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Food Friday - Lemon and Raspberry Cheesecakes. This week's Food Friday is a cheap and easy cheat recipe from Hazel Paterson. These can be thrown together in just minutes and are perfect for a picnic. Simply make them in clean jam jars, pop the lids on and place them in your cool box to enjoy later. Ingredients: (makes 4) * 8 digestive biscuits, crushed * 60g melted butter * 250g raspberries (or halved strawberries if you prefer) * 300ml whipping cream * zest of 1 lemon * 250g mascarpone * 300g jar good lemon curd * 2 ready made meringue nests Method: 1: Combine the biscuits and butter and divide between 4 glasses (or jam jars), use the end of a rolling pin to push the mixture firmly into the bottom of the glass. 2: Put the cream, mascarpone and lemon zest in a large bowl and beat together using an electric whisk for a couple of minutes until you have gone beyond soft peaks to firm up slightly more. Put into piping bag. 3: Put the lemon curd into a separate piping bag. 4: Add a layer of raspberries on top of the biscuit mixture then add a layer of lemon curd, followed by the cream mixture. 5: Crush some meringue and add a layer then continue with another layer of lemon curd, then cream mix then a final layer of raspberries. Top with the remaining crushed meringue.