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Guava Cheesecake

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Ingredients
  

Base
  • 2.5 cups Oreo cookie crumbs
  • 1/2 - 3/4 cup melted Butter
Batter
  • 500 gms of cream Cheese Add
  • 1 cup Marscarpone Cheese
  • 300 ml Condensed Milk
  • 2 pkgs 14 gms Gelatin dissolved in hot water
  • 2 tbsps Sugar optional
  • 1/2 cup Pieces of Guava Cheese + extra for topping
Guava Jelly
  • 400 gms Guavas
  • Juice of 1/2 Lime
  • 3/4 cup of sugar
  • Tiny drop food coloring

Method
 

  1. Mix the butter slowly with the Oreo crumbs till they are moist and spread it into the base of a lined 10 inch springform pan and pack it down and chill for 20 mins
  2. Beat the cream cheese and add in the marscapone and condensed milk
  3. Mix the gelatin with hot water and allow to cool
  4. Add the sugar and beat and drizzle in the gelatin, mixing slowly
  5. Fold in the Guava cheese pieces and pour this on top of the base
  6. Give the pan a tap to release any air bubbles
  7. Chill for a 6 hours to overnight
  8. To make the jelly, pressure cook the guavas for 3 mins (longer time if not fully ripe)
  9. Puree the fruit and press it through a sieve
  10. Measure the paste and add it to a pot with the same quantity of sugar
  11. Add the lime juice
  12. Mix till the sugar dissolves and the mixture starts to thicken
  13. Add a tiny drop of red or pink food colouring
  14. Allow the jelly to cool and pour over the top of the cheesecake and spread
  15. Add some more Guava cheese pieces
  16. Set for another 30 mins