No bake Pink Swirl cheesecake
Equipment
- 1 - 6inch cake mold
Ingredients
Cake crust
- 45 g unsalted butter
- 100 g Garnham biscuit (fig1)
- 2 tsp sugar (Optional)
Filling
- 250 g cream cheese (fig2 / soften)
- 90 g sugar (can go up to 120g if you want sweeter)
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 100 g plain yogurt (fig3)
- 150 g whipping cream (fig4)
- 3 tbsp strawberry jam
- 4 drops red food coloring (fig5)
Gelatin mixture
- 7 g gelatin powder (fig6)
- 30 ml water
- 50 ml hot water
Instructions
Make the crust
- Crushed the graham cracker finely like sand. Melt the butter.
- Mix the butter, sugar and biscuit together. Put it into the cake mold. Flatten it evenly and pressed firmly. Put it into the freezer and freeze for 30 mins
Prepare gelatin mixture
- Mix the gelatin with cold water. Wait about 2 min until it swells.
- Add in hot water and mix well. Sieve it once and put it aside.
Make the cake
- Combine the cream cheese, sugar, gelatin mixture , lemon juice and yogurt all together.
- Sieve the mixture once they are well combined
- Whip the cream until firm peak. Mix it into the cheese mixture.
- Take 100ml of cheese mixture. Add in the strawberry jam and food coloring. Mix it well and set it aside.
- Add the white cheese mixture into the cake mold. In every corner, add some red cheese mixture.
- Use a skewer to draw some pattern. Put it in the fridge and refrigerate it for 6 hours
- Cover the cake mold with hot towel for about 1 min. Remove the cake mold
- Decorate the cake with some fresh fruits and whipped cream. Or simply cut it and serve immediately.
Video
Notes
Ingredients - Click to enlarge the image
Other tips
1 Added the whipped cream make the cake fluffy and smooth. It also increase the total volume of the cake.
2 Make sure the cream cheese is softened. Otherwise, you can warm it up in a double boiler over boiling water.
3 Gelatin helps to stabilize the cake. It won't melt even you put it in room temperature for long time.
4 You can use gelatin sheet instead of powder. Soak the sheet into the cold water. Drain it well once it is soften. Then add in the same amount of hot water to melt it.
5 You can replace the yogurt by heavy cream. The cake will taste richer and heavier.
6 You can skip the food coloring but the color will be much lighter .
Other tips
1 Added the whipped cream make the cake fluffy and smooth. It also increase the total volume of the cake.
2 Make sure the cream cheese is softened. Otherwise, you can warm it up in a double boiler over boiling water.
3 Gelatin helps to stabilize the cake. It won't melt even you put it in room temperature for long time.
4 You can use gelatin sheet instead of powder. Soak the sheet into the cold water. Drain it well once it is soften. Then add in the same amount of hot water to melt it.
5 You can replace the yogurt by heavy cream. The cake will taste richer and heavier.
6 You can skip the food coloring but the color will be much lighter .