Deliciouss Simple Mango Cheesecake + Recipe

The first time my sister and I decided to bake something, we chose an apricot souffle.

If you've ever tried to bake a souffle, you may be gasping in horror right now! coz souffles can be fluffy airy delightful things IF you can convince them to rise ...and solid eggy crap if you can't

We couldn't convince ours to rise :(

And it didn't help that our oven is a fan-forced, angryman oven that sounds like this: KERCLUNK-KERCLUNK , or that I whisked the batter for 2x longer than the recipe suggested (we thought this would make it fluffier.... err for future reference, no it doesn't)

Many years after forcing down those three spoonfuls of home-baked crap, I still can't look at dried apricots and un-soya-sauced omelettes in the face without feeling sick

Soo... maybe our first baking adventure wasn't a success...

This time however we picked something much safer

Tropical Mango Cheesecake~~ how good does that sound!!

It doesn't even require baking haha so we figured it was FAILPROOF >D

A slice of cheesecake

As you can see, our biscuit base was kinda crumbly. This might have been because we added the butter to the crumbs, instead of the other way round -- either way, when we were mixing, it seemed like there was a woefully small amount of butter compared to the MOUNTAIN of biscuit crumbs

Delicious Mango Cheesecake still in its bridal baking paper

Recipe for Simple Mango Cheesecake

(adapted from 'Cupcakes and Cheesecakes' by Anthony Carroll)

Base:

~90g butter

~150g digestive biscuits, finely crushed (reduced from 250g, unless you do want a 50:50 base to filling ratio.... and how awesome is Nigella Lawson's way of making biscuit crumbs POUND POUND! haha)

1. Melt butter

2. Stir in the biscuit crumbs

3. Press into base of lined 20cm springform tin

4. Chill until firm

Filling:

~200g cream cheese

~50g sugar

~3 mangoes (keep 1 for decoration)

~1 1/2 tbsp gelatine

~2/3 cup thickened cream, whipped

1. Beat cream cheese with sugar

2. Peel, stone, puree 2 mangoes, add to the cheese & sugar and mix well

3. Dissolve gelatine in 1/4 cup warm water, add to the mango mixture. Add cream and mix well

4. Spoon into the cake tin and smooth the surface. Refrigerate until set

5. Decorate chilled cheesecake with slices of the last mango

And voila! Your delicious mango cheesecake is now ready to eat :)

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