I sourced for a few Strawberry Hearts cheesecake recipes and had wanted to go on and do it. However, my gf asked me to try adding Whipped Cream to the Cheesecake to make it lighter. I was abit apprehend about this approach as not many non bake cheesecake add whipped cream.
However, I decided to give it a try, as my office are mainly Japanese and they rather prefer less sweet and more milky type of cakes (from the comments they give of my various bakes).
Hence I hybrid two kinds of non baked cheese cake recipe and came out with this I made.
The outcome was great. I was so worried that it taste horrible that i have to take a slice b4 I let others take their dig into it ... Lucky it was good .. and i really leave how the cheese texture and fluffiness and lightness it was.
One of my japanese coll wont dont like cheese cake actually took a 2nd serving as she felt that the cake was really light and just right sweetness with a bit of the sourness from the strawberries.
This is a cut out of the cake .... my biscuit base is not firm enuff ... and i think the cheesecake abit too thick layer .. next time i will try to ensure cheesecake and jello layer is similar thickness..
Recipe as follows:-
8” square / round pan
Wash and prepare your strawberries the way you want it
(hearts or thin slices like mine)
(A)
8 - 10
pcs of Digestive biscuits – crushed to fine bread crumbs like.
100grm of melted butter mixed well into crushed
biscuits ensure crumbs can form a firm dough when grab together else the base
will fall apart when cut.
Press the biscuit base to the cake pan firmly
with the back of a spoon or by pressing with your hand.
Set pan / tray into fridge to set for min.
10mins.
(B)
50g sugar (caster / fine)
5g gelatin
150ml boiling water
(C)
250gm Cream cheese (room temp)
1tsp vanilla extract
(D)
150gm whipped cream + 1 tsp strawberry flavour
(stiff peak) – keep cold in fridge after whisking, till needed
(Note: I used 100g Frosty whip powder and mixed
with 50ml Strawberry yoghurt milk to make the whipped cream with strawberry flavor)
Mix ingredient of (B) together and stir to
ensure gelatin is dissolved into the mixture. Ensure no lumps. If there is,
remove / strain away the lumps. Let it cook to room temp.
** Start (C) only after gelatin is almost
cooled to room temp.
Beat (C) at slow speed on a hand mixer till
creamy and fluffy
Slowly pour (B) mixture to (C) while still
beating slowly.
Ensure all incorporated and now batter should
be runny consistency.
FOLD the whipped cream slowly ( I do in three
parts) and ensure that whipped cream is well mixed into better.
Pour batter into cake pan.
Arrange the strawberries your way.
(**From my experience, If u using slices, pls
ensure u have thicker slice and press abit of the strawberry into the cheese to
ensure it won’t FLOAT up when pour the jelly.)
Let cake set in fridge for min. 4hrs or
overnight
Jelly Layer (the next day)
Follow instruction on box to prepare the jelly mixture. Let it cool to room temp. Slowly pour onto cake.
(note: pour the jelly on the strawberry not the exposed cheese cake area (this will make the cheese cake loose and jelly will become milky)
Let Jelly set.
Serve cold.
As this method use little gelatin coz of whipped cream, this cake don’t stay long in room temp. Hence pls ensure keep in fridge or keep it cold as much as u can. From my own cake, I realized it become soft after about an hour. Cake still holds well but not as firmed as originally taken from fridge.
I will give this recipe another try but will use blueberry instead as i prefer blueberry .. haha ...
xoxo
Cheria
20-03-2013
