Bored of the traditional plum cake? Then try making a kokum cheesecake. Executive Chef Avinash Kumar of Novotel Imagica Khopoli shares his recipe.
Kokum Cheesecake
Ingredients:
- 500 gm cream cheese
- 150 gm castor sugar
- 100 gm curd
- 50 gm Amul cream
- 10 gm cornflour
- 3 whole eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- 50 ml kokum syrup
- 5 ml vanilla essence
Method:
- Mix cream cheese, curd and castor sugar. Add whole eggs and egg yolk in the above mixture.
- Add diluted cornflour, Amul cream, vanilla essence and kokum syrup. Mix it well. Place the mixture in a baking mould.
- Use double boiling method and bake it at 150°C for 45 minutes. Cool and garnish with almond flakes and kokum.
Yule Log
Ingredients:
- 500 gm chocolate premix
- 25 gm oil
- 250 ml water
- 300 gm whipped cream
- 150 gm chocolate ganache
- 100 gm sugar syrup
Method:
- Make the chocolate sponge by mixing oil, water and premix. Bake it at 180°C for 12 minutes. Make chocolate cream by mixing chocolate ganache and whipped cream.
- Take the sponge and soak it in sugar syrup, apply chocolate cream and roll it out and cool it for 30 minutes.
- Take it out and apply chocolate ganache and cut it in yule log shape and decorate with Christmas goodies.