How to Make Strawberry Cheesecake from Scratch

How to Make Strawberry Cheesecake from Scratch

Ingredients for Crust:

1. Digestive biscuits – 200 gm (make crumbs)
2. Butter, melted – 75 gm or 3 tbsp

Mix biscuit crumbs in melted butter and press into your preferred pan, and bake in preheat oven to 350 degrees F, Gas Mark 4, 180C for 8 minutes. Then set aside.

Ingredients for filling Cheesecake:

1. Curd cheese – ½ cup (1/2 cup yogurt hang in muslin clothe for whole night)
2. Cream cheese – 200 gm
3. Sugar – 10 tbsp
4. Egg whites – 3
5. Egg Yolks – 3
6. Whipped cream – 400gm
7. Strawberry essence – few drops
8. Icing sugar – 2 tbsp
9. Gelatin powder – 1 tbsp (dissolves in 1/4 cup water)

Method:

• Take a pan, put in water and gelatin powder, mix well and put on heat for 30 seconds and remove.
• Beat egg whites along with 5 tbsp sugar until stiff.
• Take another bowl add egg yolks and 5 tbsp sugar, beat, then add curd cheese and cream cheese, beat with beater, during beating add gelatin mixture, whipped cream and strawberry essence, beat for 2 sec.
• Then add egg whites and mix with spatula.
• Pour batter into prepared crust, and then cover and put in the fridge to chill.
• Once fully chilled, then decorate with strawberry puree and whipped cream.
• It is ready to serve.

For Decoration:

1. Gelatin powder – 1 tsp (dissolves in 1 tbsp water)
2. Strawberry puree – 1 cup
3. Sugar – 3 tbsp
4. Red food colour – few drops
5. Strawberry essence – few drops
6. Whipped cream – as required

• Cook puree with sugar until sugar dissolves, then add essence, food color and gelatin mixture, mix and spread on cheese cake.
• When puree settles down, decorate with whipped cream and serve.