Celebrate New Year Holidays with Fresh Berries

Raspberries are tasty fruits which can be used to make cereals and desserts more delicious. They can be either eaten normally or mixed with cream or chocolate. Don’t forget to try out the yellow and black ones as well.

Even though you get them throughout the year, they’re at their best during summer and spring. Fresh berries can be bought from the stores and stored in the freezer when berries aren’t easily available. These can be stored in vacuum food sealer or freezer bags with zip-lock, for a long time. Washing them before storage with diluted vinegar and spinning them dry will keep them fresh longer. But remember that to make raspberry cheesecakes you’ll need sweet-smelling, firm and plump raspberries.

MakeBerries Tastier for Celebrations

• Berries taste great when combined with plain yogurt, ricotta cheese, cottage cheese, etc. for breakfast, dessert or snack which is high in protein.

• When you mix strawberries with green salad or blend them into any salad dressing along with taste, you boost its nutritional value too.

• Home-made whipped cream with berries can be a great dessert for the holidays, when you have to serve many people as and when they visit.

• Frozen berries and a sweetener, may or may not be combined with yogurt to make a smoothie. If you can keep this mixture in the freezer then you can make delicious fruit pops from it.

• Try protein shakes with your favorite berries.

• Boil berry syrup with a little sweetener for a special topping on your pancakes.

• Make a freezer jam using berries – easy and popular with kids!

Berry Cheesecakes

The decadent chocolate raspberry cheesecake recipe can be as easy as this to follow. You’ll need a cup of 20 chocolate wafer cookies, 2 tablespoons of butter, 1.5 cups of sugar, 2 packages of softened cream cheese, 2 packages of softened reduced-fat cream cheese, 2/3 cups of unsweetened cocoa powder, 4 big eggs, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 6 ounces or 1/3 cups of divided raspberries and 2 ounces of bar semi-sweet chocolate.

Now pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Crush cookie wafers and take 1 cup of fine crumbs. Stir the crumbs in butter in a medium bowl. Bake the mixture for 5 minutes after pressing it on a spring-form pan of 9 inches. Let it cool.

Reduce the oven temperature to 325 degrees Fahrenheit now. Beat the cream cheese with an electric mixer in a big bowl. Next, beat in vanilla, sugar and cocoa, gradually increasing the speed from low to high to mix thoroughly. Now beat in the eggs, one by one. Scrape the bowl well after each addition. Now stir in 1 cup of raspberries and pour the mixture into a pan. Bake for 60-70 minutes. Leave it for 1 hour in the oven switched off.

Let it set for 8 hours. Remove rim with a knife. With raspberry toppings, your cake is ready! Try making your signatureraspberry recipethis New Year holidays based on this basic one.