Matcha durian cheesecake

Recipe from: JunZhi’s Blog

Original Recipe

Ingredients (for 6-inch square mode (loose bottom)):

To make the sponge cake:

1. Seperate the egg yolk and egg white.

2. Whisk 20g granulated sugar with the egg yolks until slightly fluffy.

3. Pour 30g sugar 3 times into the egg white, beat until soft peak form.

4. Pour small amount of egg white into egg yolk mixture and blend with a spatula.

5. Pour the mixture in 4 into the remaining egg white mixture. Carefully incorporate using a spatula.

6. Sift flour into mixture 5, blend with a spatula until fully combined.

7. Pour the mixture in 6 into a piping bag with a round tip, pipe 2 round cake base onto a baking sheet. The sheets should be a little bigger than a 6-inch mode.

8. Bake in the preheated oven at 180C for 10 min.

9. Cut the cake base to fit the mode.

To make the durian Cheese filling:

1. Put egg yolks, rum, milk, and sugar in a bowl. Whisk while heating the bowl on a double boiler until the mixture become foam like (about 3-5 min). Set aside.

2. Put durian meat into a microwave safe bowl, heat for 1 min on high-heat.

3. Pour 1 and 2 into a food processor, beat until smooth.

4. Beat room temperature cream cheese until smooth. Pour 1/3 of durian mixture in 3 into the cream cheese, whisk until combine. Repeat 3 times until all durain mixture are used and the durian cheese mixture become smooth.

5. Add a little water to soak the sheet gelatin for 5 min. Squeeze out the water. Microwave the gelatin for around 10s (until liquid like).

6. Pour liquid gelatin into durian cheese mixture. Blend until fully incorporated.

7. Put mixture 6 into the fridge for 5-10 min, until it harden a bit.

8. Beat heavy cream until soft peak. Carefully combine mixture 6 with heavy cream using a spatula.

Assemble:

1. Put one cake sheet into the mode, pour half of the durian cheese filling. Put another cake sheet on it and pour the rest of filling on top of it.

2. Smooth the top of the cake and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight.

3. Make the matcha durian paste while the cake is harden up. (Pour everything except matcha powder into a food processor and blend until smooth. Pour the mixture into a small pot and heat until boiling. Turn off the heat, blend in the matcha powder.)

4. Using a hot towel or a hair dryer to get the cake out of the mold.

5. Cut into pieces, serve with some matcha durian paste.