Ingredients
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Strawberry Gel
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450 grams strawberry puree
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50 grams raspberry purée
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150 millilitres Water
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4 grams Agar-agar(If you do not have this, the taste will be the same but the texture will be a little more liquid)
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50 millilitres strawberry liqueur
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20 grams Sugar
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Yuzu Ice Cream
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880 millilitres Milk
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250 millilitres Cream
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65 grams powdered milk
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220 grams Sugar
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35 grams dextrose
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7 grams ice cream stabilizer
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4 yuzus
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Crumble
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100 grams Butter
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100 grams Sugar
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100 grams almond flour
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100 grams Flour
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Meringue
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50 grams egg whites
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100 grams Sugar
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Cheesecake
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800 millilitres Cream
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400 grams cottage cheese
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120 grams Sugar
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70 grams powdered milk
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2 Eggs
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1 vanilla podsliced lengthways, or 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
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Pastry
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200 grams icing sugar
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60 grams Egg Yolks3 yolks
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300 grams Buttersoft
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500 grams Flour
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pinch salt
Directions
Looking for a magnificent strawberry cheesecake recipe that will wow your family and friends? You are in the right place. This sophisticated dessert is amazing and will impress everyone without a doubt. Serve the cheesecake with Yuzu ice cream, meringue and strawberry puree.
Strawberry Gel
- Mix all the ingredients together and bring to boil and let cool.
- Once cold, blend with a hand blender and pass through a fine strainer to obtain a smooth texture.
Yuzu Ice Cream
- Make a hot infusion with the milk, cream plus 1⁄2 yuzu zest so that the milk and cream obtain the citrus flavour.
- Leave to cool.
- Mix together dries ingredients (powdered milk, sugar, dextrose, ice cream stabilizer)
- Dissolve the dry mixture into the cooled milk and cream infusion.
- Heat to 82 C and cool rapidly once it reaches the temperature. When cooked add the yuzu juice and the rest of the yuzu zest (depending on the taste)
- -Leave to mature for 12 – 24 hours
- -Pass through a sieve and put in ice cream machine.
Crumble
- Mix together all ingredients with your fingers to obtain a loose crumble and cook in the oven at 160 degrees C for approximately 10 to 15 minutes until it becomes slightly crunchy.
- Meringue
- Heat the egg white and sugar to 50 degrees C.
- Beat until firm.
- Put in a pastry-piping bag and pipe small meringues approximately the size of a grape.
- Dry in the oven slowly at approximately 80 degree C until they are dry.
Cheesecake
- Beat the cottage cheese (quark), cream and milk powder together.
- Whisk the eggs and sugar in a bowl until thick, pale and foamy, add the vanilla seed and fold in the cheese and cream mixture.
Pastry
- Mix everything together in a food blender.
- Roll out.
- Place in a lightly greased cake tin of approximately 28 cm in diameter.
- Pour the cheesecake mixture on the top.
- Cook in the oven for 25 minutes at 180 C.
- Leave to cool for 2-4 hours
Notes and Plating
- Should you wish to make mini strawberry cheesecakes like in the picture, use a cake cutter to cut your desired size.
- Add fresh strawberries and decorate the plate with puree, meringue, ice cream and sprinkle with crumble.