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.