Quick fix: New York Top hat cheese cake

January 27, 2011 08:28 pm | Updated 08:28 pm IST

New York top hat cheese cake. Photo: Special Arrangement

New York top hat cheese cake. Photo: Special Arrangement

Ingredients:

Cream cheese: 125 gm

Castor sugar: 100 gm

Flour and fresh cream: 25 gm each

Yoghurt: 60 gm

Egg: 100 gm

Vanilla essence: Five ml

Lemon rind: Two

For Chocolate trifle topping

Biscuit crumbs: 100 gm

Castor sugar: 20 gm

Butter: 60 gm

Egg white: from half a egg

Method:

First mix the cream cheese and castor sugar nicely. Then add the egg slowly and whip till it becomes fluffy .

Next, add flour, yoghurt, fresh cream, vanilla essence and lemon rind. Keep mixing slowly.

Pour the well mixed ingredients on top of the biscuit base, which is put before in a baking tray and heated at a temperature of 200 degree C either in an oven or OTG.

Baking time is roughly 40 minutes. Take it out from the oven and cool and then apply the chocolate trifle on the top.

For garnishing, pipe some fresh cream and top it up with a cherry and mint leaf. If possible place a chocolate wafer cigar.

Chef Sheik Mohamed is a baker at the Hotel Gateway, Pasumalai, Madurai. Before joining here a year ago, he worked with Hotel GRT in Madurai. This Diploma Holder in Food Production from IHM, Chennai, is fond of soccer and photography.

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