Mango Cheese Cake (Egg Less)
June 21st, 2011 filed under Desserts
Fresh ripe mangoes are used to make this light and refreshing cheesecake. It makes for an amazing presentation and tastes just as exotic as it looks. The egg-less recipe is delightfully delicious and can be enjoyed by just about everyone.
Recipe will serve 8.
Ingredients:
Crust
- 16 graham cracker squares, crushed (approx. 1 cup of crumbs)
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1/3 cup melted unsalted butter
Filling
- 12 oz cream cheese at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 large ripe mango
For Garnish
- 8 thin mango slices
- 2 strawberries cut into 4 pieces each
- Few mint leaves
Method
Crust
- Preheat oven to 350 degree F.
- Add broken graham crackers, sugar and butter to a food processor. Mix well until looks nicely crumbled, takes approx. 30 seconds.
- Place graham cracker mix into a 9” pie plate, spread evenly and press down firmly.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 6 minutes, on the medium rack.
Filling
- Prepare mango by peeling and chopping into chunks.
- Add mango chunks, cream cheese, sugar, and cornstarch to the food processor. Mix for 20 seconds, until it is smooth in texture. Do not mix for too long.
- Pour the mixture over the pie crust and bake for 35 minutes at 350 degrees F. The surface should look dry and cooked.
- Let the cheesecake cool and then refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving.
- Garnish the cheesecake with mango slices, strawberries and mint leaves.
Amrita,
sometimes there are some things that just can not be substituted and cream cheese is one of them. It is what defines a cheesecake. Fresh paneer doesn’t even come close ad it doesnt have the same consistancy, texture,etc… I think you’d be wasting time and ingredients to try as this will not turn out.
Hi Manjula Aunty,
I was wondering if cream cheese can be substituted with something else, maybe make fresh paneer and use that?
Thanks.
Amrita
Hi Aunty,
Thank you for the recipe. i wanted to know what is creme cheese? is it readily avaialble in India? do we have some other substitute for it?
thanks
I made this recipe last week. We all loved it. My daughters absolutely loved it. They are begging me to do it again today. Thank you.
Aunty,
This looks so yummy.Cant wait to try it soon. If I dont have a food processor can I make the filling and cracker base in a mixer-grinder. If not then what is the alternative.
Thanks
Priya,
Crackers you may do in mixer but mango and cream cheese just mix using a spoon, you do not want to whip the mango and cheese.
Priya,
You might try a hand mixer on high to beat the cream cheese mixture… Using a blender would not produce a good result because the inside surface is too small and you won’t get a light fluffy filling. Instead of fresh mango, I bet trying it with a little mango pulp would be good as well!
Hi Aunty,
I made this and taste-wise it came out perfect ( I had others try it as well!) but the look of it was not really so presentable. The crust didnt rise much on the sides and when I tried taking the cake out of the pan (used a regular cake pan), it crumbled into 4 pieces – I was trying to transfer it into a disposable tin so I could take it to a friend’s birthday. Please help as I am not sure what went wrong.
Thanks,
Lavina
Lavina,
In this recipe crust doesn’t rise stays the same and you can not pick up the whole cake in one piece you need to slice them and then pick up slice by slice.
Dear Aunty,
I also tried the recipe, everything came out well except the biscuits got burned on the sides. i used the middle tray….is there anyway i can avoid the biscuits from getting burnt?…would be it too much butter? how much would 1/3 cup butter be in grams?…
thanks much, best, D
ps also have tried yr apple crumble many many times
thanks..everyone loves it and its so easy and fast….once i ran out of oatmeal and used biscuits and raisins *with walnuts and it also came out really well..
Hi,
To avoid burning of the biscuits at the bottom of the cake pan–use a bundt cake pan and cover the sides of the pan with alluminium foil .Now place the alluminium foil covered bundt cake pan in a big oven safe tray half way filled with water and bake the cheese cake.
If my instructions are confusing-It is shown in food network,you can watch the video.
Sorry for the mistake.It is not a bundt cake pan.It is a springform pan tha you need to use.
Aunty, I made this yesterday. But when I served it, I noticed that the graham crust had burnt and was black at the bottom. Could you tell me why this happened? I followed your instructions carefully.
The mango cheesecake top was fine though.
Chandni,
May be you baked the cake on lower rack of oven.
Hi,
I wanted to know if instead of baking , can we refrigerate it? I am planning to prepare this cake for some guests during the weekend.
thanks
Lakshmi,
You will need to bake
Hello Aunty
from where can we buy unsalted butterand in wat brand
wat is graham?