Frances Quinn, winner of the BBC’s cult cooking show The Great British Bake Off, creates a very special cake in celebration of our landmark year.
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‘We’re here today to create a celebratory cheesecake to mark Christie’s 250th anniversary,’ says Frances Quinn, a past winner of The Great British Bake Off. Quinn’s creation, however, comes with a twist: to honour Christie’s historic foundation, she took inspiration from an 18th-century recipe, using ingredients weighing 250 grams — set in a 250mm tin.
The cake starts with a fittingly decadent base, formed from an indulgent mix of crushed biscuits, liquid butter and rapidly melting chocolate. ‘Chocolate was a luxury in the 18th century, and was even considered an aphrodisiac,’ explains Quinn. To crush her biscuits Quinn turns auctioneer, smashing them to a fine crumb with a gavel.
A thick layer of mascarpone is added, interspersed with raspberries — a nod to Christie’s classic red palette. Once set, freeze-dried raspberries provide the finishing touch, sprinkled across the top to form Christie’s iconic ‘C’. ‘This,’ concludes Quinn, ‘is 250 years of history in one delicious cheesecake. Happy birthday Christie’s!’
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