Delicious cake (Iceland Strawberry Cheesecake)

Member Name: sun-is-shining

Product:	Iceland Strawberry Cheesecake
Date:	16/07/09 (67 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: great taste, quality ingredients, cheap

Disadvantages: none

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Ok, in my previous reviews I said something about living light and healthy but I just couldn't resist the Iceland Strawberry Cheesecake for only 1 Pound - and to be honest, I don't regret it!

The cheesecake is delicious and a real bargain for only 1 Pound.
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Look & Taste

The cheesecake looks really tempting when you take it out of the box. The strawberries are of a nice red, big and not squashed as you'd expect it from such a cheap cake.

As almost all Iceland products the cake is frozen when you buy it. Defrosting the cake takes around 3 hours and a bit longer if you defrost it in the fridge. That's quite a time to wait when you have that lovely cake smiling at you!

When it's finally ready to serve you'll encounter the first and only problem with the cake - the biscuit is very crumbly and it is almost impossible to cut a peace out and but it on a plate without crumbling most of the biscuit.

Once on a plate the cake looks great, 1 inch of orange biscuit, 1 inch of off-white cheesecake and the top with the red strawberries.

All three layers taste great and work very well together. The biscuit is a little bit too sweet for me but that is the only critics point.
The cheese layer is nice and soft with a refreshing almost a bit sour taste. Not sour as in gone of but sour as in with a hint of lemon.
The strawberries really surprised me, they are quite big and seem to be of a good quality, also they are not squashed at all.

All in all it is a great cake with a lovely taste and absolutely ok for pudding after a family dinner.
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Ingredients & Nutrition

On the front label Iceland informs us that no hydrogenated fats, artificial colours, flavours, preservatives and GM ingredients were used to produce the cheesecake. All other nutrition information can be found on the back of the box.

Ingredients:
*Strawberries (26%), Digestive Biscuit (18%), Sugar, Low fat soft cheese (9%), Low fat yogurt, Vegetable Margarine, Glucose Syrup, Egg, Milk powder, flavourings and colours

The cake is suitable for Vegetarians but not for Vegans as it is (obviously) with cheese, egg and milk.

The nutrition info per 1/6 of the cheesecake:
*235 kcal
*Protein - 3.9g
*Carbohydrate - 30.3g
*Fat - 10.9g
*Fibre - 0.8g
*Sodium - 0.1g
*Salt - 0.3g

1/6 of the cheesecake is actually not much, I can easily eat ¼ for pudding when I'm really in the mood for cheesecake.
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Price & Value

The 540g Strawberry Cheesecake will cost you only one Pound. That's a great prize fort his lovely Cheesecake and given that it is enough for 4 to 6 people it's a real bargain.

I quite like the size of it, I'd never consider buying a big cake just for me and my friend but this is just the right amount for a nice pudding and a snack the next day.

Of course it is incredibly unhealthy - as you'd expect from a cheesecake - but Iceland used good ingredients and a surprisingly high amount of strawberries (26%).

Well worth the price!
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