This cheese cake is delicious and does not require any baking. It is light, creamy and with just the right amount of sweetness.
- 1 pack of Gullon Creme Tropical biscuits ~ 32 petite biscuits (you can use graham crackers, or digestive cookies or Petite biscuit crumbs)
- These will yield 2 cups of crumbs
- 1/3 cup of butter
- 1/4 cup of Organic Coconut Sugar (or brown sugar)
- 2 8 oz packs of cream cheese
- 2 packets of unflavored gelatin
- 1/2 cup of water
- Juice for 1 fresh lime
- 16 oz of Mango flavored Lifeway Kefir low fat yogurt smoothie (you can use sour cream, or heavy cream if this is not available)
- 16 oz of Mango pulp (Sweetened canned available at Indian grocer)
- 3/4 cup to 1 cup of sugar (to desired sweetness)
- 1 mango for garnish
- You will need a spring form cake pan for this
- Also will need few fresh strawberry or raspberry for garnish.
- will need 1 table spoon of powdered sugar and 1 table spoon of granulated sugar for sliced strawberries.
- Few mint leaves for garnish.
- Crush the biscuits or graham cracker in food processor.
- Mix melted butter and coconut sugar or brow sugar.
- Add biscuits crumbs to this and press the mixture on bottom of spring form cake pan.
- Refrigerate while you prepare the batter.
- Boil 1/2 cup of water and mix unflavored gelatin until dissolved.
- Take out any lumps that don't dissolve.
- In a food processor, mix softened cream cheese, lime juice.
- Mix mango pulp and Kefir mango smoothie or fresh creme and add this to lime and cream cheese.
- Add gelatin mix.
- Mix in food processor until smooth.
- Add sugar.
- For variation you can add melted white chocolate in the batter. (you may have to adjust the amout of sugar then)
- Mix until batter is smooth.
- Pour the batter in to the spring form with crumbs pressed in the bottom.
- Refrigerate it for 6-8 hours.
- When cake is set take it out of fridge.
- Peel and slice mango to desired sizes pieces, cubes or slices.
- Slice strawberries and mix with sugar toss well.
- Decorate the cake with mango slices and strawberries slices.
- Refrigerate again until ready to serve.
- Can garnish it with few mint leaves for color.
- Place the spring form pan on serving cake platter and open the spring form pan
Enjoy !!
Recipe and Photographs by Surekha.
