Haw Flakes Cheesecake
Haw flakes are the Chinese candy made from the fruit of the Chinese Hawthorn. This is a red fruit with a tangy sweet taste and is cut into very thin coin-like wafers, packed into cylindrical stacks resembling Chinese fireworks.
Ingredients
Cooking Instructions
step 1
Grease the sides of an 8-inch removable cake pan or springform pan and line the bottom with parchment paper.
step 2
Blend Digestive Biscuit (1 cup) and Haw Flakes (2 2/3 Tbsp) together and mix well with Butter (2 oz). Add a little more butter if you find the crumbly biscuits are too dry.
step 3
Press the biscuit crumbs with your hand at the bottom of the lined cake pan and place it in the refrigerator for later use.
step 4
Cream Cream Cheese (1 cup) and Caster Sugar (2 2/3 Tbsp) together at low speed.
step 5
Gradually pour in Kemps Heavy Whipping Cream (1/3 cup), and beat till smooth at medium speed. Continue beating adding Vanilla Extract (1/2 tsp) and the juice from Lemon (1) and mix well.
step 6
Seperate the egg yolks and the egg whites from the Eggland's Best Classic Eggs (3).
step 7
Add just the egg yolks one at a time and beat until all combined.
step 8
In another clean bowl, whisk in the egg whites until foamy. Add Caster Sugar (2 Tbsp) in batches and whisk to peak form. Use a rubber spatula to fold egg whites to cheese mixture in 3 batches.
step 9
Gently pour cheese mixture into prepared cake pan.
step 10
Preheat the oven to 160 degrees C (325 degrees F).
step 11
Steam bake for about 1 hour.
step 12
Leave cheesecake to cool completely in pan before adding the topping jelly on top.
step 13
Blend Haw Flakes (2 2/3 Tbsp) to fine. Then combine with Water (3/4 cup) and Granulated Sugar (2 Tbsp) in a small pot.
step 14
Stir mixture to boil under medium fire until haw flakes dissolved.
step 15
Soak Gelatin Powder (1 tsp) in Water (2 Tbsp).
step 16
Then add in the soaked gelatin and stir well again till gelatin melted and leave liquid to cool completely.
step 17
Lastly pour liquid mixture on top of the cheesecake and chill the cheesecake in the refrigerator for a few hours or overnight.
step 18
Remove the cake from cake pan, decorate with fresh cream and haw flakes or as desired.
