Staring at it.....
What should i make... Cheesecakes..
but... Bake or Non-bake?
Recently had been eating so much heaty food...
Took out my cookcook on cheesecake and start to flip n flip & finally settle down on a different preparation method for the cheesecake from the convention ones which i used to bake.
It uses a sponge cake base and got to melt the cheese and beat the egg white separately..
Yesh! Shall give it a try...
It took quite a fair bit of effort as I will need to prepare the sponge base and allow it to cool before it can be used. There after, the cheesecake mixture shall be steam baked for abt 1 hr plus.
But... all the efforts were worthwhile as the cake is so fantastic. It's so light and fluffy.
Simply yummy! My ah bui ate 2 pcs and still wants more :)
Recipe adapted from 我和芝士蛋糕的秘密（by Kelvin Chai)
Ingredients:
1 pc Sponge cake
160g cream cheese
50g whipping cream
70ml milk
60g unsalted butter
100g caster sugar
30g cornflour
1 tsp canilla essence
4 egg yolk
4 egg whites
1 tsp of cream of tartar
1 tbspn cocoa powder (I have used melted baking chocolate instead)
Additional fillings i used: Dark Pitted Cherries
Method:
1) Melt the cream cheese, whipping cream, milk and butter over double boiler unitl smooth.
Remove from heat.
2) Add in 50g of sugar, cornflour, vanilla and egg yolks, stir well.
3) Beat egg white and cream of tar tar until mixture form soft peak, gradually add in the rest of the
sugar, continue beating till frothy and stiff peak form.
4) Gently fold in beaten egg foam into cheese mixture until blended.
5) Stir 120g of cheese mixture with cocoa powder until well combined.
6) Place the sponge cake into the 18cm baking pan, pour in the vanilla and cocoa cheese mixture alternately into cake tin. Drizzle some cocoa mixture over the surface and draw marble pattern with skewer. Place the baking tray in a larger tray.
7) Pour enough water into larger tray to come half way up sides of baking pan. Bake in preheated oven at 180C for 30mins. Reduce heat to 120C and continue bake for another 30 mins or unitl light brown.
Remove from heat and leave to cool. Chill in fridge.
