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Pineapple cheesecake

Pineapple cheesecake

1 serving

An extravagant indulgence at any event – our recipe for Pineapple cheesecake bears resemblance to a snow-dusted landscape of candied delights. Resting on a chip-crisp crust of roasted almonds and a homemade crumble, a filling of pineapple cheese and coconut makes this a treat worth savoring in with loved ones.

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ingredients

Crust

  • 1¾ ounces almonds
  • 14 digestive biscuits
  • 1¾ ounces soft butter

Cream cheese filling

  • 8¾ ounces Castello® Cream cheese with pineapple
  • 7 ounces cream cheese, plain
  • 8,1 ounces creme fraiche
  • 3½ ounces sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 6 sheets of gelatine
  • 1 cup pineapple juice
  • juice from half a lime fruits
  • 2 cups coconuts

Chocolate shavings

  • 14 ounces dark chocolate
  • 3½ ounces white chocolate

preparation

Preparation

Crust

1 For the crust, chop almonds and biscuits in a blender.

2. Add butter and form into a uniform mass.

3. Add the mass to a round baking tin and bake at 180 ° C for about 10 min.

4. Let it cool down until completely cold.

Cream Cheese filling

5. For the Cream Cheese filling, add the gelatin in a bowl of cold water for about 5 minutes.

6. Whip together Cream Cheese, sour cream and vanilla sugar.

7. Mix the gelatin with about 0.5 dl hot water (just boil some water in a kettle, squeeze the water out of the gelatin and put it in a small bowl with hot water. Then stir until it is completely melted).

8. Add lime juice, pineapple nectar and a little bit of the cheese mixture into the gelatin to temper it.

9. Pour the gelatin in the cheese mixture and whisk together well.

10. Then pour into the cold baking tin with the biscuit-bottom and let it stand in the refrigerator for a few hours (preferably overnight).

Chocolate shavings

11. For the chocolate shavings, start by melting and tempering the dark chocolate.

12. Pour the melted chocolate in a tin.

13. Melt and temper the white chocolate.

14. Sprinkle the white chocolate over the dark in the form of a fork. Then take a toothpick and make "swirls" in the chocolate.

15. Cool down in the refrigerator.

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