Karen Wright: A showstopping strawberry and lemon no-bake cheesecake

Karen Wright writes: Last weekend I was booked at Trentham Gardens near Stoke-on-Trent for The Great British Food Festivals.

My biggest dilemma is always deciding what to make on stage.

There are several factors to consider – holding the audience’s attention, the practicality of making a dish with limited facilities and achieving the wow factor.

I think people like to see something with a bit of pizzazz.

I also like to make things that look difficult to do but are actually easy enough for anyone to try.

With the weather forecast set to be warm, I decided that my first demo would not involve an oven at all!

I plumped for a delicious no-bake cheesecake.

For the base I used a food processor to whizz up 300g of dark chocolate digestive biscuits.

I poured in 140g of melted butter and then pressed the mixture into the bottom of a 20cm loose bottomed tin. I lined the tin with some acetate strip which I bought online.