Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Another Strawberry Cheesecake

Find me boring? I just made another Strawberry Cheesecake! This time I topped the cheesecake with agar-agar over the sliced strawberries.
Thanks to the Korean Strawberry season... think Cold Storage is over-stocked with strawberries coz they r selling 4 punnets for only SGD 9.99 ;-)

and I found this FAT-FREE cream cheese @ cold storage.... and I told myself, MUST BUY MUST BUY!! :D

Also from Cold Storage... No Frills Brand Marie biscuits for the cheesecake base. FairPrice Butter from my fridge.... My fridge is always well-stocked with FairPrice Butter! Cheap & Nice!
Again, the SQ's 7 o'clock way of presenting a slice of my cheesecake :P

5 o'clock

Recipe & Instruction

Cheesecake Base

  • 150g Marie Biscuit, crushed using blender
  • 60g Butter
  • Melt butter in a frying pan, add in biscuit crumbs... make sure every bit of the crumbs r moistened with the melted butter.
  • Press the above with a metal spoon, hard onto a remove-able bottom cake mould.
    Chill in fridge for 20mins

Cheesecake Filling

  • 250g Cream Cheese (Thaw on table-top for 1hr)
  • 250g Whipping Cream
  • 50g Sugar
  • 100g Condensed Milk
  • 250g Korean Strawberries (grass & stocks removed, blended)
  • 1 tbsp gelatine powder, dissolved in 3 tbsp of water
  • Whip the whipping cream till soft peak, put it back to the fridge to prevent melting
  • Cream the cream cheese till smooth, add in sugar, condensed milk till u get a smooth texture
  • Add in the crushed strawberries
  • Add in the Whipped cream
  • Add in gelatine mixture
  • Pour onto the chilled cake base and leave to set at least 4hrs or overnight in fridge.

Topping

  • 3g Agar Agar powder (colourless)
  • 300 ml water
  • 50g sugar
  • Dissolve all the above in a pot, bring it to a boiling point, off the heat. Whisk the mixture for a while to cool off before pouring on the set cheesecake.
  • Slice 10 strawberries and place the neatly on the set cheesecake.
  • VERY SLOWLY, pour the agar-agar mixture on the cheesecake, make sure all the strawberries slices are covered.
  • Put it back to the Fridge to set for at least 3hrs.

3 comments:

  1. Hi, your cheese cake looks so yummy. I would like to make it this for my hubby's surprise party this sat. May I check
    (1) Can I freeze the cake after it's completed (so I can hide it in the freezer) and for how long?
    (2) May I know the size of the cake tray you are using?

    Many thanks, Daphne

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  2. thanks for visiting Daphne ;-)
    1) i dun suggest freezing of this cheesecake as it will affect the strawberry and agar-agar portion.... they will become frozen hard, difficult to cut and eat. quite difficult to hide this cake as the whole process needs 7-8hrs to set in the fridge leh :P else u just leave the strawberry + agar-agar portion. then u can hide it in the freezer... but same thing, the longer time u freeze, cutting is a challenge :D
    2) i'm using a 8 inch loose bottom cake pan for this cheesecake.

    enjoy! i'm making this soon too ;-)

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  3. Many thanks Sherynn :) Much appreciated! I think I'll just go without the strawberry and agar agar like you said.

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