Featherlight Cheesecake

Recipe adapted from Alex Goh - Fantastic Cheesecake

My BOYS loooooove this cheesecake!... Gone in one seating. Pant pant... that means I have to bake them again :)

It's delightfully easy to make, no fuss really! And it tastes great!... Just the right Cheesey taste... not too sweet, and not at all heavy / dense -- quite unlike those New York Cheesecake. Afterall,  it is called "Featherlight" and it truly lives up to its name!

Ingredients:

250gm Milk
20gm Butter
125gm Cream Cheese
50gm Flour (I used plain flour)
3 Egg Yolks
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 Egg Whites
1/8 tsp Cream of Tartar
80gm Sugar
pinch of salt
1 tsp Coffee Emulco


Here's what I did:

1. I used a 20cm springform round pan. Line base with baking paper, Wrap aluminium foil round the pan, and prepare a water-bath tray.

2. In a mixing bowl, cream cream cheese until smooth.

3. Bring Butter and Milk to a low boil, and combine with creamed cream cheese. Mix until well blended.

4. Add flour and mix until well combined. Add in egg yolks and vanilla essence. Mix until well blended.

5. In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites until foamy, add in pinch of salt and cream of tartar. Continue to beat till soft peak.

6. Add in sugar in 3 successions. Continue beating until stiff.

7. Pour in 1/3 of the egg white into the Cream Cheese mixture and fold in gently but quickly.

8. Pour all of the Cream Cheese mixture into the remaining egg white, fold in till well combined.

9. Reserve about 2tbs of the batter. Add in 1 tsp of coffee emulco into this. Stir and mix well.

10. Pour the Cheese batter into pan. Drip the coffee batter on top. Swirl with a butter knife to make marble pattern.

11. Bake in (hot) water bath at 160deg for 50-60mins. Or until centre is set and golden brown. Insert a toothpick to test. Toothpick should come out clean.

12. With a knife, slice the cake away from the side of the pan (else, it will shrink greatly). Remove pan from water bath tray, and return cake (still in pan) into oven with door ajar to cool. (This step should not take more than 30 sec; so work fast!)

13. Chill in fridge and serve.

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