Dragon Fruit Cheesecake
A no-bake two-layer dragon fruit cheesecake set with white chocolate and gelatin. I personally made it with white dragon fruit — I mixed the first half of the mixture with the dragon fruit, and the second with raspberry jam. Make it with fresh raspberries!!!
Ingredients
| 80 g | digestive biscuit crumbs (crush biscuits with a rolling pin) | |
| 40 g | melted butter | |
| 250 g | cream cheese, room temperature | |
| 200 g | natural yogurt | |
| 1/2 tbsp | 7.5 ml | lemon juice, or to taste |
| 1 tsp | 5 ml | vanilla extract |
| 120 g | white chocolate, Meiji brand (3 packs, total 120g) | |
| 4 tbsp | 60 ml | icing sugar, sifted |
| 1.5 tbsp | 23 ml | gelatin powder (+ 2 tbsp water, soaked for 2 mins), about 15g |
| 100 g | red dragon fruit puree |
Instructions
- Biscuit base – Grease the sides of a 6 inch removable cake pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Blend biscuits coarsely and mix well with melted butter (add a little more butter if you find the crumbly biscuits are too dry). Press the biscuit crumbs with your hand at the bottom of the lined cake pan. Put the tin in the fridge for later use.
- Melt white chocolate under a double boiler and stir till smooth and leave to cool. Melt gelatin under a double boiler and keep warm.
- Place cream cheese, natural yogurt, melted white chocolate, icing sugar, lemon juice and vanilla extract in a food processor and blend until smooth. Then continue blending and pour in the melted gelatin and blend the mixture well again.
- Divide the cheese filling mixture into 2 portions. Add 3 tablespoons of red dragon fruit puree into one of the plain cheese mixtures. Gently stir well with a hand whisk and pour into the prepared cake pan and spread evenly, then place into the freezer for about 15 to 20 minutes to semi-set.
- Add 1/2 tablespoon of red dragon fruit puree (for a lighter colour) into the remaining plain cheese mixture and gently stir well.
- Then take out the cake pan from the freezer and gently pour the second layer of cheese mixture on top of the semi-set cheesecake.
- Refrigerate the whole red dragon fruit cheesecake for a few hours or overnight. Decorate the cake as desired before serving.