No bake Sour Cherries Cheesecake (agriovyssino)

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This Sour Cherries Cheesecake (called agriovyssino, in Greek) is easy to make and you will certainly enjoy the delightful combination of creamy cheesecake, rich chocolate, and tangy sour cherries!

My daughter Elia, who is 20 years old, rarely cooks.  

Her specialty is mostly pasta dishes, which she loves and resorts to making some for herself whenever I cook something she doesn’t like.  

She is still in that phase of life where she hates mostly everything.  

She always complains of too much onion, too much parsley, garlic? yack, doesn’t like any “weird” spices or ingredients, meaning anything out of the ordinary and yes she will kill me if she reads my post and sees that I’ve been talking about her.  God save me, until then!!

However, she does love making pastries and if she is in the kitchen she will be making desserts.

The other day when she made this dessert and it looked so pretty, I asked her if she wanted to share her recipes in my blog but she strongly rejected the suggestion and said “You can post it but don’t say that I made it”.  

Well, I am secretly hoping that one day she will come around and see blogging with a different eye.  

At the moment I try to encourage her to get involved, in order to learn some cooking techniques, so whenever she is around when and I am cooking, I try to tell her and show her a few tips, which I hope she will remember and I also know that we humans are mimicking creatures and copy more than we are aware of.   

I know that I learned a lot by just watching my mother cook and hope that she will also learn something by the time she makes her own family, although this is at least ten years away.

Sour cherries (prunus cerasus) or Agriovyssino, as they are called in Greek, look like cherries but they are smaller and more acidic.  

I have made Glyko Vyssino (sour cherries spoon sweet), which is similar to Glyko Kerassi (cherries spoon sweet) but it tastes ten times better.  

This is the time of the year when we make some in Greece, as it is sold in the farmers’ markets and supermarkets but you will never find wild sour cherries there.    T

his one comes from Pelion, which is located in the center of Greece, between Athens and Thessaloniki, near the city of Volos but you can also find some in places where wild sour cherry trees grow.

When we came back from visiting AB Vassilopoulos and she saw the wild cherries preserve from Pelion she told me, can I please use this to make cheesecake?  

I don’t think that I could have made it any better, don’t you agree?

The recipe and food styling is her own and the only thing I did was to take the photographs.

Ingredients needed to make this No bake Sour Cherries Cheesecake (agriovyssino)

• Digestive biscuits 
• Butter
• Couverture chocolate
•  Cream cheese
• Icing sugar
• Heavy cream
• Vanilla extract
• Sour cherries preserve
• Chocolate shavings
• Fresh mint leaves (optional)

Here are two more recipes I made with these Greek products: A Dakos salad with Apricots and a Fava and Bulgur Pie.

Other relevant recipes:

Orange Chocolate Cheesecake

No Guilt Apricot Cheesecake

Profiterole Chocolate Cheesecake

Dulce de Leche Banoffee Cheesecake with Greek Yoghurt

Strawberry Cheesecake with Greek Yoghurt

Sour Cherries and Double Chocolate Cheesecake 

Quince Gingerbread Greek Yoghurt Cheesecake

Rayed Chocolate Cheesecake

Kopiaste and Kali Orexi,

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