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Easy to make with children, this cheesecake is a deliciously indulgent dessert with a tangy Ribena twist!

You’ll need:

Base

150g digestive biscuits, finely crushed
60g butter, melted

Filling

20g (2 tablespoons) gelatine powder/granules. For a vegetarian alternative, replace gelatine with agar agar
250g cream cheese, soften at room temperature
75g caster sugar
250ml (1 cup) low fat plain yoghurt
75ml Ribena Blackcurrant, Ribena No Added Sugar Blackcurrant or Ribena Strawberry squash

Method

1.    Crush digestive biscuits and mix with melted butter in a bowl. Press the mixture onto the base of a 18-20cm round pan, lined around the sides with parchment paper (you can also use clear plastic).
2.    Leave to cool in the freezer for about an hour. This will be your cheesecake base.
3.    Sprinkle the gelatine/agar agar into a bowl of 100ml cold water and leave for ten minutes. Place the bowl over a pan of simmering water and stir. Once melted, set the bowl aside to cool to room temperature.
4.    Beat the sugar and cream cheese together then add the melted gelatine/agar agar, yoghurt and Ribena squash, beating all together until smooth.
5.    Spoon onto the chilled base and swirl with a knife or fork to get a marbled effect. You can also drizzle more Ribena and add blackcurrants/frozen berries to the top if you wish.
6.    Refrigerate for at least two hours.
7.    Enjoy!

Let us know how it turns out if you try this recipe, and we’d love to see any pictures of your Ribena recipe creations! You can share them on Twitter @ribenauk as Twitpics, or using the #ribena hashtag. You can also upload them to our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/RibenaUK.

Thank you to blessedhomemaker.blogspot.com for the inspiration for this tasty recipe.

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We’ve created our own Ribena Beats Mix. Think you can do any better? Create your own mixes and share them with us in the comments section below and challenge your friends to a Berry Band mix-off by sharing your creations on Facebook!

Our band of merry berries is ready to rock, so head on over to the Ribena Berry Mixer and get those berries bopping!

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From the berry characters’ miniature mushroom drums through to their realistic facial expressions, each stage of the new Ribena advert was storyboarded by our talented team of animators. The landscape for the advert was then created using a combination of mini handcrafted models, live vegetation and CGI technology and the Ribena berries were added into the live action shots ready to be brought to life on your TV screens!

Let us know what you think of the Ribena Summertime TV advert over on the Ribena Facebook page.

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New Ribena Sparkling is here! Bursting with vitamin C and containing real fruit juice, Ribena Sparkling is available in tasty raspberry and scrumptious blackcurrant flavours. We think it’s Sparklicious! But how would you describe the taste sensation?

Is it Berrytastic, Lickariffic, Bouncemendous or Fizzlicious?

Head on over to Ribena on Facebook and spin the Sparklizer (on the left of our page) for loads of ways to describe new Ribena Sparkling, and don’t forget to share the Sparklicious fun with your friends!

Ribena is bursting with vitamin C; take a look at the new summertime Ribena TV advert & see for yourself!

Join in the Ribena fun by ‘liking’ us on Facebook, following our tweets and signing up to the Ribena mailing list.

You already know that Ribena drinks taste yummy, but you might not know that they’re bursting with vitamin C as well.

Vitamin C not only helps the immune system, it’s important for the normal function of bones, cartilage, gums, skin, blood vessels and lots more. Each 250ml serving of Ribena squash or a 288ml Ribena carton contains your daily dose of vitamin C, and most of our other Ribena drinks are rich sources of vitamin C as well.

There are loads of delicious Ribena products packed with vitamin C for you to choose from, including scrumptious strawberry and traditional blackcurrant. For those who prefer low sugar drinks, we also offer a No Added Sugar option, which is available in a squash, single cartons and multipack cartons.

So, all you need to do is pick your favourite Ribena drink and… enjoy!

You can visit the Ribena product page for our full range of delicious drinks and you can contact the Ribena Team if you have any questions about Ribena drinks.

This blog post on My Tiny Plot got us feeling all autumnal, so we wrapped up warm and went out on a countryside walk, kicking around in the crunchy, golden leaves just before the snow started to fall.

Take a look at some of the pretty pictures we managed to capture and if you’ve got any seasonal snaps of your own we’d love you to share them with us!

Ever wondered what happens once those tasty British blackcurrants make it into delicious Ribena drinks? Well, they’re packed into 100% recycled plastic bottles, so you can feel good that you’ve done a bit for the environment when you’re enjoying your favourite Ribena ready-to-drink flavours.

Find out what happens to your Ribena bottle after it makes its way onto your supermarket shelves…

While you’re here, why not find out more about Ribena and recycling? And stay tuned to the Ribena blog for lots more Ribena-related posts and delicious berry recipes!

The berry bushes that grow the blackcurrants for Ribena go through many different stages throughout their lives; from being first planted and looked after in nursery, to being harvested each year, through to stopping producing berries around the age of 12.

Have a read about their life on a Ribena blackcurrant farm:

1.    A strong twig between 7cm and 9cm is cut from a blackcurrant bush which is protected from plant pests and disease in a special nursery, and planted between October and March.

2.    Year 1- the cutting produces some small shoots. At the end of the first season, the small shoots are cut off

3.    Year 2 – the plant grows lots of strong shoots

4.    Year 3 – the shoots produced last year bear fruit for the first time and the bush grows more branches that will bear fruit the following year.

5.    Between the age of four and eight years, the bush grows its biggest yield. Per acre of bushes, between three to five tons of blackcurrants are harvested each year! An average bush can keep producing blackcurrants for 12 years.

6.    From its leaves falling in October and until March, the blackcurrant bush remains dormant.

7.    As the buds start to grow in the spring, frost protection measures make sure the buds are not damaged by the frost.

8.    Each April/May, the bushes flower. After the flowers are fertilised by insects, green berries form, which turn black over three weeks. These are then harvested between July and August.

9.    Throughout its life, a bush is looked after by being pruned, fed and kept healthy before being carefully harvested.

10.    As older blackcurrant bushes stop producing berries, new bushes are planted and the process starts again.

You can find out more about the journey Ribena berries go on, from bush to bottle, over on the Ribena YouTube channel.