Mango Cheese Cake

Mango Cheese Cake

My daughter- in- law,  Dwitiya Ajanahalli bakes one of the best mango cheese cakes.  It is perfect in every sense. I am posting her recipe and picture of the cake she baked recently. Go ahead and try it.

Ingredients:

·         2 cups graham cracker crumbs (Or buy graham cracker and grind in mixer)

·         1/4 cup sugar

·         8 tablespoons butter, room temp

·         2 large ripe mangoes, cubed and mango pulp from Indian store

·         3 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese (or 1/3 rd less fat cream cheese), softened -room temp

·         1  cup sugar

·         3 teaspoons vanilla extract

·         3 large eggs

·         Garnishes: fresh mango slices and strawberries

Preparation:

·         1. Stir together first 3 ingredients in a bowl; press into bottom and 1-inch up sides of a buttered 9-inch spring form pan. Bake at 325º for 11 minutes (or until it start to brown a bit). Remove from oven, and set aside.

·        2.  Process mangoes in food processor until pureed.  With a mixer, beat cream cheese , 1  cup sugar, and vanilla until fluffy . Beat in eggs 1 at a time, mixing until yellow disappears . Stir in mango puree and also put  3/4 cup of the store bought pulp (f you do not have fresh mangoes use 1 cup of the store bought pulp.

·      3.    Pour batter into prepared crust. Bake at 325º for 1 hour. Turn off oven and leave in the oven for 1 hour. Cool at room temperature for 4 hours. The cheesecake should start separating from the edges. Cool in the refrigerator Garnish, if desired.

4. Mango Glaze on top:

8 table spoon water

1/4 cup mango pulp

3 table spoon sugar

fresh lemon juice (1/2 lemon 

Mix and heat the above ingredients for 10 mins on medium flame with constant stirring. Cool and then pour on the cake for a nice mango glaze on top

·         Make Sure to use a 9 inches springform round cheesecake baking container 

Also it is very imp to cool the cake slowly or it cracks....