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Due to the cancellation of this year’s Wimbledon, supermarket Aldi wants do its bit to support British strawberry growers, ensuring that the nation continues to purchase the fruit and keeps smaller businesses running.

Aldi’s Boozy Summer Berry No Bake Cheesecake

Add a splash of spirit to your garden party with Aldi’s Boozy Summer Berry No Bake Cheesecake. This summer classic is everything you could want a dessert to be. Its crumbly biscuit base is hearty and comforting, whilst the creamy, berry-filled topping is sweet and fluffy, providing a refreshing kick to counteract the buttery digestives. Made with a dash of the irresistible Ballycastle Strawberries and Cream Liqueur, now just £8.99 (down from £9.99), to give the dessert that extra kick – we can all transport ourselves back to Henman Hill heaven from our own back gardens.

Ingredients

130g Digestive Biscuits

60g Scottish Butter

135g pack Delicious Desserts Strawberry Jelly

200g pack Full Fat Soft Cheese

150ml Scottish Double Cream

100g Fresh Strawberries

200g Scottish Raspberries

100g Fresh Blackberries

Juice ½ Lemon

2 tablespoons of Ballycastle Strawberries and Cream Liqueur (£8.99).

Method

Line the base and sides of the loaf tin with some tin foil. 

Break up the biscuits and put into a food processor and turn into fine crumbs. 

Melt the butter and mix in with the crumbs, use this to line the base of the tin and then put in the refrigerator to set. 

While this is setting, dissolve the jelly in 125ml boiling water. Once dissolved add the soft cheese, the Strawberries and Cream Liqueur and whisk well to combine then allow to cool. 

Whisk the cream until thick and fold this into the cheese mix. 

Pour into the prepared tin and place the mixture back in the fridge until set, for about 20 minutes. 

For the topping, slice 30g of the strawberries and scatter them along with 30g raspberries and blueberries over the cheesecake. 

Finish with an extra drizzle of the liqueur for an extra creamy kick!

Aldi’s Red Velvet Cupcakes 
For something a little lighter, but just as sweet, re-create Aldi’s heavenly Red Velvet Cupcakes. Topped with vanilla butter cream, these cupcakes are brought to life with the decorative fresh strawberry halves, which provide each mouthful with an extra fruity zing. Indulge in these cupcakes with a rich coffee or an English breakfast tea to experience British cuisine in its full, comforting glory.  

Cupcakes
200g The Pantry Plain Flour
120g Cowbelle Unsalted Butter, softened
60ml Sunflower Oil
200g The Pantry Caster Sugar
2 x medium Eggs
160ml Cowbelle Milk
1 tbsp Lemon Juice
1½ tsp Bramwell’s White Distilled Vinegar
2 tbsp The Pantry Cocoa Powder
1 tsp The Pantry Bicarbonate of Soda
½ tsp Salt
1 tsp The Pantry Vanilla Extract
2 tbsp The Pantry Red Food Colouring
Frosting & Decoration
120g Cowbelle Unsalted Butter, softened
220g The Cheese Emporium Soft Cheese (full fat)
500g The Pantry Icing Sugar
1 tsp The Pantry Vanilla Extract
The Pantry Sprinkles
6 Strawberries, halved
Baking
12-hole cupcake tin
12 cupcake cases

Pre-heat the oven to 190°C/170°C Fan/Gas Mark 5.
In a large bowl, mix together the dry ingredients – flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Add the lemon juice to the milk and leave for 10 minutes to thicken slightly (this makes buttermilk). Next, mix together the milk, vinegar, vanilla extract and red food colouring.
In a large mixer, beat together the butter and sugar for 5 minutes until smooth, light and fluffy. Then add in the oil and mix until combined, followed by the eggs, one at a time, beating in between until smooth.
Gradually add the dry ingredients along with the buttermilk, mixing in between until smooth. Place a cupcake case into each hole in the tin and spread the cake mixture between the cases. If you have too much cake mix, spread the excess on a tray and bake along with the cupcakes. This cake can be made into crumbs to decorate. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until a cocktail stick comes out clean. When cooked, leave to cool on a rack.
Use an electric hand mixer or stand mixer to beat the soft butter and cream cheese together until smooth. Then gradually add the icing sugar, beating in between until light and fluffy.
Either pipe or spoon a dollop of frosting on top of the cooled cupcakes and decorate with the red velvet cake crumbs and strawberries.

 Notes to editors:
Aldi is Britain’s fifth largest supermarket with 880 stores and more than 34,000 employees.
Aldi is attracting hundreds of thousands of new customers every year with its range of exclusive brands, passing low operating costs on to customers in the form of low prices.
The supermarket believes in making every day amazing and that’s why every single day Aldi delivers on the best possible value for millions of families throughout the UK and Ireland across everything from award-winning fresh produce to world class gin.
Aldi won’t be beaten on price; consistently racks up award after award for quality; treats its suppliers with fairness and respect and recognises the responsibility of supporting valued institutions such as Team GB to demonstrate the importance of health and wellness. That’s Aldi. That’s everyday amazing. The reason they do this? Because Aldi believes that everyone should have access to fresh, healthy, affordable food…it’s a right, not a privilege.
 The company’s current achievements and initiatives include:

• Aldi is the UK’s lowest priced supermarket. Research released by Which? showed that Aldi is 19% cheaper, on average, than the Big Four supermarkets. It tracked the price of more than a hundred items at the UK’s eight biggest supermarkets throughout March 2020.
• Aldi has a five-year partnership with Teenage Cancer Trust – its fundraising target of £5m will go towards helping the trust to reach out to every young person with cancer in the UK. 
• Aldi’s rates of pay are significantly higher than the Government’s National Living Wage and also above the Living Wage Foundation’s recommended national rates. Store Assistants receive a minimum hourly rate of £9.40 nationally and £10.90 in London.
• Aldi is the official supermarket partner of Team GB and ensures every member of the team has access to fresh healthy Aldi food via monthly shopping vouchers, and that 1.2 million 5-14 year olds will learn about the benefits of cooking fresh, healthy food via its Get Set to Eat Fresh education initiative. Aldi has been a partner since 2015 and has extended its commitment to the 2024 Olympic games in Paris.
• In June 2019, for the sixth consecutive year, Aldi was ranked the best-performing supermarket for compliance with the Groceries Supply Code of Practice, underlining its commitment to maintaining fair, predictable and sustainable prices within its supply chain.

Full details of Aldi’s awards and achievements are detailed at www.aldi.co.uk/awards