a bit of a rude shock when I got home and there was not even any vanilla ice cream in the freezer. I wanted a special little pudding in a fancy glass, dammit! So I made these. So easy, and fairly impressive, especially to my family that had not been having food adventures on the Gold Coast, and knew no better.

Fancy Little Cheesecakes

Ingredients

1 tin of Condensed Milk
1 packet of butternut biscuits (you'll only need about 4)
juice of 1 lemon
about half a punnet of strawberries (or use any other fruit in season)
a tablespoon of castor sugar.

Method

Put the biscuits in a plastic bag and bash them with a rolling pin until they are crumbs, divide the crumbs into individual glasses. I used 4 espresso glasses, and two other glasses because I was short. (Side note: Where have my espresso glasses gone??)
Pour the condensed milk into a bowl and squeeze in the lemon juice. Stir quickly, it will start to firm up in a matter of minutes. Divide into the glasses, just plop it on top of the crumbs.
Reserve as many strawberries as you have glasses, then puree the rest with the castor sugar. Pour the strawberry puree evenly over the cheesecakes. Place a strawberry on top of each one and put them in the fridge until you are ready to eat them.

Ta-da! How easy was that? They won't need long in the fridge, you could probably get away with 15 minutes, as it's not the temperature that firms them up, it's the action of the lemon juice on the condensed milk. Feel free to get creative with them and put anything you like in there. Chocolate shavings on the top? Coconut in the crumb? A layer of pureed mango under the cheesecake and a drizzle of passionfruit on the top? Whatever makes you feel a bit fancy!