That time a cheesecake turned into frozen ice cream

It was a lazy afternoon in the Uniforum of the Ruhr University of Bochum. Me and my friends had finished our classes for that day and we had no clue what to do. We knew that we wanted to do something all together, although we didn't know exactly what. We came up with the idea of cooking something, but we could not make up our minds on what to cook. Sweet or salty? Italian, Spanish, Polish, or German? At a certain point someone - I don't really remember who - said the magic word: cheesecake! We all immediately agreed - we had talked about making a cheesecake for quite a lot during the previous months. So, once we had decided what we needed in order to make it, we went to the supermarket.

Here's what we needed - and what you'll need too if you want to prepare a cheesecake.

Ingredients

• 2 cups cookies (they can be whatever kind of cookies - although I suggest you avoid butter cookies)
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar (optional)
• 1/2 cup margarine (or butter)
• 1 (8 ounces) cream cheese (the sweeter the cheese, the tastier the cake)
• 1 1/2 cups whipped cream
• 2 tablespoons vanilla

For the topping, you can use whatever fruit or jam you wish to use. In this case, we used blueberries jam because that's what we found at the supermarket.

Directions

The first thing to prepare is the cookie crumble. Melt the margarine (or butter) completely, then add the brown sugar. Smash the cookies until they're shattered in very small pieces. Mix together the smashed cookies and the margarine mix, then press the whole thing on an adequate baking tray and let it rest in the fridge. We used a rectangular pan, and it worked just as good.

While the crumble rests in the fridge, prepare the cream. In a large bowl mix the cream cheese with the whipped cream - I suggest you soften the cheese a bit before doing this. When they form a heterogeneous mix, stir in the vanilla and keep mixing. Then put the bowl in the fridge and let the cheese mix cool down for almost an hour.

Take out both the crumble and the cheese mix. Put the cheese mix in the pan, right over the crumble and spread it until there are no uncovered areas.

Time for the topping. Take the jam - if you wish to use one - and spread it on top of the cheese cream layer. Otherwise, if you want to just use some fruit, prepare that - cut it, chop it, slice it, peel it or just wash it, depending on the kind of fruit - and lay it on top of the cheese cream.

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Here's what it normally looks like if you put blueberries jam on top.

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As you can see, you can put different kind of fruits on top.

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Sometimes you don't even need fruit. In fact, you can put chocolate chips on top!

Anyway, at this point you should put it in the fridge and leave it there for one to two hours. What me and my friends did, since we had no available space in the fridge, was putting it in the freezer. The idea was to leave it there for fifteen to twenty minutes, just so it could become solid. Instead, we completely forgot about it until three hours later.

When we took it out, it was a massive rectangular piece of flavoured ice. So we decided to wait for it to warm up a bit. After an hour we could not wait anymore, so we decided to eat it anyway. After all, it was our creation!

Yes, it was frozen. But considering everything it wasn't that bad. It seemed just like a cheesecake-flavoured ice cream!

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