Say Cheese at BITC

I've never made non-baked cheese cake before and was super excited when I found out we were gonna make it on Saturday. I guess the reason why I've never dealt with the non-bakes is because of the fact that gelatine is needed. Moreover, I would have to specially head out to buy whipping cream, yeah ok I'm done with the excuses...

Honestly, non-baked cheese cake ain't difficult to make at all! Just make the crust, pour in the cream cheese mixture and wah la! you're practically done! We made a pate sucre which is a sweet pastry dough, those used for fruit tarts. Pate Sucre is easy to make, the only downside is that time is needed for chilling, resting and baking the dough. There is of course an easier alternative and that would be mixing crushed biscuits with melted butter. 

The ingredients for the cream cheese are essentially cream cheese, eggs yolks, sugar, gelatine and whipping cream. We added a little orange concentrate as we were making an orange cheesecake that day. I guess the best part about making non-bake cheese cake is that you need not be afraid of over mixing the cream cheese mixture, just turn on the machine and start mixing :)

Due to the lack of time, we weren't able to do plating work. However, Chef Teo did a few plating to demonstrate the ways to go about decorating our dessert.

Cheesecake with Tuile and Fruits.

We also made a Trifle that day. Trifle is essentially a dessert made with custard, sponge cake and fruit jelly. We used raspberry jelly as BITC ran out of blueberries. The trifle was really easy to make too as there was no baking required and all we needed to do is to whip up the custard.

Trifle

I was glad I dabbled with non-baked goodies as it was super convenient to make and can be easily replicated at home.  However, with regards to taste, baked cheesecake wins hands down. I dislike the jelliness of the cream cheese and the awful taste of the gelatine. I didn't quite find the cheesecake as smooth as it should be and Mummy found that it tasted alittle too fake. The trifle was much better but I found it too sweet and also disliked the jelly topping. All in all, I would definitely try to replicate this at home but maybe reducing the amount of Gelatine the next time round.

Bon Appetit :)