Mango Basil Cheese Cake
Before the mango season wraps up, here is the recipe of Mango Basil Cheese Cake
All You Need:
Digestive biscuits : 100 gms
Butter : 40 gms
Mango pulp freshly blended and sieved : 2 cups
Cream Cheese : Half a cup
Powdered sugar: 50 grams
Finely chopped basil: 1 twig
Gelatin: 10gms
For Garnishing
finely sliced mango and basil leaves
Here you go:
In a mixture jar, crush digestive biscuits with butter. In a cake tin ( I used 6 inch diameter tin) spread the biscuit and butter powder evenly and press it with the help of spatula. This biscuit crust will form the base of your cake. Put the tin in fridge (on top shelf) for setting. 10 minutes will be suffice.
In a pan, heat gelatin with 2 tsf of water until it gets properly dissolved.
In a bowl, with the help of hand blender, blend mango puree, sugar, cream cheese and basil leaves.
Add the gelatin syrup to the mixture and mix properly. Make sure there are no lumps of gelatin.
Pour the mixture in pre set cake tin. and let it set in the top shelf of your fridge for 2-3 hours.
Garnish with sliced mango and basil twig.
Remarks:
1 I prefer using Alphonso Mangoes, as they tend to be sweet. This avoids me adding extra sugar.
2 The recipe requires 20 minutes of preparation and 2-3 hours of setting. My take: quick to make and can be prepared before the party.
3 I added basil leaves for that extra zing and flavor. One can replace basil with orange zest.
4 No oven. No baking required.
5 Gelatin can be replaced with Agar Agar. For those who are strict vegetarian.
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