I love Mango Cheesecake, they do take some time but damn the end result worth everything. Although I love good old plain cheesecakes but a little Mango never hurt anyone, right?

The Peanut butter chocolate cheesecake which I made last year was epic, recipe here. So this time I wanted to surpass it lol so made the Mango version.

INGREDIENTS:

FOR BASE –

• Mix of biscuits ( I took bourbon, Marie, other crackers) – is s½ packets roughly
• Butter – 80-100gms (start with less and then add more if required)
• Sugar – If you want to, I did not because biscuits are super sweet anyway.

FOR FILLING –

• Mango puree – of 2 Mangoes (I took 3, don’t do that)
• Cream Cheese – 2 cups (make this at home from Paneer, super easy)
• Powdered Sugar – 100gm (people add 200gm, but mangoes are sweet, so is the base)
• Cream – 1 cup (I used Amul, no heavy cream in covid times)
• Agar Agar/Gelatin – 5 spoons or 3 sheets
• Water – ½ cup to mix Agar Agar/Gelatin

PROCEDURE –

• Use a food processor or a mixie for the full recipe for fasting things up.
• Put the biscuits in a processor and powder them.
• Add butter and mix again until they both combine and leave the sides of the processor.
• Take a detachable base tin or use a parchment paper on the base of a normal cake tin.  
• Put the biscuit mixture and press it down with hands or the base of a katori. I always make extra for the sides also. Keep the tin in fridge for an hour.
• Heat the water and add Agar Agar to it and it keep it aside for 10 minutes.
• Now in same processor, add cream cheese, powdered sugar, mango puree, cream and mix.
• Heat the agar agar mixture for 5 seconds again and immediately add to above mix.
• Mix everything one last time and pour over the cake mixture. Do not wait, as Agar Agar/Gelatin is a setting ingredient and you do not want to set in a processor.
• Put the cake in fridge and let it set overnight.

I will agree, the steps feel overwhelming but then if you want extraordinary results you need to put extraordinary hardwork too.

THOUGHTS:

My cake tin is huge; I don’t know what 17 year old Mehak was thinking. Probably she wanted to just bake big cakes that’s all. I like Big cakes and I cannot lie. Moreover, this cake came out huge and a tiny piece could have made you feel full. It was a lot for three for us as you cannot even share the food these days with neighbors. But we had a good week gorging on yummy desserts, so no complaints.

I decorated the cake with some fresh mangoes and cocoa powder. DM for cake order guys, there is a new baker in town lalallalalaaaaaaa.

If this recipe is too much hardwork for you, then check out the recipe for Lazy Cake here.