I have been recently asked a lot of questions, notably by Sissi at Withe a Glass about Japanese-style cheese cakes. Incidentally I had never heard of cheese cakes before I came to Japan 36 years ago. After investigation, cheese cakes have been around the world for quite a long time and developped into many varieties. Among them, the Japanese style seems to have acquired a lot of popularity, to the point that many customers expect them to be on offer in Japanese Izakayas abroad!
I decided it was about time to re-publish a series of them!
Here is a baked fruit cake recipe with mango that you can replace with othe rsoft fruit:
Keep in mind this is the basic recipe. Obviously you can add for taste all kinds of liqueurs!
INGREDIENTS: For an 18 cm diameter mold (12 inches)
-Cream cheese: 250 g
-Sugar: 80 g
-Frozen mango: 100 g
-Eggs: 3 large
-Plain yoghurt (Before drainage. Sieve it through a coffe drip paper filter): 500 g
-Cornstarch: 40 g
-Chocolate chips cookies: 150 g
-Margarine: 70 g
RECIPE:
– Bring back cream cheese to room temperature. Drain water from yoghurt.
-Heat the margarine for 30 seconds in the microwave at 600 Watts.
-Drop the chocolate chips cookies in a food processor and break them up. Add the margarine and mix.
-Spread the cookies mixture over the bottom of the mold. Use a mold with a bottom that can be lifted up, or line th mold with baking paper (oil it a bit then). Leave the mold inside the refrigerator.
-Drop in a (cleaned) processor the cream cheese, sugar, frozen mango, eggs (and liqueurs or other options) and mix well.
-Pour the mixture into a bowl, Add the drained yoghurt and mix with a hand whisker.
-Add the cornsrach and mix well.
-Pour the cheesecake into the mold over the biscuit mixture.
-Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius. lower temperature to 180 degrees Celsius and bake for 50~55 minutes.
-Cool down the cake completely before unmolding it.
-Easy, ain’t it?
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And most of all mille merci for linking to my blog and mentioning it! It’s so kind of you!
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The pleasure is all mine!
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Thank you for the whole “saga” of Japanese cheesecakes. They look very American-style because of Philadephia cream cheese.
Personally I’m always making both baked and raw cheesecakes with curd (fresh) cheese (fromage blanc in French or a kind of thicker cottage cheese). They are Central European-style cheesecakes with a certain tanginess (because made of natural fresh cheese, not cream cheese) and a very low fat content compared to cream cheese-based cheesecakes.
(I think you have seen the baked one: http://www.withaglass.com/?p=7530, and this is the raw cheesecake: http://www.withaglass.com/?p=6728.)
Both are extremely healthy and light and the way my mum prepared them, so for me a traditional cheesecake means always a light and healthier cake 😉
I will certainly get some ideas from all your posts and adapt them to my Central European-style cheesecakes. Thank you for the inspiration!
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You are most welcome!
Actually I have a lot of desserts in the offing. I’ll just have to findthe names of the next sagas! LOL
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