Thursday, October 29, 2009

Chilled Mango Cheesecake

For the woman who deserves nothing lesser than second best :)


Chilled Mango Cheesecake


Ingredients:

Base:

50gm digestive biscuit crumbs
50gm oreo biscuit crumbs (I used digestive biscuit crumbs for everything)
40gm melted butter

Filling:
200gm cream cheese
1 tbsp rum (or almond essence)
1 tbsp lemon juice
55gm sugar
200g mango puree
1 tbsp gelatin
3 tbsp boiling water
200ml whipping cream (whipped)
2 tbsp icing sugar
1 mango (cubed)

Mango puree topping:
100gm mango puree
2 tsp gelatin
3 tbsp boiling water

Method:

1. Toss cake base ingredients into melted butter and press firmly on to base of cake pan. Chill in the fridge for use later.

2. Whip whipping cream with 2 tbsp icing sugar till about 70% stiff or mousse state, keep chilled.

3. Dissolve gelatine powder in 3 tbsp boiling water. Keep warm but not hot for use later.

4. Cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and rum together till smooth and creamy.

5. Add the warm gelatin solution to mango puree and blend well.

6. Stir mango mixture into cheese mixture and combine till well mixed. Blend in the whipped cream. Stir in the cube mango pieces (optional).



7. Pour cheese mixture onto cake base and chill for at least an hour.

8. Dissolve gelatin powder with 2 tbsp boiling water and stir this into mango puree. Pour topping gently onto chilled cheesecake.




Chill for at least 3 hours before serving.




happy birthday mum :)

credits to do what i like :)

2 comments:

  1. as soon as my exams are over, i'm so gonna try this out!! i have a similar recipe in my new cookbook :P n i wanna see how different it'll look.

    i've been thinking of keeping a cooking blog too! seems fun n a good way to keep track of the recipes attempted :)

    sara

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  2. yea its really awesome, just that it cant seem to hold itself in place until i freeze it. otherwise, the cake is pretty decent ;) yea. its really fun and its a platform for sharing recipes :)

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