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Recipe

Inject some blue life into your favorite

cheesecake! Try this recipe, courtesy of
Florida Department of Agriculture and

Consumer Services:
Spotlight

Florida Blueberry Cheesecake

Ingredients

1 whole cheesecake (homemade or

store bought)

4 pints Florida blueberries, rinsed

2 lemon, juiced

1 cup water

1 cup natural Florida sugar
Fresh mint sprigs for garnish

Directions

❶ In a small sauce pot, combine two
pints blueberries, sugar, lemon

juice, and water.

❷ Place sauce pot over medium high
heat.
Give Your Favorite Desserts the Blue Switch

Stir contents of pot as it comes to a
❸
boil, reduce heat to simmer.
by TRENT ROWE, Food Editor
❹ Cook blueberry mixture for 20

minutes or until it coats the back of LIFE IS ALL ABOUT CHOICES. Pick and choose what you want to do with what
a spoon.
you have to do it with. When you have plenty of blueberries and a lot of strawberry
recipes, choose to use blueberries.

Other than tartness, both berries are pretty well you use fresh berries in your strawberry version then

interchangeable. And if you like dessert with a bit of you can do the same with blueberries. hawed berries
a pucker, you can leave the sugar out of most recipes. trade for thawed berries. Slightly cooked stand in for

hings like jam and sauces that need thickening should slightly cooked.
have sugar or an artiicial sweetener and something A little sugar is nice on blueberries.
diferent ones
else to give the fruit body.
Try a few for
“Blueberry Shortcake” doesn’t fall trippingly of the diferent texturesicing
—,
tongue as does old favorite “Strawberry Shortcake,” granulated, light brown,
turbinadopalm sugar
but it will make your mouth smile when you taste it. If
, and
each give a slightly diferent result
❺ Strain blueberry sauce through a berries
when the hit the
sieve if desired.
cake biscuit
or .
❻ Let blueberry sauce cool to room Icing and granulated can disappear. Turbinado and
temperature, and store in the
palm sugar stay as crystals on the surface if you serve
refrigerator until needed.
them soon ater sprinkling.

❼ Top the cheesecake with some of Individual strawberries dipped in chocolate are a
the cooled blueberry sauce, leaving
fancy and festive dessert. It is diicult to do that with
extra for garnish.
blueberries, no matter how big, because they are too

❽ Place fresh leftover blueberries on hard to hold and not get your hands inger-licking
chocolaty. Choose to do a few at a time in clusters, as
top of the cheesecake and garnish
with fresh mint.
you would peanuts or raisins.
Lower some into molten chocolate and ish them
❾ Serve the blueberry topped
out when they are well coated. Corral the berries in
cheesecake with extra blueberry
sauce.

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